THE ADVANCE OF RUMANIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3149, 30 July 1917, Page 5

THE ADVANCE OF RUMANIA

BEEP WEDGE DRIVEN I RUSSIANS STILL RETIRING AIR RAID ON PARIS ■ 'curious rumours about ■ KITCHENER As it is pictured in the news to-day, tlio situation in Russia shows *ome signs of improving. North of the Dniester the Russian resistance to the enemy advance appears to bo hardening. Further south the AustroOrermans are still making xapid headway, but the Russian retirement in this region (between the Dniester and tho Carpathians) is made necessary by developments furthor north. Developing their offensive in Southwestern Moldavia, the Rumanians have now advanced about eight miles from their starting point, and tho enemy is said to bo retiring in disorder on his nearest railway base in Transylvania. A great national assembly, to be attended by moderate as well as radical representatives, is to moet at Moscow to-day, and it is expected that a reconstruction of tho Government will follow. Portentous bombardment and intense aerial activity are reported on. the British front. Speaking to 'French journalists, Mr. Lloyd George stated that Britain had raised fighting forces aggregating seven million men—including half a million men in the Navy and a million soldiers from overseas. He said al«> that the British shipbuilding, programme for 1918 the construction of merchant ships . aggregating 4,000,000 tons.