THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 November 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

4 [ELECTRIC TELKGIIAra -COi'YIUGHT.] Australia-New Zealand Cable Service. I'Ori IT lO.V OF R U.M AXIA. Australia-New Zealand Cable Service. Bucharest, Nov. 13. Military critics consider that the Austro-Genmui efforts to force the Carpathians are gradually slackening, The troops are fatigued and are unlikely to progress further unless strong ly reinforced. The-German failure to break the barrSer was due, firstly, to the stubborn resistance and capacity for mountain warfare of the Rumanians, also to the enemy's inability to use heavy artillery in the passes^.

The Rumanians meanwhile are rapidly improving and are becoming a first-class fighting machine. The German plans in Jiul, which so badly miscarried, were well conceived but faultily executed. They aimed at cutting off the first Rumanian army, The main body of the enemy, advancing too fast for its supporting column, was litself threatened' with 'envelopment and compelled to hack out with heavy losses. Rome. Nov, 12. The Messagem's Petrograd correspondent states that the Russians threw back enemy detachments which crossed the Danube at Cernavoda. Another report states that the enemy has retired in the Dobruja fifty kilometres (approximately 31 nrffles), southward.

There is desperate fighting on the whole Transylvanian front with heavy losses to the enemy, who continues to receiver reinforcements, especially; at Predeal Pass. London, Nov. 13. A ißumartfau communique announces successes in the northern front. The Rumanians have assumed the offensive on the Moldavia front and have advanced in the Dobnija to the line Tokalo-Oisme-Granasuf. ON THE SOMME. London, Nov. 13. Sir Douglas Haig reports :— Enemy artillery is active at Los Boeufs and 'Eaucourt I'Abbaye. "We twice discharged gas north of the Anore. Paris. Xov. 13. A communique states:— North of the Somme we completed the conquest of Saillisel. We counted many German dead. There was the usual artillery activ't.v elsewhere.