ROUMANIA.
HINDENBURG'S CONCENTRATION A DESPERATE HOPE. (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Assn.) Received 5.5 p.m., Sept. 24th. PETROGRAD, Sept. 23. It is believed that Marshal von Hindenburg has collected thirty divisions from tho French, Russians, and Italian fronts, and added fourteen Bulgarian and sevon Turkish divisions, hoping to crush Roumania. Tho success of tho scliemo depends on the offensives on tho Somme, in Gtilicia, and on tho Isonzo coming to a, speedy standstill. INVADERS FALL BACK. SILISTRIA ABANDONED. (United Service.)/ - BUCHAREST, Sept. 23. Official.—Tho Germans, Bulgarians, and Turks : occupied a fortified line, abandoning Silistria (on .the Danube); The Russians arc bombarding Varna. ENEMY RETREAT. CEASES IN DOBRUDJA. (Router's Telegrams.) Communique. There have been minor engagements in Transylvania. The enemy in the Dobrudja has ceased Lis retreat and has fortified himself. A GERMAN REPORT. HERMANNSTADT HARD PRESSED BERLIN, Sept. 22. < Communique.—-Two Roumanian divisions attacked both sides of Hermannstadt. Wo repulsed the Roumanians: southeast of Topraisar. AUSTRIAN REPORT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ■ Received 11 p.m., Sept. 24th. VIENNA, Sept. 24. Communique.—Wo made prisoner 529 Roumanians near Hermannstadt. Our first line noar Ilolzmengen, was foi'ced back.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CV, Issue 16076, 25 September 1916, Page 2
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