2 DECEMBER 1916, Page 1

The news from the Rumanian front is meagre in detail,

but as we write on Thursday the position appears to be as follows. The Germans have consolidated the junction between their army coming across the Danube from the south and the army pressing on from the west. That joint army is now rapidly marching due cast towards Bucharest. In front of it the Rumanian Army is retreating, abandoning, as is of course inevitable, large tracts of territory to enemy occupation. How far the Germans are likely to have advanced end the Rumanians to have fallen back by the time these pages are in our readers' hands it is impossible to say, but no doubt it UM be a point very near the capital.