CONTINUED ADVANCE INTO TRANSYLVANIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 19 September 1916, Page 7

CONTINUED ADVANCE INTO TRANSYLVANIA.

FIERCELY-CONTESTED POSITION NOW CAPTURED. ALLIES RETIRING TO STRONG POSITIONS IN DOBRUDJA Times. (Received 7.40 p.m.) LONDON. September 18. A Roumanian official report states: "We have continued our advance on our northern and north-western fronts. Three towns have been occupied. Branshill is in our possession after frequently changing hands." Mr. Braun, the war correspondent who is at the Roumanian headquarters, states that the Russo-Roumanians are falling back in the Dobrudja. They are taking strong positions at Rasova, ten miles south of Cernavoda, where there is the only bridge across the Danube, and at Tuzla. 12 miles south of Constanza. AMSTERDAM. September 17. A German communique states: ''Tie Roumanians are advancing against the Kukullo sector on both side? of Szekely Udvarhely. Von Mackensen's pursuit in the Dobrudja continues.'' A Bulgarian communique claims that the Bulgarians are pursuing the defeated Russians and Roumanians in the Dobrudja. BERNE. September 17. A wireless message states that Buda Pesth advices report that Count Stephen Tisza, Premier of Hungary, has given the Opposition reassuring promises that the Roumanians will be driven out of Transylvania. Austria's allies have decided to devote every spare man to crush Roumania. i —__— Rasova and Tuzla are both about the same distance south of the ConstanzaBucharest railway, the former on the Danube, and the latter on the Black Sea coast. Cenia Votla is at the point where the railway crosses the Danube.