PROGRESS ON RUSSO-RUMANIAN FRONT

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13723, 14 November 1916, Page 6

PROGRESS ON RUSSO-RUMANIAN FRONT

HEAVY FIGHTING IN MANY SECTORS. ENEMY'S DESPERATE EFFORTS TO HOLD POSITIONS. (Australian.and New Zealand Cable Association.) ROME, November 12. The Petrograd correspondent of II Messagero states that the Russians threw back enemy detachments which crossed the Danube at Cernavoda. Another report says'that the enemy has. retreated in Dobrudja fifty 'kilometres southward. There has been desperate fighting along the whole front, in- which heavy losses Avere sustained by the enemy, who continues to receive reinforcements, especially at Praleal. : . A Rumanian communique says: In the Trotus Valley we occupied Aliimis and Prectesele. In the Uzuli Valley we repulsed eight attacks in the direction of the Cerniea summit, and thereafter took the offensive along the whole front. We have occupied the Lupeei and Atamcarta summits ill the Biizen Valley, and repulsed an attack on the righ bank in the Alt Vlaley. We continue to make progress. The enemy on the right bank attacked violently in the' Ji'ul Valley, and the violent attack compelled us to retire slightly southward. In the tyobrudja we have advanced as far as the Topalo, Eiman, Cisme, Cianasup front. (Australian and New Zealand Oable Association,) ROME, November 12. General Sakharoif has informed the Dobrudja army, that the German casualties in the Jiul sector totalled 100,000. (Reuter's Telegrams.) ROME,'November 12. There is a report that Constanza has been evacuated by the enemy.

BATTLES ON EASTERN FllORT; ', .— — i 'l. • ■ " £ i ■ ■ "r, „ i,< • ' " RUSSIANS COMPELLED TO GIVE GUOtUfD. j^/ \ (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association arid Renter). ■ LONDON, November 12.' ' i A Russian communique states: After a day-long bombard-' ' ment in the Lipitza, Rolnai, and Soistelniki region the enemy' '< attacked with large forces. The battle raged till evening, Wiethe eneiny recaptured a section of half of a destroyed trench. / South of Alnaslimeza we carried two commanding heights. Our southward advance on .the Danube front is continued. n L '■ % ' 'lk SUCCESSES; ON SfORTHERN; FRONT. •*" "■■' '■* —rir-' J.: ■ - - V. RUMANIANS RAPIDLY REGAINING OFFENSIVE. • „.' ■ i ; (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association and Reuter), T Received November 14,12.40 a.m. s ',' LONDON, November 13. /;] A Rumanian communique announces successes on''the' '•!-. Northern front. The.Rumanians have assumed the offensive on < the Moldavian front and advanced in the Dobrudja to a line; , Eopol-Cisme-Granasuf. ■-.''•■ . ■■■-.■:■' '■ ■• ■•■ . ■■■ <i ; .:iv !;i, \ FAILURE OF VON FALKENHAYN'S OFFENSIVE. -^ ■\ MISCARRIAGE. OF ENEMY PLANS. f'J' -■% RUMANIANS BECOMING FIRST-CLASS FIGHTING MACHINE. . ,' /

(Australian and New Zealand Cable Association and Reuter). Received November 14,1,20 a.m. • ■ v ■}/: BUCHAREST, ..November 13. £ Military critics, consider that the Austro-German efforts to ) force the Carpathians are gradually slackening. The troops are: ' Migtied and are unlikely to make progress any further unless ■ strongly reinforced. The. German failure, to break the barrier 4 is due, firstly to the stubborn Rumanian resistance in moiintain. | warfare, also to the enemy's inability to use. heavy artillery in : the passes. The Rumanians meanwhile are rapidly improving,. " and are becoming a first-class fighting machine. The German plaits at Jiul, which so badly; miscarried, were well conceived but. ; faultily executed. The enemy' aimed at cutting off • the first : Rumanian army. The main body advanced over-fast for the supporting column, and was itself threatened with envelopment; and compelled to back-out of the way with heavy losses. • | ■j i , . ' • i• ; ' ' '' ' f ,