RUMANIAN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2960, 26 December 1916, Page 5

RUMANIAN FRONT

ALLIES BEGIN THE OFFENSIVE Petrograd, December 22. Recent German attacks in Rumania were ineffective. An offensive by the llusso-Rumaiuan advanced parties is commencing. ..The, flanks of the army are solidly based in the Dorna Vatra region and on the left bank of the Danube. The Dobrudja troops have retired to previously _ fortified positions, in conformity with the general retreat.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' TULCEA OCCUPIED (Rec. December 25, 0.20 a.m.) r . „ London, December 23. A German communique claims' the occupation of Tulcea, on the Lower Danube. Ans.-N.Z. Cable As6ii.Reuter. - retreaTcqniinues DRIVEN OUT OF DOBRUDJA (Rec. December 25, 11.5 p.m.) London, December 2d. Berlin Official.—ln the Dobrudja we cleared the enemy to the region between Macin and isaccea. A Russian communique says:—The enemy drove back our advance guards north-west, west, and south-west of Rumucu Sarat (in Northern . Wallachia). We continue to fall back' northward of the Dobrudja.—Aus^-N.Z. , Cable Aasn-Ileuter. A DARING ATTACK V ON ADVANCING BULGARS (Rec. December 23, 8.6 p.m.). London, December 22. A Russian communique says: "On the Rumanian front the enemy attempts to take the offensive were repulsed._ Our Dobrudja' detachments nave withdrawn northwards, after stubbornly resisting superior forces on the whole front. A regiment daringly attacked advancing Bulgars, who were thrown into' a lake and mostly drown-ed."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn-Reuter. OIL WELLS AND REFINERIES DESTROYED BY ORDERS ~ ' (Rec. December 23, 8.5 p.m.) . London, December 22. A British military mission satisfactorily reports the "destruction, ■ under the Rumanian Government's orders, of the oil wells and. refineries in the chief centres. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn-Reuter.