ROUMANIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1916, Page 5

ROUMANIA.

RETREAT OF AUSTRIANS. A STREAM OF REFUGEES, . New York. Sept. 3. Von Weigand. in a dispatch, states itliat' the Austro-Hungarians are retiring btfofe the Roumanians in Transylvania, fighting only a rearguard action. The Austro-Hungarian centre is already shortening the defence line by a hundred kilometres, Five thousand refugees from the ■ evacuated districts have arrived at Budapest, and a constant stream is fleeing westward from the i {Roumanian border. I GERMAN FRICHTFULNESS. ! ROMANIA'S DOOM: A BAVARIAN PREDICTION, Now Y-ork, Sept. 3. Von Weiganc, in a wireless dispatch, „ ports that he had an interview with Count von Herthing, Premier of Bavaria, who admits the great importance of the intervention of Roumania, and says it appears certain that Roumania in the near, future will become one of the most tragic and most terrible battlefields. What that will mean to Roumania must be learned from Belpium, Poland, and Serbia. Whatever the outcome Roumania has been drawn under the wheels. It ia significant that the Entente has been compelled to cajole the smaller nations into the war. This is heartless and merciless coming from a great nation like England. With the entry of Italy and Roumania Germany has to face a third winter of a terrible conflict. Count von Herthing said he could not understand the prorounced and extensive anti-German sentiments in America. Perhaps • the Lusitania was the cause, but in the submarine question Germany gave up her most effective weapon against England for no other reason than to show her desire to maintain friendly relations with America. IMPORTANCE OF SUCCESS. London, Sept. 3. The Roumanian successes in the )r----sova district arc much commented on by the press. It is pointed out that the capture of the town will open a road along the Danube to Belgrade A •*wift advance would be fatal to the enemy. The latest success is the more satisfactory, inasmuch as there was a large stiffening of Germans among tne A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE, Received Sept. 4, 5.35 p.m. London, Sept. 3. A German communique >tates: Aus-tro-German forces encountered reconnoitring troops on both sides of the By-s-tritza on the Roumanian frontici legion. Bukar-Germans have crossed the Dabrudja bordei. between the Danube and Black Sea and scattered the Roumanian frontier guards.