IN RUMANIA.
MAGNIFICENT RETREAT OF THE PREDEAL ARMY.
(The Times.) . .'■■ LONDON, January 11. Mr. Braum serids from Jassy the first authoritative account of the fate of the Predieal army, which the Germans alleged that tney captured. The correspondent witnessed the retreat of the* whole army, under command of General Averescu, who is now commander-in-chief of Rumania. King Ferdinand ordered a retreat from the Carpathians when the heights safeguarding Bucharest were abandoned, and General Averescu withdrew slowly 1 maintaining contact with the enemy and keeping up artillery ' fire until the infantry was safe, when the, guns were \ destroyed and abandoned. The rearguards wene also sacrificed. The Predeal divisions have since fought prominently. > .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14195, 12 January 1917, Page 3
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