THE DOBRUDJA BLOW

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 100, 25 October 1916, Page 7

THE DOBRUDJA BLOW

LIMITS AID FROM RUSSIA

ENEMY IN TRAHSYIVANIAN PASSES

REVIVAL OF RUMANIAN RESISTANCE

FURIOUS ASSAULT IN THE CARPATHIANS

STEADY ADVANCE ON THE SOMME

Commenting on the message reporting the loss of Constanza, Colonel Repington, the military writer in The Times, says that though the Dobrudja is not a vital theatre, the loss of the port is a disagreeable blow, limiting Russia's supply of men, as she alone can give Rumania .direct succour. Other comments on the situation point out that the capture increases the difficulty of preventing the enemy crossing the Danube and cutting the Russians' land communication with Bucharest. In the Carpathians the Austrians are making a desperate effort, aided by the Germans, to divide the Russian and Rumanian forces. Bad weather has held up the Servian advance in Macedonia, giving the enemy time to bring up reinforcements. On the Somme front the British continue to make steady advance. An American message declares that the new methods of warfare adopted by the British have shown that they make for a great saving in men. Captain BoyEd t the German naval attache, who was recalled from America at the suggestion of the United States, is declared by the newspaper Providence Journal to be the originator of the scheme for the activity of submarines in American waters.