GERMANS CONTINUING THE PURSUIT.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14284, 13 December 1916, Page 5

GERMANS CONTINUING THE PURSUIT.

ROUMANIANS UNABLE TO CON-

CENTRATE,

TROOPS DETACHED FROM

MACEDONIA

DESTRUCTION OF THE OIL WELLS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

(Received Dec. 12, 5.45 p.m.) , London, Dec. 11. The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Petrograd says the Germans continue to pursue the Roumanians strongly in order to prevent their reconcentrating and attempting to recover Bucharest.

The Germans are already detaching troops from Macedonia, whither new Bulgarian levies are being despatched.. The oil wells at Ploesti were so thoroughly, destroyed that it will take at least a year to put them in working order." '■' r ':~ <■..:■:-■ '/'-■--. '■>■'*;■'*■ '' '- /■"■ '