Roumania

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 2, 27 November 1916, Page 5

Roumania

MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. ALLIES NOT BEEN IDLE. IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS IN RUSSIA. Press Assn,— Copyright.—Australian Cable Association, (Received 11.50 a.m.) London, November 26. The Weekly Despatch publishes a hopeful review of the situation in Koumania. While a further Roumanian retreat was possible, the Allies have not been idle, the Roumanian air service having been augmented, and doubtless men and guns are reaching her. The communiques from Bucharest will likely retain an anxious note until the veil is lifted on the happenings in the north. Movements calculated to have a vital influence on the Roumanian cainpaign are occurring in Russia. Ib is not the Russians’ habit to talk until they are ready, as the Austrians and Turks knpw to thensorrow.

General Falkenhayn’s coup has not yielded hid all tho benefits anticipated. He may find a sterner resistance ahead sooner than he expects. ,

ROUMANIANS NOT CRUSHED. • t-'i:- •' ' ’. ' .' ‘ " RUSSIANS AWAIT PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT. Press Association—Copyright, Austin lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.10 p.m.) I London, November 26. The military correspondent of the Sunday Times says that the situation in Roumania turns on the basic fact that the enemy has not been able to detach more than thirty divisions against Roumania, and the Roumanians tan outnumber their opponents i by two to one, while tho Russians in ' the north are only awaiting the psychological moment to strike the German invaders at their most vulnerable point. Colonel Feyler, a distinguished Swiss authority, says that - with the frost, the Russians will move again, while the Allies on the Somme may, if the ground be hard, compel them to obtain a draft on General Falkenhayn's armies. The Roumanians are in no wise crushed, and may hold Falkenhayn indefinitely in front of Bucharest, thus depriving Germany of the • swift triumph, the prospect of which alone tempted her in the Roumanian adventure, ip order to retrieve her de- ■ feats on the other fronts.