EASTERN THEATRE

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17030, 3 December 1915, Page 7

EASTERN THEATRE

RUSSIAN ADVANCE* CAPTURE TOWNS IN BUKOWINA. RUMANIA INCREASES TRJOOPS ON FRONTIER. (Received December 2. &.20 p.m.) ROME, December 2. 'Hie “ Corriero Della Sena ” says that the Russians have invaded Bukowiaa and captured Sadagora and Mashala. The Russian concentration on the Danube continues, and the Rumanians are concentrating more troops on the Austrian frontier. THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. GERMANS PREPARE FOR BLOW. WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM BALKANS. (Received December 2, 11.15 p.m.) ROME, December 2. Reports from Bucharest state that the Germans have withdrawn large forces from Bulgaria and Serbia to meet the Russian offensive in Galicia and Bukowina. Several battalions of Bulgarians have been sent to Gallipoli instead of Germans as originally planned. RUSSIAN WAR LOAN. MOSCOW’S HELP.. (Received Deeember 2, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, December 1. The Moscow cloth manufacturers have agreed to subscribe £100,000,000, one-tenth of the capital of the Russian war loan. RUSSIAN FRONT CALM. GERMANS ON DEFENSIVE IN RIGA REGION. ‘‘Time*’’ and Sydney “Sun” Services. LONDON, December 1. “ The Times ” correspondent in Petrograd says that the Germans on the Riga front are definitely assuming the defensive. They have established strongly fortified positions, protected by four lines of wire entanglements, and a continuous stream of reinforcements is flowing in. Tho whole Russian front is quiet. In viow of the Balkans development, experts regard the southern part of tho Russian line as tho most important owing to the enemy’s concentration.