THE ROUMANIAN CAMPAIGN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 26 October 1916, Page 5

THE ROUMANIAN CAMPAIGN

ISSUE OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE

ENEMY PUTTING FORTH GREATEST EFFORTS.

THE DOBRUDJA FIGHTING

AN OPEN BATTLE

TRENCH.CONSTRUCTION IMPOSSIBLE IN MARSHES.

Tfc* r. -i ™ LONDON, Oct. 25. resnonrWy Petrograd correspondent says that the growing intermSnT 6 + °f the Rt*^ and W SS of P° ntS with the e nSe T?? s eral YOn Falkenhayn's adnfS' • I now recognised that RouSo?t infn a + Strategical fector of T& SrSn S? Z ™Ce > and the Germans are not on?f +hGlr resources to the utmost, fiolto y ° avert the menace their ijaikan communications, but to secure the advantages which the subjection of Roumania would give, namely, to hold mg of the Russian left and obtaining a tresh supply o i grain. The battles in Gal cia and Volhynia are now subsidiary S?fiJ,,-+ i ISSUe m ? oumania is decided K ?t Vm + Oli r fav<ir" The German S S, RmS b6 a combined advance ««f Brasso region and Dobrudja, to cut across Roumania, thereby seizing the greater part of Wallachia, includt mg .Bucharest.

Q f T> C? a y x Tele §raPhs correspondent, lL£°^ c ?f^ tßat" inf°rmatioii via Switzerland shows that the Roumanians round their positions most difficult to noici m the marshy region leading to Con S t anza> , ln the fa(Je of General s von Mackensen's overwhelming forces Ihe. infantry and artillery of the Bui-gar-Germans renewed '-the offensive. Alter receiving large reinforcements of troops guns, and ammunition, General yon Maekensen commenced a furious action against the Roumanians along Irajanswaid, and forced the line a^ .■vanous. points..... Owing to the", impossibility oi constructing trenches and shelters m the marshy ground, the trenches quickly filled with water, above the men s waists and sometimes over their heads. Consequently an open battl© ensued, wherem Mackensen's superiority ln^? en and guris became apparent. The German-B.ulgar attacks on the Cerna salient failed. Serbian counterattacks took the for eight hundrfed metres in depth. The weather as hindering operations, and the height of the river prevents activity at the Struma.

A Roumanian communique says: We repulsed the enemy on the left bank of the Alma river, and also an attack on! the whole front : of Oatuz.

The War Office reports that on the Doiran front we raided the trenches north-east of Moyukoo, counter-attacks being repulsed.