AUSTRIANS SEVERELY HANDLED

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRIANS SEVERELY HANDLED

MONASTIR BEING EVACUATED

SERVIANS' SPLENDID PROCRESS

•BRITAIN MOBILISING WHOLE OF HER

MANHOOD

TO OVERTHROW THE ENEMY

Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.—Copyright

•THE BALKANS. EVACUATION OF MONASTIR. SULOAR DEFENCES BREACHED. JPCUMVENTIXG BABUNA Received Oct. 13, 10.23 p.m. London, Oct. 13. The oit-reported evacuation of Jlonastir has at last begun. French airmen report that German . aeroplane .hangars have been removed, and that columns of waggons are proceeding to Prilep. A Serbian message states that on the Ceni* breaches have been made in the principal Bulgat defences. In the llona"«th valley heavy Serbian artillery ars bombing positions where the rearguard wil' probably malce a last stand ia order to facilitate withdrawal from the town. Though the Bulgarians still have the Babnna heights, the rear of Babuna is exposed to a new danger of envelopment. The Bulgarians have constructed two good roads along the Cerna, which the Serbian army will probably be able to use to circumvent Babuna. It ii significant that some Bulgarians frofa Monastic have reinforced the Mog- I lena section. A French communique 'states: The Serbians gained e foothold on the Brod. Aeroplanes bombed Prilep and Pliilip(opoiis. TO SAVE ROUMANIA. BRITAIN ALIVE TO THE NECESSITY Received Oct. 13, f p.m. London, Get'. "TjMr. J. Dillon (Nationalist member for Mayo) hoped an assurance would be forthcoming that the utmost resources of Britain would be used for the rescue of Roumania, which wa? in danger, <y a strong counter-offensive in Macedonia. If Roumania were overthrown, he said, Germany might never be defeated. Mr. IJ'oyd Georg. (Mimstei for War) said the Government was fully alive to the necessity for according the fullest support to Roumania against the enemy's vicious attack. There was not the least doubt that German} was concentrating with a view to crushing Ronmania in a spirit of hatred, in addition military interest FURTHER RUSSIAN FORCES LAND. Received Oct. 13, 5.5 p.m Salonika, Oct. 12. .. Fmlhcr important contingents of Russians have landed. 40RE hu:t devilry Petrograd, Oc'.. 12. A' communique states: Only minor /. operations have occurred. The AustroGermans dropped bombs, poisoned , sweo.t? and garlic infected witli cholera bacilli on Constanza & CLEARING UP MO._ London, Oct. .4 War Office report from Salonika stat-.'s that the mounted men cleared up the country to the outskirts of Sere*. They Jound the town strongly ' held. _ gOUMANU. jiIUST BE PROTECTED London, Oct. i2. In- the Roumanian Parliament, M. Baiilflsco said he believed the following were the motive? of the attempt of the Central Powers to crush Roumania: Victory would mean the consolidation of Crrman mastery from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf, the invasion of South Russia via Bessarabia, the control of the Black Sea, perhaps a decisive victory in the east, also securing the vast "Roumanian stores of corn, petroleum, benzine, mineral oils, salt, timber, poods and the railway system of the Danube for transport besides the crops. M. Bnsilesco exhorts the Allies to do their utmost to protect Roumania, thereby shortening the war and saving millions of lives and hundreds of millions of money. A GERMAN REBOKT. Amsterdam, Oct. 12. , IV enemy, was unable to resist an en- • circling attack in the Maro3 Valley, and is alio retreating on the eastern and northern- fronts. Enemy advances on loth rideg of the Vulcan Pass were repoliCd and attacks on Cerna and west - tfd ttit & tVardar failed.

WESTERN ATTACK ATTACK RESISTED. FRENCH GAIN GROUND Received Oct. 13, 10 p.m. London, Oct. 13. .leneral Si; Douglas Haig reports: We resisted an attack in the afternoon on the low heights intervening on our front on the Bapaume-Peronne road. The fighting continues. The enemy heavily shelled the trenches north-east of Le Sars and north of Courcelette. Our aeroplanes actively bombed the enemy lines of communication and aerodromes, and also infantry on the march, during the last two days, notwithstanding unfavorable weather. Received Oct. 13, 11 p.m. Paris, Oct 13. A communique states: We gained ground westward of Sailly and Saillisel. We shelled an asphyxiating gas factory near Mulhouse, causing a great conflagration. SUCCESSFUL RAIDS. London, Oct. 12. S:r Douglas Haig reports: We took prisoners and carried out five night raids at Messines, Bois Grenier and Hai-mes Router Service A "ommunique states there was reciprocal artillery work south of the Soni'.ic and in the Woevre, but quiet elsewhere. London, Oct. 12. | A Gjiman communique states: English attacks north-east of Thiepval and from the Le Sars-Gueudecourt line failed The enemy six times advanced fruitlessly from Sailly. Repeated French attacks failed south of the Somme. ,