THE BALKANS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 7 October 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

EOnMAMIAN ACTIVITIES

OFRESH OFFENSIVE IN TRANSYL-

VANIA

AN .ENEMY -ADMISSION

"CHASTISEMENT OF ROUMANIA

MUST BE POSTPONED."

BUCHAREST, Oct. 6

A communique states: Our torces, which crossed the Danube between Itustchuk and Turtukiu, having .concluded their demonstration, r'eureel to the left bank. •

Violent fighting continues on N the whole Dobruclja rront. We captured-the enemy fortifications in the region of Parajd, between Brasso and Dornawatra,, after three days' fighting. Keuter adds -that it is thus, clear that the Roumanians have started a fresh oifensiv© in Central Transylvania.

BERNE, Oct. 6/

. The war correspondent of the Vienna Zeit telegraphs that Austrian headquarters state *.that the impossible must not be expected on the Rou-' manian front. General Brusiloff's latest offensive tied large forces, and it may become necessary to postpone the chastisement of Roumania. Rf.tlier ■must we bo satisfied, to stem the tide of the Roumanian onslaught against Hungary.