ENEMY RETREATING

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1916, Page 5

ENEMY RETREATING

I ROUMANIAN SUCCESSES. I Received Sept. 14, 7.35 p.m. 1 Copenhagen, Sept. 14. A Roumanian communique states t r nat north-west of tho north front of the plateau of Mayes Aluta the enemy are retreating. We captured Slimbon and ' '*iollornbeig, «nd repulsed attacks at ■Stivicivalley, west of Merisa r SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS. a i s FORTIFIED VILLAGES CAPTURED. v \ (Received Sept. 14, 5.50 p.m. ■ London, Sept. 14. ■ Mr. Ward Price, writing from Snlos IliU, states that the British made three successful raids on the lower Struma, and captured villages and Elections of i lamshacklc houses' garrisoned 'by 200 , Bulgarians. A piece of the Bulgarian - line on this sector is a series of similar 1 fortified villages like blockhouses. ft 3 .was not intended to hold the captured positions permanently, so after reconnoitring the .position the raiders returned to the British lines. A GERMAN VERSIOf London, Sept. 13. _A German communique says: General Vonconta's troops repulsed a Russian massed attack on the front at Smotree, 5 on the Golden Ebistritza, in Roumania. J The Germans engaged the Roumanians [ at Hermanstadt and south-east of floet- '_ zing. In the Dobrudja our movements ■' were according to schedule. 'The War Oir.ee reports that at Salonika on the 13t'h there were only .patrol : encounters east of the Struma and dual * artillery activity on the Doiran front. ] A BULGARIAN REPORT Received Sept. 14, 5.50 ip.m. t Sofia, Sept. 14. ; A communique mentions that during - the heavy lighting in the Struma valley • they captured British prisoners, and that - their hydroplanes also successfully bombed the fleet in Kavalla harbor.