Roumania

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 16 October 1916, Page 8

Roumania

ACTIVE OPERATIONS.

THE ENEMY REPULSED.

Press Association—Copyright, Aiisf"c.lian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, October 13.

A Roumanian communique states: We repulsed the enemy in the TJzuk valley. Our cavalry six times drove back his infantry in the Magsyards defile. We forced the enemy to retreat in the Buzkui valley, repulsed the enemy at Predeal, and he retreated to Timos.

GREAT ENEMY LOSSES. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Bucharest, October A communique states: After sanguinary street fighting we rc-captnred the village of Poinasarata, in the Oituz Valley. We quitted Ceuvala and retired to Rucar. We captured Mount Sigleul in the Mount Celul in the Mount Celul Jiul region. The enemy sustained great losses and withdrew in disorder from our cannonade ami infantry fire from the whole Danube front. We sank a, number of vessels conveying Bulgarians intending to pillage. The total number of prisoners is now 15,000.

GENERAL ITEMS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Amsterdam, October 14. A wireless from Bucharest states that considerable Russian reinforcements arc expected, also a French military mission. The King is assuming the personal command of the army. Talis, October 15. General Bethelot heads the mission to Roumania. He commanded the army corps at the Somme and prominently collaborated with General Joffre at the Marne. He has a considerable reputation as a strategist. London, October 14. Mr Bourchier, wiring from Bucharest, states that the troops in the region of Brashov have, retired to the northern exits of the Carpathians. It is believed that the explosives found buried in the garden of the German Legation were imported shortly before Roumanian intervention. They bear the seal of the 1 Foreign Minister at Berlin, and are sufficient to blow up all the public buildings in Bucharest.