MILITARY MACHINE IN PERFECT ORDER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2866, 2 September 1916, Page 9

MILITARY MACHINE IN PERFECT ORDER

■ - ■ V 'V' ■ ■ : : ■ ■- ALL TEE PASSES, : FORCED ; . « — : r— , BULGARIA'S ATTITODE' CAUSING ■ ,' NEUTRALITY OF IEECE : '.: , ;; ALLIES READY 50 TAKE THE -OFFENSIVE , / ' Ampl© proof is now afforded of the fact that the Rumanian - -.'Ariny has opened its campaign with, brilliant success. , Profiting by the enemy's weakness in .Hungary,' it has quickly penetrated a ' mountain barrier, ;almost'. a'si.forrnjdable as.' that .. by ' which the, . . Italians'aro'.faced.'m.' their main campaign, and the invasion of 'Transylvania, bids fair to develop rapidly. ■ • Decisive developments are still awaited in the-southern part of the Balkan . Peninsula. As news stands, however,- Bulgaria: has not'yet declared , war on Rumania, and, according to one report;" unconfirmed meantime, 'the retreating from.;the western part, of tho Greek " frontier in the direction o'f'.'Moriastir.' The possibility still' exists-' tliat Bulgarit"may submit rather than■ fight.'.'lt is now officially -reported-that'Russian-troops' are advancing' .through the Dobruja 1 i on, the northern confines-of Bulgaria. .No big developments are reported in t-hb mam theatres, but it is suggested that von Hindenburg may attempt' kn offensive, possibly' in the Easterly theatre.