WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 9 November 1916, Page 2

WAR NEWS.

ROUMANIANS' HEROISM. I

LONDON, Nov 7. ». Mr. Washburn, writing from the Roumanian headquarters, eulogises the Roumanians' heroism in the late* retreat. Fighting raged in the Ghemi Pass and Trotus valley for a fortnight, but after many critical days the Roumanians took the enemy on his flanks and repulsed with dreadful losses. The dead were piled eight deep in the passes. As regards the northern situation, Mr. Washburn regards it as satisfactory. Providential rains retard tne enemy's transport of heavy artillery. The rivers are raging torrents. Russia j is sending all possible men. The loss of invaluable time has reduced the enemy's already narrow margin of campaigning weather and threatens to make his gains a wasted effort, for what cannot be accomplished this year will probably not be possible next, when the army has been reorganised. Russian official.—Repeated enemy attempts'to wrest the dominating heights east of Lipitzadolna were repulsed. Enemy attacks in the Carpathians were nullified. We carried a series of heights. The Roumanians at Predeal were compelled to fall buck a little south after a prolonged struggle, but at the Jinl river pressed back the enemy northwards. Repeated Turkish attempts to attack in tli. 1 region of Conot were arrested. LONDON, Nov 7. A Bucharest communique says: We repulsed attacks in the Prahova valley. The enemy being reinforced in the Vulcan Pass, we stopped the pursuit. There was heavy artillery fire all olong the Danube. Advanced detach- • -;u'j!ts forced the enemy to fall back in ] the Dobrudja. i

In the course of tlieir retreat they fired four villages.

MALTESE NOT WANTED.

SYDNEY, Nov 7. Two hundred Maltese arrived by a French steamer, but they were not permitted to land. A proposal to send them to Samoa is under consideration. The Maltese favour the suggestion. HOW THE POLES WERE GULLED. LONDON, Nov 7. The Chronicle's Amsterdam correrespondent says German newspapers for months have ingeniously attempted to prepare Polish feeling for flocking to the German colours. Flattering and persuasive articles, appreciative of Polish detachments, emphasise the advantage of the creation of a buffer state protecting East Prussia, and significantly adding: "We may not always have Hindcnburg to deal with the Russian menace." BOUNTY FOR BRITISH CREW. - LONDON, Nov 7. The Prize Coui# awarded Commander Gocdheart and crew of submarine E 8 a bounty of £3OOO for sinking the cruiser Prinz Adalbert in the Baltic.

THE GRAVES AT GALLIPOLI.

A SATISFACTORY REPORT. ROME, Nov 7. The Apostolic delegate to Constantinople, reporting on the Anglo-French graves at Suvla and Seddul-Bahr, states that Enver Pasha facilitated his enquiry, which proves that all graves have been respected except two, the profaners of which were severely punished.