THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

.—I GREAT RUSSIAN SUCCESS. 1 £OOO PRISONERS TAKEN AX DOBRUDJA. Received Sept. 20, 5.3 p.m. London, Sept. 25. An important Russian success has Icon chieved at the Dobrudja, two thousand risoners being cr.pt ured. A VICOROUS OFFENSIVE. RESULTS "MOST SATISFACTORY," deceived Sept. 26, ]<) p.m. Renter Service. Salonika, Sept. 28. , Allics began a vigorous offensive ii the neighborhood of Fiorina on Simay. The fighting continues with the nost satisfactory results. Tile Russians captured an important nil and the French occupied a village The Serbs crossed the frontier north >! Krusograd, but encountered fierce op>osition at V'erbeni. Afi. uourehier, writing from Bucliastates that the weather impedes >porations on bot'li fronts. The Bul>arian advance in the Dobrudja has been irrested. The press is jubilant at an inexperienced general defeating the great Uackensen. The Transyivanian cheek is inimportant. A satisfactory advance is >eing made in Bukovina. The Roumanian Legations are expect?d to arrive from the enemy capitals ria Sweden and Russia shortly. Ameri'a is taking over Roumanian repiesonta;ion at Berlin and Vienna, and Spain the •epresentation at Sofia and Constantilople. WOIBIANIANS STILL ADVANCING, I Bucharest, Sept. 20. A communique states: On the northern front, in the Cabman mountains, the advance continues. In the Jiu valey partial enemy actions were repulsed, rhe total prisoners taken on this front ire GSB4. In the Dobrudja the left flank has progressed. •ALLIES' PROGRESS CONTINUES. ~ London, Sept. 26. A French communique states: The English continue their raids on the left ban!: of the Struma. They successfully attacked Jumimab, northward of Tiafiinos. Our artillery is active from 'Lake Doiran to the Vardar, and caused a lire in Doiran. Our advance on the left win'* continues along the whole line. Tile Serbians in the region of Brod reached the frontier crest northward of Krasograd. The French north-east of Fiorina captured t*'e outskirts of Petorak after lively fighting. They also advanced northward of Fiorina. Tlie Russians captured a stronglyfortified hill westward of Fiorina,. BULGARIAN EFFORT 'BROKEN. Amsterdam, Sept. 25. The Bulgarian effort in the Dobrudja has been broken. The arrival of Turkish reinforcements suggests, that the enemy's j reserves are exhausted ROUMANIAN GAINS. Sept. 215, The Roumanianstoontinue the struggle for Mount Calimanu, and they are- ad vancing towards the Austrian trenches south-west of Dorna Vatra. The Austrians have been taken in the rear and have been obliged to abandon the Carpathian passes. It is reported that Hungaria here was invaded by the 'Roumanians, who repulsed the enemy almost as far as the old Roumanian frontier. TRANSYLVANIA WILL BE LOST. New York, Sept. 25. M. Shuvaff, Russian War Minister, in special cablegram to the New York World, comments on ihe Roumanian position. The Germans know quite well that Transylvania will be lost irreparably; that has already been plainly determined by the occupation by theßoumanians of the entire Alt Valley from Hermannstadt and Kronstadt to Szereda and Chik. Germans realised that the menace to communications between Berlin and Constantinople was too great for her to resist. She also understood the tremendous political effect if the Boumanians conquered Transylvania.