Roumania

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 6 December 1916, Page 5

Roumania

TME FATE GF BUCHAREST. i ADVANCE OF ENEMY FORCES. 'T Paths Ansociaciou—Copyright, .lustraliau and N./. Cable A:;--rvt;i >.>n Li an lon. December ~>. i’ll** Morning Post's Peirograd eorivsj.'i nuli'ii L, wiring mi Sunday, stales ilust iiglitinn, continues along the Argos river on a thirty miles’ front from Pi test i, in tiie enemy’s favor. r l lie Germans are advancing Irani the west, coming nj> in the rear of the Roumanians and t threatening their complete envelopment. The approach of the German cavalry compelled the Roumanians to retreat south-east upon Bnchafhst. The arrival o| ihe Russians south and south-west h Bucharest temporarily changed the aspect, hut the fate of Bucharest is merely a matter ot time. It is questioned whether the Russians can bring sufficient troops in time to assist Ine Roumanians to use ihe liueharest forts as support against the attaching armies. RUSSIAN ASSISTANCE. Zurich, December o. Ji’ldea Xa/.itonale states that the Grand Duke Nicholas is in supreme command of the iDisso-Ronmanian armies in the new war theatre. He was hurriedly summoned to the Czars headquarters to receive the appointment. The Russian section consists of thirteen army corps, with lour hundred thousand edeetives. ENEMY REPORTS. London, December o. A Berlin official communique slates; The remainder of the Roumanian First Amry was driven across I itn junction into the arms of the German infantry division. The enemy was defeated north-west and south of Bucharest. An additional t eight thousand were taken prisoners, and enormous booty, including thirty-five guns, secured, dim Russians somewhat ptdigressed in the Trotusol Valley. The communique declares that the .Serbian capture of the height east oi Cenia does not influence the Roumanian operations. An Austrian official message states: The Roumanian units previously cut off in Lesser AVaHaehia are being systematically destroyed in continous battles. The Danube is open to ns. The booty captured is extraordinarily licli. The Russians in Dm Carpathians are exhausted, and their attacks have slackened.

BLACK FOR BUCHAREST. UNDENIABLE ENEMY PROGRESS WITHIN RANGE OF ALLIED GUNS. CAPTURE OF CEREAL STOCKS. THE OIL FIELDS THREATENED, RUSSO-ROU MAN lANS JUNCTION

Press Association—Copyright, Austin lian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received 10. 5 a.m.) London, December 5. The situation before Bucharest is black. Indeed, if the Herman claims are to be accepted, a decisive battle was fought at Argesu on Sunday resulting in the defeat of the Russo Roumanians. The Germans are aI sr recovering the ground which they lost south-west of Bucharest, where they were driven back on Saturday by the Roumanian offensive. The Germans are now within range of Bucharest’s big guns. General Maekensen, who has assumed tile chief command, claims that the Roumanians suffered bloody losse in the advance to the plain, and that the success also simplified the commissariat problem. 'I he greater part of the mai/.e crop was captured, and in addition large stocks ol wheat, petrol, wood, metal, and salt, much oi whirli* were in loath'd carts. The German advance on Targovista brings them to the outskirts ol the oil area, the richest, oil Held heinr in the I’rahova Valley, hetweei Ploesti and the Predeal Pass. During 19]ij, Roninania exported U(!;l tons of relined oil, the products bein': practically all for' Germany and Austria, but only -three per emit, ol ilia

was petrol, winch the Roumanian; treated as enntrahand. The presen .stock' ol' petrol in Ronmania is ahon a million tons. il the Roumanian' are able to demolish the wells am machinery, it will he six months he tore the (Germans will he aide to ex tract any oil. The only redeeming; feature ol -,ihi news is the tact that the Russia) Army has eli’e. ted a junction whl the Roumanians heiore Rneharest and it nmst he Imped that the Hns sians will he .d/.e in tiinnV in turlhei reinforcements at the. other danme; points.