EASTERN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6805, 8 December 1916, Page 5

EASTERN.

fERMANS REPORT pJKE OF BUCHAREST.

Romanian Army Unable to Destroy Bridges. Australian and N.Z Cable Asso. Bee Dec 7, 9 45 pm London, Dec 6 \ wireless message from Berlin J^aces the capture of Bucharest, ; c » f ital of Rumania Rpc Dec i, 1 10 pm Amsterdam, Dec 6 ASermiUi correspondent says that k victory on the Arges River, west jgacharest, was only possible besse the Rumanians had no *inie to jJsHoy the bridges. The Ninth SerjjaQ Army is iucessanbly afctack- , fa rearguard?, and is marching e»jhi upon the oilfields of Prahova. »{he valley be reached the Germans .jjf&eoa the line of retreat of the l^gjj Rumanian Army, which has Isaheldup by the enemy for two Sofia -messages declare that after Rarest, the next task before the Oennanic Powers is the capture of ftloaa, on the Adriatic const, which sia Italian occupation, and they will hands with Greece. (Annans Breaking Resistance of Enemy Rearguards. Amsterdam, Dec 6 i German communique states':— •^'General Mackensen is pursuing mi breaking the resistance of the aefflf's rearguards. He has crossed & railway from Bucharest to Tergoigeea, towards the east. The numJeFof prisoners taken has increased 5 12,600, while 4,500 were taken inhere," An Austrian official message states gjl , counterfeit iv the Carpathians deprived U Russians of all their recent local max Attacks by the Russians on 6 Moldavian frontier were repulsed ihlflieavy losses. Enemy Attacks Repulsed. \ -Res Dec 7, 2.5 pm . ' - Paris, Dec 6 A Russian communique states :— /"The enemy was successful in the fiction of Tirgovista and Plpesci, d fathe region of Dokanesci on 80-^acharest railway, where thfe Isaianiahs were compelled to retire kcausequence of the piercing of i&eff front. Enemy attacks in other getor^were renulsed," , : rVenizelos Urges Action. :- - London, Dec 6 v H. Venizelds,; iii it uuesdage to his fends in Loifdcm, urges, the Allies 5* net immediately, iv view of the pmlous nature of tho situation.