A SHOCK FOR GERMANY
EXPECTED ROUMANIA'S HELP.<J TRANSYLVANIA TO BE ABANDONED* ENEMY UNABLE TO DEFEND THEIR LINES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) * - Received August 31, 11.5 a.m. NEW YORK, August 30. Berlin correspondents at Austrian headquarters forecast the abandonment of part of Transylvania by the Central Empires, owing to the necessity for shortening the front, which is very crooked, requiring a. large force to defend in its entirety. Wireless despatches from Berlin strongly indicate that Austro-Germany believed that Rouniania would be their ally to tti.' last. The shock caused by Roumania's entrance into the war on th'' side of the Allies is shown by the wild accusations of bad faith by the King and his Government. The Teutons evidently thought that the Roumanian statesmen were all on their side. It is reported from Berlin that fightin~ on the Roumanian frontier has begun, the Roumanians attacking in the direction of the Yoeroe Sturony Pass, Kronstadt and Hermannstadt. German sources report that the Roumanians were repulsed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13273, 31 August 1916, Page 5
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164A SHOCK FOR GERMANY Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13273, 31 August 1916, Page 5
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