FALL OF BUCHAREST.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 883, 8 December 1916, Page 7

FALL OF BUCHAREST.

CAUSES NO SURPRISE. ENEMY'S GREAT WIN. MUCH VALUABLE BOOTY. iutlmUan and .V ?. Cable Ancciatien. LONDON. December 7. The fall (if Bucharest has been so long expected that its announcement caused no sensation. News is now anxiously awaited as to the condition of the Rumanian Army. Another danger threatening is the Gorman advance on the Hank of the Russians and Rupianians in Moldavia. The Germans now control the Rumanian railway system, and have probably secured enormous supplies of wheat, cattle, and oil. The fall of Bucharest and Ploesti shortens the German line by 300 miles, and enables the diversion of large forces to be made elsewhere. Meanwhile a fragment of the Orsova army continues its resistance, though many have been taken prisoner. It has now been cut off for nearly three weeks, but rather than surrender is continually appearing at new points. INVADERS' PROGRESS. WHEAT STORES CAPTURED. ' A. and "5.7.. ColU AsfbcieHtn and Rtuitr. LONDON, December 6. A German oflicial message says:— ' We have captured Sinaia. 37 mile* | north-west of Ploesti, and just south : of the Predcal Pass. We haw cleared out the Ruma- ; nians from the south bank of the j Argesu River, and are now advanc- ! ing towards Bucharest. We captured 1600 men and four ! guns in a fight on the Alt with the j Orsova rearguard, whose way was 'blocked on the east bank of the river. i We also took prisoner 4400 other Rui ma nians. We captured considerable stores of wheat bought by Britain on the railway north-west of Bucharest. The message admits a Russian success in the Trotps Valley. An Austrian communique says:— The important railway junction of Jloesli, 38 miles north of Bucharest, has been captured.