Roumania

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 23 September 1916, Page 6

Roumania

ROUMANIAN OFFENSIVE RESUMED. ADVANCE IN TRANSYLVANIA. Press Association— Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams r Bucharest, September -2. A communique states: The RussoRoumanians have victoriously resumed the offensive on the Dobrudja. the battle began on the loth increased in fury till the evening of the 19th, when the enemy was crushed, and on the 20th withdrew southwards. The report mentions that the enemy included Turks; who burned the villages on the line of their retreat. Roumanian forces have entered Szekely Udvarhely, fifty miles northeast of Brasso. (Szekely Udvarhely, is the capital of Udvrhely 65 miles north-east of Hermannstadt; population, 8000.) BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. ' i ; * Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. CabJe Association. London, September 22. Mr Fyfe, writing from Bucharest, states, that, the Bulgarians are murdering prisoners wholesale, aria indescribably mutilating the corpses of soldiers, women and children, which are daily being washed up the Danube. The Roumanians, realising the terrible, nature of their death if they an fa ken prisoner, intend to give no quart*