Roumania

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 98, 22 November 1916, Page 2

Roumania

austro-cerman progress jn WESTERN WALLAGHIA. f’rsss Association—Copyright, Austnv. liau and N.Z. Cable Association. London, November 21. Tlie German evening communique states that the Austro-Gennans are approaching Crajova, the capital ot Western Wallachia. GERMAN ARTILLERY THREATENS CRAJOVA. (Received 1.50 p.m.) London, November 21. A German communique states: Our artillery arrived before Crajova. ROUMANIAN RETIREMENT. (Received 1.50 p.m.) London, November 21. A Russian communique states:— The Roumanians continue to retire slowly in the Alt Valley southward and also in the Jiul Valley to the region of Ifiliash, twenty miles noithwest of Crajova.

PRESS COMMENT. Loudon, November 21. The Daily Telegraph’s military correspondent states that llouniania is sorely best. It is now apparent that the moment for intervention was chosen with a complete disregard bl the strategic needs. The Roumanian army might have been used with decisive effect if employed at the right moment, but intervention was positively perilous in August, 1910, when the Germanic armies wore still intact, with their reserves, whence the Gorman commanders were able to organise for the invasion of Roumania while holding up the British, French, and Russian armies by means of rearguard tactics on a gigantic scale. Either the Entente’s General Staffs lacked a single directing brain, or there has been a want of candour between the Allied Cabinets.