RUSSIA AND RUMANIA.

Evening Star, Issue 16211, 5 September 1916, Page 6

RUSSIA AND RUMANIA.

JUNCTION BEYOND CARPATHIANS. GERMAN ADMISSION. NEW YORK, September 4. (Received September 5, at 8.55 a.m.) The Berlin correspondent of the ‘New York Times’ reports under date September 4: Russia’s offensive bn the south-east front has been resumed, with the obvious purpose of blocking the Austro-German reserves. It is admitted that the Allies move here is growing in intensity. Two Rumanian armies have broken into Hungary, and continue to gain ground toward the Maros line, meeting with practically no resistance except on the wings. The Austro-Germans are offering a stubborn resistance at the point where th-.' Gvergyo Range (in the Maros district, west of the northern frontier of Moldavia) joins the Carpathians, but the Russian and Rumanian armies have junc •tioned here. RUMANIA’S ARMIES ADVANCE IN HUNGARY, BULCAR ATTACK REPULSED. Reuter’s Telegrams. . BUCHAREST, September 4. (Received September 5, at 12.10 p.m.) A communique states : We captured the heights west of Corsyok, in the region of Sekeli. in Homomsyik (?Haromszek, in the angle between Moldavia and Wallachia, north of Brasso). Enemy attacks along the whole Dobrudja frontier, south of Bazardjik, were repulsed. HUNGARIAN ADMISSION. NOT ENOUGH TROOPS. Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, September 4. (Received September 5, at 12.10 p.m.) In the Hungarian Parliament' Count Tisza admitted that hitherto there have been insufficient troops to check the Rumanian advance.

A NOTORIOUS CRAVEN. FERDINAND SEEKS THE CELLAR. BERNE, September 4. (Received September 5, at 11.10 a.m.) King Ferdinand of Bulgaria nightly takes refuge in the cellars of his palace at.Sofia. He is terrified of the possibility of bombardment by Rumanian aeroplanes. The cellars are luxuriously furnished, and the floor above them has been specially strengthened with steel plates to make the cellars bomb-proof.