RUSSIANS IN ROUMANIA

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 338, 13 November 1915, Page 5

RUSSIANS IN ROUMANIA

NEUTRALITY TO RUSSIA CERTAIN BRATIANO FAVOURS THE ENTENTE KUUIVIANIA & yllLLbt tJUiii IF OVERWHELMING FORCES SENT BULGARIANS IN FLIGHT BEFORE THE ANGLQ-FREHGH RUSSIANS CAPTURE 125,000 PRISONERS

THE .BALKANS. BOUMANIA'S ATTITUDE. 'MINISTRY NOT RECONSTITUTED. PREMIER -FAVOURS ENTENTE. BUCHAREST, Nov. 12. M. Britiano failed to reconstitur,« the Ministry. He declared that neu- ' trality towards Russia was certain, and said it was impossible to imagines Roumania fighting against the Entente. ROUMANIA AN]- GREECE WILE JOIN ENTENTE. IF OVERWHELMING ALLIED FORCE IS SUPPLIED. LONDON, Nov. 32. The Times' Bucharest corresponlent says: If Russia sends 200,000 men to Servia, and additional French and British troops are sent to Sal nika. Ronmania's hesitation will be dissolved, and Greece and Roumania will join the Allies. In this event 200,000 Roumanians will fall on Bulgaria's back while 400,000 attack the German front. Eotimania regards the Carpathian pusses as impregnable. Fighting would also « probably occur in Thrace, where Von der Goltz lacks munitions. I ' BRITAIN AND SERVIA. i STATEMENT BY SIR E. GREY. LONDON, Nov. 12. In the House of Commons, Sir E. Grey made a short statement regarding Servia. He said: We and the French offered to send 150,000 troops to enable Greece to fulfil her obligations to Servia. We immediately sent all the men available and made preparations, without delay, to transport others. It then became evident that Greece would not fulfil her obligations. While w were considering whether we could safely release troops from the other fronts, Sir Edward Carson resigned. Finally, we decided to continue sending troops to Salonika. PERSIA AND THE ALLIES. PETROGRAD, Nov. 11. A Teheran telegram states that the majority of the Mejlish expressed a wish for the favourable adjustment of the relations with Russia. The Council of Ministers was sitting for 2-4 hours deliberating on the conditions which they should offer to Russia and Britain. In the meantime the Austrian and German Legations removed the archives belonging to the American Legation. GERMANS ON THE DANUBE. UNLOADING MUNITIONS. (Times and Sydney Sun Cables) LONDON, {November 12. The "Times" Bucharest correspondent says that the Germans have discharged over a thousand wagon-loads of munitions at Danube ports. Klado- j vo has been transformed into a mili- i tary port, and numbers of munition j barges are daily unloading The Turks' supplies are being unloaded at Widin.. RUSSIANS LAND IN ROUMANIA. LONDON, (November 12. The "Times" Bucharest correspondent, states that the Russians have landed a small force of troops and artillery at Silistria. ( ' (Silistria is a town in Roumania TO miles north-west of Varna, on the south bank of the Danube).

r GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESSES. AMSTERDAM, November 12. A German communique says that Gen. Hindenburg, near Kenerm, west of Riga, repulsed three Russian attacks which were supported by warships. "We withdrew during the night from the wooded ground west and southwest of Schlock unhindered, as the ground was swampy. Gen. von Lin sin gen has ejected the Russians from Koseitknowka, north of the railway from Kovel to Sarmy. The pursuit of the Servians in the mountains of south-western Morava continues. A thousand prisoners were taken. General Bojadjeff crossed the Morava at several points. ITALY WILL CO-OPERATE. IN THE BALKAN STRUGGLE. i (Reed. 9.35 a.m.) ROME, November 12. Sicolo states that Italy has agreed to actively co-operate in the Balkans. BULGARIANS FLEEING. BEFORE THE ANGLO-FRENCH. MEN AND MATERIAL SUFFER. (Reed. 9.35 a.m.) LONDON. November 12. A Bucharest report states that the Anglo-French are pursuing the Bulgarians north-east of Yeles. There has been enormous Bulgarian losses both in men and material. Athens unofficially confirmed the above. SUSTAINED WITH FALSEHOODS. RETREATING GERMANS FOOLED. WITH ABSURD PROMISES. (Reed 9.35 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Nov. 12. Documents found on German prisoners and dead show that commanders sustained the troops during Russian pursuit with promises that Russia would soon sue for peace. Furlough permits, dated August, stated that if peace with Russia was signed during the permits currency, the holder would not return to the front, but rejoin at depots. LORD KITCHENER. THE RUMOURED RESIGNATION. • A BASELESS FABRICATION. LONDON, Nov. 11. In the House of Commons,. Mr. Asquith, in defending the suppression of the Globe, said that Lord Kitchener had never breathed a word of resignation to the King or Mr. Asquith. The Cabinet sent Lord Kitchener to the Near East upon receiving serious information. Mr. Asquith protests! against members of that House persisting in baseless fabrications and accusing him of deliberate falsehood. IMPERIAL MATTERS. A CONFERENCE WANTED. LONDON. Nov. 12. In the House of Commons, Mr. A. Fell asked would opportunity be taken of the expected presence of Dominion leaders to holfd a conference to consider the flooding of the Empire with cheap enemy goods at th end of the war. Mr. Asquith said that this and other questions of interest to the Empire would be discussed as opportunity was given of the presence of the Dow.vn.iQU representatives.

ARTILLERY INT THE WEST. i ACTIVITY ALONG THE FRONT. The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, Nov. 12. Paris reports general artillery activity over the whole Western front. THE ZEELANDIA INCIDENT. Rec. 12.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The British authorities are investigating the reported forced searching of the American steamer Zeelandia at Progresso, Mexico, by a party from a British cruiser. * They have information which, leads them to the belief that the. Zeelandia. when searched, was lying more than three miles from the shor, and therefore was not in a neutral port. CUNAED LINER SUNK. LONDON, Nov. 11. The Cunard liner Saria has be< n sunk. THE ANCONA OUTRAGE. DEATH-EOLL TOTALS 257. (Rec. 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 12. The latest death-roll in connection with the Ancona is 257. SUPPLIES TOR SUBMARINES. GREEK SMUGGLERS AT WORK. ROME, Nov. 12. Greek smugglers are supplying the Austro-German submarines with petrol and provisions. Italian torpedoers and submarines are organising a systematic .chase. SEIZURE OF THE HOCKING. (Rec. 12.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Great Britain has informed the United States of the cause of the detention of the American steamer Hocking, which was seized by a British prize-crew and taken to Halifax to determine whether the vessel is enemy-owned, although flying the American flag. AN INFAMOUS ACT. EXPLOSIVES IN CARGO. (Rec. 12.45 a.m.) HALIFAX, Nov. 12. What is believed to be a piece of fuse was found by stevedores among packages of sugar they were removing from the steamer Rio Lagos. The vessel arrived with her cargo of sugar afire, much of it having been destroyed. TRANSPORT TORPEDOED. A BELATED ANNOUNCEMENT. SYDNEY, Nov. 12. •The following announcement has been officially released to th |>ress by the Home authoritis: — On the 2nd Septmber the transport Southland, from Alexandria, was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea, and beached at Mudros the same night under her own steam. The troops were transferrd to other transports. There were some casualties, those reported being: Nine killed, two slightly wounded, 22 missing, believed to be drowned. The Commonwealth Defence Department announces that the troops on board included x\ustralian units, and the casualties are allready published. These show that a colonel died of shock, nine others were killed, and 19 are missing. BRITAIN'S MUNITIONS INDUSTRIES. A GIGANTIC ORGANISATION. LONDON, {November 12. With the idea of affording glimpses of the gigantic organisation of tihe munition industries, a party of representative pressmen are touring typical workshops. They saw two establishents at Birmingham where cartridges, shells, fuses, and primers are being turned out in almost incalculable quantity. One will soon reach the production of eleven million cartridges weekly. The work is mostly being doue by women, three thousand of whom are housed in a single vast workshop. One factory has been trebled in since November, and the other, which is wholly new, covers eleven acres. The two employ twelve thousand, and are merely typical of scores of others. The whole country is divided into munition areas, controlled by local boards, engineers, nad experts. Besides twenty national shell factories and eleven national heavy projectile factories, there are 1346 controlled workshops employing over a million. The spirit of the industrial Midlands is different to tihat in London. Strong, eager determination to do solid war-work is seen everywhere. Evidently the munition manufacturers have settled down to a long war, and are working as if it were a great business undertaking' intended to last a generation or over a hundred years.—(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) . . • ..

ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT. THE GALICIAN CAMPAIGN. A TEN WEEKS' HAUL. 125,000 'PRISONERS CAPTURED. LONDON, Nov. 12. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent says that General Ivanoff has broken the enemy's front thric, capturing 125,000 Austro-Germans in ten weeks. , RUSSIAN SUCCESS. The High Commissioner reports as follows: LONDON, Nov. 12. On the Eastern front, on the left bank of the Dvina, in the region of Ixcul, the Russians captured the village of Bersemunde. The Germans counterattacked, but were repulsed with heavy losses. North of Kolsly the total number of prisoners taken is now 3,500. RUSSIA'S WAR STRENGTH. 1 21,000,000 MEN. LONDON, Nov. 11. The Hon. H. J. Tennant, the UnderSecretary for War, stated in the House of Commons that Russia's supply of men of military age at the beginning of the war was 21 millions. SHIRKERS' LAST DAYS. MUST ENLIST BY NOVEMBER 30. LONDON, Nov. 11. Lord Derby has announced that unless the young men enlist before November 30th the Government will redeem its pledge made on November 2nd by Mr. Asquith. NATIONAL ECONOMY. INTERESTING DISLOSURES. LONDON, Nov. 12. In the House of Lords, in debating national economy, Lord Midleton opined that -Lord Lord Kitchener was laden with w-ork in the War Office which ten could not satisfactorily prform. Reorganisation was essential and might save a quarter of a million per day. Some horse contractors were making £30,000 a year. The Duke of Devonshire said that the Admiralty made every effort to combine efficiency and economy. A special c.ommmissioner was already in the Eastern Mediterranean to inquire into transport. Lord St. Aldwyn said there had been insufficient control in making advances to the Allies, which, with the cost of munitions, was the main cause of the increased expenditure. Big orders were criven to persons in the United States who did not possess factories. Big payments were even mad before works were erected. Thre ought to be more indirect taxation. QUEST!ONs"I7rTHE"cOMIVIONS. LONDON, (November 12. In the House of Commons, the Hoh. R. McKenna stated that he was unable at present to legislate to relieve colonial incomes from the triple income tax. Mr Runciman, in reply to a question, said he was aware that the Swift Beef Company controlled the Australian meat export. The company had not paid income tax. The Hon. R. McKenna said he was seeking power to apply the income tax on excess profits and to tax foreign companies. Mr Bonar Law stated that the position of the Australian base metal industry at the end of the war was under the Government's consideration. No offer of the output by the authorities had been made through the Ci'onial Office. There seems to be some misunderstanding as to the liability a man takes upon himself by declaring that he is willing to serve in any civil capacity in the national registration paper. If a man answers "Yes" to the question bearing on this point, he binds himself to nothing. He gives a promise merely to undertake work other than that on which he regularly earns his livelihood, if it is in the interests of the State that t|his work should be done. If the Government should ask a man to do work for which he did not consider himself fit. he could still refuse to accept the new work, even if he ,'had answered "Yes." The Government merely expects that the man who gives the answer "Yes" wi.'l be ready to make any reasonable sacrifice to redeem his promise if the occasion should require it. The Prime Minister, referring to this point, said that if men were called upon to render service to tthe country in a civil capacity, the Pa> Tm ,£ nt woultd De reasonably commensurate with the service. Don't go tome to-night without "NAZOL-*— that wonderful remedy for coughs and colds. Thousands praise it—so will you. 1/6 buys 60 doses. Cash for Camels! Drink "DESERT GOLD" TEA and save the "Camels" , off the packets. Watch for parti |of new competition. . •