The situation in Rumania has not improved, but is no
worse than when we wrote last week. Heavy fighting continues from the Transylvanian frontier as far as Braila, on the Danube. In Great Wallachia the Germans claim to have taken over seven thousand prisoners, and after stubborn resistance Filipesti, on the railway from Buzeu to Braila, has been abandoned by the Russians. But the rate of Mackensen's progress has sensibly slackened. The Rumanians have achieved minor successes in the Moldavian frontier, their left wing is resting on the marshes of the Danube, and the Germans are still a long way from the lines of the Sereth. There is no change in the Dobrudja, and if the conditions of the last three winters are repeated, during which the Delta has been free from ice, they will prove greatly to the assistance of the Allies. Meanwhile Russian reinforcements are slowly but steadily coming in from the north-east of Bucharest, and, according to Russian correspondents, the calmness and composure shown by the King in his recent speech are shared by his Army and people.
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