Roumania

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 4, 29 November 1916, Page 5

Roumania

ENEMY PUNITIVE MEASURES. SHELLING UNFORTIFIED TOWNS. DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES. Press Association —Copyright. Published in* “The Times." London, November 27. M. Bourchier, correspondent at Bxicharest, says the Germans have launched punitive measures -against the unarmed Roumanian population and are shelling unfortified tqiyns and villiages and. massacring, the defenceless peasants working in the fields. These measures are largely due to Gorman press hostility against the so-called Roumanian treachery, • . Germany is now developing the mineral resources in the conquered territories, showing remarkable energy, and vigorously working the Serbian copper and iron mines.,- In Asia-Minor, with German machinery, they‘are producing a plentiful supply of copper, which previously was in yery short supply. There are veritable working armies of deportees everywhere, including women.

MAIN GERMAN PLAN FOILED.

Press Association-Copyright, Austra-

lian and N.Z. Cable Association: London, November 38.

The Daily Chronicle’s correspondent at the Russian headquarters on .the southern front authoritatively reviews the Roumanian situation. When Roumania joined the Allies, he states, the Russian armies were attacking westward in the direction of Lemberg. It seemed reasonable to believe the movement of the Roumanians in Transylvania would secure the left Russian wing, and allow the Russian offensive to be undertaken with more speed and determination. The Germans, however, quickly concentrated, and assumed a powerful offensive. It thus became Russia’s duty to throw important forces toward Roumania, which it did not hesitate to do. Russia transformed radically her own arrangements of troops. The correspondent does not explain why the Allies were unable to hold the Cernavoda-Constanza railway. Perhaps the mines were not well sprung, and’ failed to properly destroy the bridge. The situation in the Northern Dobrudja now, however, is perfectly secure. The Cernavoda bridge is under fire of the | RussoRoumanian batteries. A Bulgarian force tried to cross, but were immediately expelled to the left bank, ihe Roumanians hold a great clam, which is the continuation of the bridge through the marshes. While putting the situation right in the Dobrudja, Russia considerably extended her front, taking over Moldavia, and rendering impracticable the German plan to cut Roumania in two by operating on the Fogsani plain. The only region where there , is some anxiety is Little Wallachia. The Bulgarians are fortifying the position on the Dobrudja by making many lines of entrenchments parallel