SITUATION APPARENTLY LESS FAVOURABLE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2939, 27 November 1916, Page 5

SITUATION APPARENTLY LESS FAVOURABLE

BATTLE IN THE BALKANS

ENEMY SEVERELY BEATEN

PIRATES SINK ANOTHER HOSPITAL SHIP

The news from tho Rumanian theatre of the war to-day is lesfffar* ourable than it lias been since tie commencement of the German-Bulgar offensive. The enemy's armies have been heavily reinforced, and thus enabled to increase the pressure, has extended his recent success. Von Mackensen. has crossed the Danube at certain points, and this move, It is thought, may develop into, a serious menace to the Rumanian flank on the Alt. One critic thinks that a large part of the Germans' success ia only . apparent, as they cannot hope to achieve anything so far from their base of supplies. Add to this the success of the Allies in the Balkans, where a desperate counter-attack, launched by combined German-Bulgar. forces, has just been heavily defeated, with very serious loss to the enemy. The Allies' naval and military commanders-in-chief in the Near East have each warned the Greek Government that the time for temporising has passed, and that certain matters which the Allies desire to bo attended to must be attended to. The German sea pirates havo just added another British hospital ship—carrying wounded this time—to their reeking list of infamous murders. Almost within sight of the spot where the Britannic was sent to the bottom the Braemar Castle has been . sunk. . '