ROUMANIA

Nelson Evening Mail, 30 September 1916, Page 5

ROUMANIA

THE REICHSTAG

THE FIGHTING REVIEWED

THE BUCHAREST AIR RAIDS. SEVENTY-FIVE FATALITIES. (Official.) BUCHAREST, Sept. 28. Seventy-five persons were killed and many were injured by the enemy airraids. The victims were mostly women and childx-en. ALLIED SUCCESSES. (Rec. Sept. 30, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 29. A French communique says :The Bulgars renewed attacks at KaJmacklan. The Serbians completely arrested an attack in the Brod region. Our aeroplanes bombed Monastir. The War Office at Salonika reports that the enemy shelled Bridges at Orljak and Kopriva, bub enemv patrols failed in an attempt to approach Kopriva. Our artillery dispersed working parties near Ormanli. Patrol encounters in the Neohori area ended in our favour.

THE SESSION OPENED. WAR OUTLOOK DECLARED TO BE SATISFACTORY. CHANCELLOR LESS HOPEFUL. {Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) BERLIN.. Sept. 28. The Reichstag was crowded when the session opened, all the diplomats being present. Hen* Kaempf, the President, in his opening speech, declared that thp military economic, and political war was at the zenith, and a violent struggle was proceeding on all the fronts for a decision. German's position was satisfactory in every respect. He referred to the Deutschland and the Bremen and read telegrams exchanged with the Kaiser at the beginning of the third year of the ■war. Dr von Bethman Hollwegg then spoke amidst unbroken attention. BERLIN, Sept, 29. Dr von Bethmann Hollwegg's speech was well received. He bitterly assailed England. His tone, however, was less hopeful and confident than in his former utterances. Dr von Bethmann Hollweg, reviewing Italy's intervention, remarked that the thumb screw was used by England with her usual recknessness against neutrals. The Allies were too strong, and Italy was compelled to yield. Her warfare depended upon English coal and money. He admitted that England also aspired to Balkan territories within the natural sphere of Greek interest. Discussing Roumania, Dr von Bethmann Hollweg declared that King Carol at the outset of the war was altogether in favour of acting in accordance with the treaties joining Roumania to AustroGermany. but he was over-ruled. He died from the shock of the consciousness that Roumania was a traitor to the Central Powers. Dr von Bethmann Hollweg accused M. Bratiano, after the fall of Lemberg, of entering without his Sovereign's knowledge into a- treaty of neutrality with Russia. He insinuated that M. Bratiano intrigued last August with the Entente to secure territory at Serbia's ultimate expense. The King, almost up to tho time of Roumania's intervention, gave Germany binding assurances of neutrality, and in reply to Germany's warnings he declined to 'believe that M. Bratiano was binding himself to the Entente.

OUTCRY AGAINST THE CHANCELLOR.

LONDON. Sept. 28

A wireless message from Zurich says it is now known in Germany that Count Reventlow was forbidden to publish articles not approved l>y the censor, owing to his strong criticism of Hindenburg in the Deutsche Tajres Zeitung. An issue was confiscated and ; the paper was not allowed to appear for a whole week.

The attacks on Germany's idol "were ■due to the official nress triumphantly announcing that- Hindenburg supported Hollweg in rejecting unrestrained submarine All the German stalwarts expected that Hinden'burfr "would insist upon an immediate renewal of un-der-water frightfulness, and liis acquiescence in the Chancellor's more prudent policy has plunged the Pan-German fireeaters into a paroxysm of depair and rage.

Count Reventlow's attacks are a symjtom of a widespread outcry against Hindenburg and in favour of the policy of the iron hand.

'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rec. Sept. 30. 9.30 a.m.) ; LONDON. Sept. 29. In the Reichstag Herr Bethmann Holweg referred to the fighting. He admitted that the Anglo-French successes were pressing the German lines back, and inflicting heavy losses of men and material, but he asserted that they had failed in their object of rolling up the German front. He was confident that they would never get through, even as little as the Russians in the East had done, while the repulse of the Allied attacks in the south-east had frustrated the great Entente plan to sever connection between Germany and the Orient by the_ separate conqtiest of Turkey, Bulgaria, and Austria-Hungary. He declared that the Entente's lust for conquest was responsible for the daily heaping of mountains of corpses, as Germany had already declared her readiness for peace. He asked if anyone in Germany dared now to demand peace in the face of M. Briand's declaration. He indignantly denied that the Kaiser exercised influence with the Czar to prevent Russia's development in the direction of freedom, 'but he denounced Britain as wanting more than booty. After bleedingFrance to death and making her allies financially and economically her slaves and subjecting European neutrals to her orders, Britain wants to see Germany militarily boycotted and condemned' to lasting sickliness in order to realise the dream of British world supremacy. Great Britain was fighting for world supremacy with an expenditure of strength unexampled in history, breaking one international lsw after another. Great Britain was the most fierce and obstinate enemy. Any German statesman hesitating to use against this enemy every available instrument to shorten the war should Abe \ hanged. The Chancellor expressed disgust and contempt for the allegations that all the means for fighting had not been employed to the fullest possible extent. CERMANSUBMARINES FOUR VESSELS SUNK . (Published in The Times.)

LONDON, Sept. 29. The British vessels Thurso and Stathe Newby, the Norwegian ship Knuthilde, and the Swedish ship Berguella have 'been sunk.

SOLDIERS INSPECTION BY THE KING. (Australian and N.Z Cable Association., LONDON, Sect. 28. The King ihas issued 1 a special order addressed' to the Australian and New Zealand l -officers, noni-corrumissioned officers and l men', as follows r—-"To-day I inspected for the first "time in this country tine troops of my Dominions, Australia and) New Zealand. These successive contingents are a recognition by the Dominions of their obligation's .to the common defence of the EmpiTe. I wag .particularly impressed 1 .by .the soldierly appearance and physique of the men, while the warmhearted 'greeitirag they accorded 1 mie on my departure touchecF me deeply. Tlie keen spirit all rawkfe shows that the officers and men realise what caref/ul training and pftv'ct discipline a.re necessary -to reach that high standard of efficiency demanded by modern war. "Make snood use of your time at Salisbury Pilfcum, and reiinforce the fighting line with successors worthy of those who madU famous the name Anzac. I shall ever watch with, -interest your progress and' -well 'being.."