THE ROUMANIAN CAMPAIGN

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 18 November 1916, Page 5

THE ROUMANIAN CAMPAIGN

ALLIES NEARING MON ASTIR. LONDON, Nov 17. The capture of Kenali and the flight of the Germa-Bulgars indicate decisive happenings in Macedonia. The Allies have reached a plain within 3if miles of Monastir. Hitherto the only possible advance was across rugged mountains cast and west of the rugged gap, eight miles wide, through which runs the Monastir railway. The Servians fought with magnificent valour. Though the Gcrmo-Bulgars defended entrenched positions with desperation, these were repeatedly taken and retaken. But all are now definitely secured. The enemy losses were very severe. The greater part of the prisoners are Germans, proving that the Germans sent heavy reinforcements to Macedonia. ROUMANIANS ’ STUBBORN DEFENCE. LONDON, Nov 17. A German communique says: The Roumanians are stubbornly defending the frontier passes. We prisoncred ROUMANIANS PUSHED BACK. VILLAGE OCCUPIED BY THE ENEMY. Received 11.30 LONDON, Nov 17. A Russian communique states: The enemy occupied the village of Liresht in the Roumanian Kimpolung region. The Roumanians evacuated the village of Tirgujiuliu in the Jiul region.

THE THREE MILE LIMIT The Deutschland, we read, began its trip back to Germany from America by submerging “within a short distance of of the three-mile limit.” The origin of this imaginary line three miles from the shore, which fixes the territorial waters of a sovereign State, is somewhat of a mystery. One explanation, and the one usually accepted, is that when it was agreed, upon by the nations throe miles was the limit of the big guns at that time. If that was so, and a, proposal was put forward to revise tire territorial limits in agreement with the effective range of /modern artillery, there would be a big shrinkage of the “high seas.’’ France could claim jurisdiction from Calais to Dover, and we from Dover to Calais, which would bo awkward __; while little of the Mediterranean would remain international waters, with 15-inch guns on Italy’s “big toe” and on the many islands dotted about the middle sea. —London Chronicle. “DOWN WITH WAR.” A German Landstrum man on frontier duty near Maastricht threw over, the electrically-charged wire fence a bundle of papers containing a hundred copies of a pamphlet just published in Stuttgart by the firm of Schulze and Nachfelder, under the title “Hunger” (says the London Daily Express’ correspondent at The Hague): — I understand that this pamphlet has been distributed broadcast in Germany in spite of the efforts of the authorities to trace the author. Meanwhile the publishers have been locked up. ‘Hunger’ starts with the fierce declaration: ‘lt has come. As was foreseen, hungry people are revolting all over the country, while those rseponsible for this''state of affairs have merely one reply for the famished crowds —police swords and military patrols.’ The booklet ends with the following revolutionary appeal: ‘Men and women of the labouring classes! We are shouldering a terrible responsibility. Either Germany remains silent only to face the end soon, or the proletariat decide to serve the Government, and thereby bring, pojace by force. There is no other alternative. Down with the war! Long live the solidarity of the international proletariat!’ ”