ROUMANIA'S ENTRY CELEBRATED ON THE SOMME

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13273, 31 August 1916, Page 5

ROUMANIA'S ENTRY CELEBRATED ON THE SOMME

AUSTRIAN'S FORCED TO RETIRE IN THE CARPATHIANS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)

PARIS, August 30

News of the Roumanian intervention reached the Somme on Monday, and aroused tremendous enthusiasm. It was telephoned along the trench front, and conveyed to the Germans by airmen. Double rations of wine were served, and special concerts and other festivities were organised.

AMSTERDAM, August 30

An Austrian communique states: troops are fighting in all the passes on the Roumanian frontier. The enemy sustained heavy losses, especially in the region of the Rother Thurin Pass and on the heights southwards of Brasso (Kronstadt). A repetition of attacks by strong Roumanian forces compelled our advanced for ces to retire."

BUCHAREST, August 30

The order for the general mobilisation was proclaimed in the streets amidst scenes of enthusiasm. Declarations of war against Germany, Turkey and Bulgaria have not been issued.

The initial Roumanian offensive has begun in the Transylvanian Alps. The Roumanians are moving through the Rother Thurm Pass in the direction of Hermannstadt, and through the Torsburg Passes, the latter 3300 ft high. Here the Roumanian objective is Brasso.

The Rother Thurm Pass is only 1000 ft high and is very narrow, but it is the easiest route into Austrian territory. Long after the Roumanians have reached Transylvania they will be fighting in a tangle of forest-clad hills, and rapid progress will be impossible.

The Hungarians also expect an invasion through the Verciorova Pass, near the Iron Gates, where Italian prisoners are preparing hasty defences. Roumanians here are aiming at the recovery of the Banat, one of the dearest objects of Roumanian intervention.

"SWAPPING HORSES.''

GERMAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF DISMISSED. HINDENBURG TO SUCCEED. (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received August 30, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, August 30. Official:—General von Falkenhayn, the German Chief of Staff, has been dismissed. He will be succeeded by General von llindenburg.

AERIAL WARFARE

BRITAIN THE "TOP DOG." BOTH IN MEN AND MACHINES. (Router's Telegrams.) Received August 30, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, August 30. A Router special representative who visited the Hying centres, states that there is absolute evidence that we are "top dog" in the world in the output of pilots for lighting and bombing. The latest British aeroplanes are so deadly that the Fokkers ilee whenever they are signalled. AMSTERDAM, August 30. Telegrams from Berlin speak vaguely of a new type of Zeppelins which will be sent to punish Italy and Rournania.

OPERATIONS ON THE BRITISH FRONT

SMALL GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED AT POZIERES. HAND-TO-HAND FY CUTTING AT OYILLERS. HERMANS CLAIM TO HAVE REPULSED BRITISH. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 30, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, August 30. Sir Douglas Haig reports that, apart from bombing encounters, the only infantry engagement was small German attacks on Pozieres windmill, which our fire quickly dispensed. Heavy thunderstorms hampered observation, but the Germans heavily shelled Deville Wood, Pozieres, and Authville and Thiepval Woods. There were duels at Quinchy, Givenchy, and Ypres. A German communique states that the English repeatedly attacked in considerable force between Thiepval and Pozieres, but failed, with sanguinary losses. Violent hand-to-hand lighting continues northward of Ovillers. We repulsed grenade attacks on Delville Wood and south-east of Guillemont.

THE REPULSE OF THE PRUSSIAH GUARDS

A FORTUNATE DISCOVERY BY A BRITISH RUNNER. ENEMY CAUGHT IN A STORM OF SHELL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 30, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, August 30. Mr Philip Gibbs publishes in the Daily Chronicle a dramatic story of the repulse of the Prussian Guard at Thiepval. The Wiltshires and Worcesters discovered the Prussians gathering for a counter-attack, and it was necessary to send runners to the rear to warn the commanders. Several tried, but all died. Finally one in sheer luck lost his direction, and staggered amid shell smoke and craters until he found himself on the edge of the German trenches, which were crowded with Prussians with fixed bayonets. He turned back and, surviving the German barrage, reached our rear lines unscathed. He delivered his message to the heavy batteries, which, in an officer's words, "were smashing the German lines in three shakes." The Prussians were caught in a storm of shell, and the trench was quickly filled with mangled bodies. The counter-attacks thereafter had no chance.

FRENCH AND SERBIAN PROfiRESS

COMPULSORY SERVICE

AVIATION ESTABLISHMENT DESTROYED.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S DECISION.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)

REFERENDUM TO BE TAKEN,

LONDON, August 29

A French official report states: "There is great artillery activity in the Lake Doiran region and on the banks of the Vardar, where we destroyed an aviation establishment. Westward of the lake we continue to make progress towards Djumenica. The Serbians pursued their advance towards Vetrenik, and have repelled strong Bulgarian attacks north-west of Lake Ostrovo and further southward."

deceived August 30, 9.50 p.m. MELBOURNE, August 30. -Mi' W. Hughes, the Federal Premier, stated in the House of Representatives that the Government had arrived at the conclusion that the present system of recruiting could not be relied upon to supply necessary reinforcements, and therefore considered there was only one course to pursue, and that was to ask the electors to agree to supply the deficiency by compulsion. It was proposed to take a referendum at the earliest possible moment, and if the majority approved compulsion would be applied to the extent that if sufficient volunteers responded thei;e would be no need fbr oompulsiion. The Government did not intend to apply compulsion to married men, youths under 20 years of age, single men with dependents, or remaining sons in families where one or more members had already volunteered until the supply of single men without dependents, is exhausted. It had been further decided that if within one month a sufficient number of recruits did not respond to the appeal a proclamation would issue under the Defence Act, calling up for training the necesary number of single men without dependents to make good the deficiency,;,., i Mr further elaborate the policy on Friday,

FIGHTING AROUND VERDUN

GERMANS CLAIM TO HAVE REPULSED FRENCH.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 30, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, August 30. A German. communique states that waves of French attackers between Thiaumont work and Fleury broke under our artillery machine-gun and rifle fire.

IN THE CARPATHIANS

GEMANS CLAIM SUCCESS ON THE DNIESTER. > ! r —siiixi: -• • ' / (High Commissioner's Cable.) Received August 30, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, August 30. A German communique states that we repulsed feeble Russian attacks northward of the Dniester. Fighting is faAing place in the Carpathians with the Russo-Roumanian vanguards.

A TOTAL LOSS

SUPER-ZEPPELIN EXPLODES.

Received August 30, 10.5 p.m. THE HAGLE, August 90. A super-Zeppelin, when blown by a gale while passing ever Belgium, felt from a height of 2000 ft and exploded!. Only debris and burned bodies were found.

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