RUMANIANS ADVANCING IN TRANSYLVANIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2878, 16 September 1916, Page 9

RUMANIANS ADVANCING IN TRANSYLVANIA

RETREAT OF THE AUSTRIAN'S ALL EVACUATED DISTRICTS OCCUPIED (E«uter's Telegram.) , Zurich, September V.. Telegrams from Austrian Headquarters to Viennese papers admit ihr.t the Rumanians aresteadily advancing in Transylvania. They are occupying the evacuated districts, and are preparing to attack the Austrian advanced lines. The Austrians are not waiting for the Rumanian offensive, and have rotroated to the next line of defences. PENNILESS AND HALF-STARVED REFUGEES FROM 1 TRANSYLVANIA Australian-Hew Zoo land Cabin Association. ' (Rec. September 15, 7.15 p.m.) . . London, September 14. The "Morning. Post's" Budapest correspondent states that tho whole Hungarian nation is engaged in housing and succouring refugees from Transylvania, numbering a quarter of a million. The wealthy arrived pcuni'ess and half-starved. Official aid is unavailable. An unknown man stood at the railway station with a bundle of bank notes and handed one to every rofugee. ■The ArchducheßS Augusta spent days at the station distributing milk to the 1 children and comforting the refugws,- . MACKENSEN'S ADVANCE IN THE DOBRUJA'ARRESTED. • ' ' ■ ■ Petrograd, September 14. It is reported, that Von Mackensen's advance in the Dobruja has been ' arrested on the whole front, and even forced to retire from some positions. The idea of fortifying Rilistria has been abandoned. Hitherto the Russians have encountered only Turks and Germans. GENERAL AVERESCU TO COUNTER. VON MACKENSEN. '. London, September L 4. General Averescu, who initiated the Rumanian invasion of Transylvania, has been transferred to the Dobruja Danube,'to counter Von Mackensen. ■ Bucharest, September 14. General Cirailiceanu, former War Minister, will succeed General Averescu in command of • the second army iiv Transylvania. i-- . SERIES OF'. GERMAN AND. BULGARIAN ATTACKS REPELLED i London, September 14. A Russian communique states: In fighting on the right bank of the Danube, in the region of Silistria, the Rumanians repelled a series of Gorman and.Bulgarian attacks. '■ \ , GERMAN REPORT OF'AN ADVANCE'IN DOBRUJA. .......... • • s London, September 14 A German communique states: "Von Mackensen's Germans, Turks, and ' Bulgarians are advancing in the Dobrudja." SOLDIERS SUFFERING FROM MALARIA. ■ Amsterdam, September 14. ■ Many soldiers in-the Dobruja are suffering from malajia., ' VARNA. CLEARED-OF ENEMY SUBMARINES. . . Amsterdam,' September 14. . The .Bulgarian population has evacuated Varna,- which, the. • Russians, dominate. They ; haye completely .cleaied the port of-., enemy submarines and . torpedo-boats. .... . , ■ ■ ... RU S SO-RUM AN lAN ATTACK- ON BULGARIAN. COAST PENDING .(United Service.)' : . . (Rec. September 15, .7.20 p.m.). Athens, September. 14. Bulgarian'telegrams state/that the Russian Black Sea Fleet has entered .Constanza harbour; aiid are' preparing a joint Russo-Rumanian attack on the Bulgarian coast.