THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 October 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

LELiSCXIUL' TELliOUAl'fl — COI'TUIOHT.j ;Auatralia-jSevv ZeUaxd Cable Service.) THE ATTACK ON RUMANIA. Bucharest, Oct. '18. A co nun unique states: — We repulsed' attacks westward of Talges and Bubacz, taking prisoners. Fighting in the Titus valley continues. All the enemy attacks in the Uzul valley were sanguinarily repulsed. Beyond the frontier violent attacks and counter-attacks continue in the O.stuza valley with heavy enemy losses. There were minor engagements in the Vrnncpa region westward of the frontier. TRe : nemy were repulsed in the Busscv valky and compelled to withdraw the'.r lines a kilometre. There is an intense artillery duel at Predoal and violent engagements at Mnteias. We repulse 1 attacks at Montrobul | in the Alt Valley, taking prisoners I and machine guns. London. Oct. 18. The latest Bucharest telegrams bring better news. The Rumanians are r -- lining the offensive in the Pre-' deal Pass and are pursuing the enemy along the Hungarian slopes. Even the German messages via Switzerland admit the desperate Rumanian resistance in the passes south of Brasso. A Vienna telegram states that great Russo-Ilumanian forces have arrived at all the Balkan fronts. Generals Falkenhnyn and Mackensen have suspended operations and are awaiting reinforcements from the other fronts and Turkey. For the moment the German commanders have been placed oil the defensive. The Daily Telegraph's Petrogradi correspondent says that a. never-ceasing battle continues from the Pripet to the Rumanian frontier and 1 is apparently ,reaching a climax. The official 'organ, of the Russian General Staff says that along the whole of Brusiloff's front the shock of millions of men continue®. The results promise to be important.

THE WEST FRONT. I London, October 19. Sir Douglas Haig reports:— This morning's attacks extended on a fronth northward of Guedecourt and towards Buttejarlencourt. Our aircraft on Tuesday made many rrconnnisances and carried out three bombing raids. A railway station and building were diamaged and a train was hit and derailed. Four enemy machines were driven down and damaged and a fifth fell into a lake. Four of our machines have not returned.

Paris, October 18. A communique states We raptured the whole of SaillySallis'l. and expelled the enemy from tlie crests to the north-eastward of the village. We carriedi with a rash the first German line along the whole of the Masonette-Biaches front southward of the Somme. Pnriis, October 19. A communique states:— On the right bank of the Vardar we carried trenches to a depth of four hundred yards. The Serbians continue to progress on the north-western slopes of Dobropolje. Turkish continents' hare "readied the lower Struma.