Roumania

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 86, 8 November 1916, Page 5

Roumania

HEROISM'IN RETREAT.

TWO WEEKS* HEROIC FICHTINC.

Press Association—-Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, November 6.

Mr Washburne, writing from the Roumanian headquarters, eulogises the Roumanians' heroism in their late retreat. The fighting raged at the Ghemi Pass and in the Trotus Valley for a fortnight. After many critical days the Roumanians took the enemy on their flanks, and repulsed them with dreadful losses, the dead being piled eight deep in the passes. He regards the northern situation as satisfactory, for providential rains retard the enemy's transport of heavy artillery, and the rivers are raging torrents. Russia is sending all possible men. The enemy has lost invaluable time, and reduced his already narrow margin for campaigning as the weather threatens to make his gains a wasted effort, for what cannot be accomplished this year will probably not bo possible next, when the army is recognised. A Bucharest communique states:— We repulsed attacks in the Prahova Valley. The enemy was reinforced in the Vulcan Pass. We stopped in our pursuit. There was artillerying all along the Danube. Advanced detachments forced the enemy to fall back in the Dobrudja.. In the course of his retreat he fired four villages.

BACK AT PREDEAL. FORWARD ON THE JUIII RIVER. Press Association—Copyngut, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Loudon, November 7. A Russian official reports states: The Roumanians at Predeal were compelled to. fall back a little southward, after a prolonged struggle, but on the Juil River we pressed back the enemy northwards.