11 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 1

The news from Rumania is improving in quality. In the

first place the Allied troops in the Dobrudja have not merely stopped retreating, but have turned round and resumed the offensive. On Thursday they were reported to be advancing to the attack of Macken.sen's army. In the Carpathian passes the fighting still continues, but though there have been a few local German successes, the enemy have not made any real contribution to their grandiose policy of the rapid and total destruction of the Rumanian kingdom In the north-west borders of Rumania and the Bukovina the Russians are also advancing, and are already said to have penetrated nearly five miles into Transylvanian territory.