DETAILS OF THE ATTACK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2914, 28 October 1916, Page 9

DETAILS OF THE ATTACK

.'." BUM^NIAN ; SITUATION .NORWAY AND GERMANY position approaching ■ :': :: : a crisis-.■'', ■■ '-v-.; -—■■ •• • ■ ■ ■ I '.'■■'.'■('. BRITISH SUNK MOST OF GREW REPORTED LOST Extreme tension still reigns in tho Rumanian, campaigns. Some ground has been lost in the mountain valleys inside the Wallachian frontier, where a stout resistance ig heing offered to the enemy's pow- - erf ul attacks.-On the' Moldavian frontier the'Buma'iiians are more ■- than holding their own. It is now reported that the great Cernavoda .bridge, was blqwn:up as an incident in the Rumanian retirement northward through the Dobrudja and across the Danube. Mr. Asquith has grven. an.assurance that the Allies are coricertedjy taking niea- • 6ures; to render all possible assistance-to Rumania. Further unsuccessful and very costly'counter-attacks have been made by the Gcr- ■'. mans' on the. Verdun front, but no very unusual event is Teported in ■-the Somme / region'. More ground has been gained By the Allies in Macedonia. The situation as between Germany and Norway is said to be approaching a crisis. Inspired Berlin newspapers-are making barely ' veiled threats of war on the Scandinavian State. The ''New York ' * -Times" publishes detailed charges that Germany is methodically, and on an extended scale, inoculating prisoners of war with tuberculosis • with a view.to returning them to their own countries to spread the disease broadcast. ;