The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-12-02
News of the World
ARMIES OF Won FALKENHAYN AND
Won MACKENSEN EFFECT JUNG
TION IN ROUMANIA
FATE OF RoUMANIA SEEMS SEALED

1t was announced from Berlin on Novem-
ber 26 that General Won Falkenhayn's troops,
invading Western Rounlania from the north
and west, had effected a junction with Field
marshall Won Mackensen's forces, which had
advanced from the south and crossed the Dan
ube into Roumanian territory. 1t was
stated that Won MackenSens advance had
reached the outskirts of Alexandria, forty
seven miles from the Roumanian capital.
The Roumanians, retreating eastward,
were reported as burning towns as they re-
tired.
S. J. Duncan Clark, military critic of the
Chicago Evening Post, who for months has
predicted the ultimate downfall of the cent
raj powers, admitted that, if these reports
were true, the fate of Bucharest, the Rouman-
ian capital, was sealed.
While commenting upon the fact that the
allies had refused to abandon hope that Rou-
mania might yet be extricated from her
plight, he predicted that shells would be fall
ing in Bucharest before Sunday, December 3,
unless there was very extraordinary change
in the situation.
The editorial writer of the Evemimg Post
had this to say:
Germany has astonished the world and
sadly disappointed her enemies by the promp-
titude, VigOr and success with which she has
met the Roumanian peril.
'Labored explanations of why the entente
allies allowed another small nation to fall
victim to the strategy and strength of the
central empires cannot detract in any de-
gree from the credit Teuton efficiency must
derive as consequence of this latest demon
"At the moment when the central empires
needed it most Germany has won another
victory. The neutral world will take it as
proof that Germany is far from the state
approaching exhaustion of resources in which
she has been depicted by her enemies. The
Teuton world will gain fresh heart.
'What does the victory mean, aside from
it's moral Importance and promising the COM
plete conquest of Roumania?
'It means shortening of the Teuton front
1t means the requirement of invaluable
sources of petroleum, richly fertile grain
fields and possibly, large stores of grain
"But it does not mean peace. 1t has no
decisive value and little strategic value. It
prolongs the war. It cannot end it"
BERLIN REPORTS THAT INVOLVING MOVE
MENTS OF ENTENTE ALLIES NORTH OF
MoNAsTIR HAVE BEEN CHECKED
Berlin reports of November 23 stated
that the involving movements of the entente
forces north of Monastir had been checked
on the east and west. Berlin wireless dis
patches of November 27 also stated that a
great attack delivered by the entente troops
along the Macedonian front, from Trnova,
northwest of Monastir, to Makovo, northeast
of that city, had failed.
GREEK GOVERNMENT APPARENTLY ToTTERING
The situation in Greece, according to cen
sored dispatches, is extremely critical, and it
would not be surprising should the overthrow
of the Greek government take place at any
time.
London reports of November % stated
that the demands of the entente allies for
the surrender by the Greek government of
part of it's supplies of arms and munitions,
had been refused