The Archive · 1916

Rumania and the Entente

Petrograd, Feb. 10, The Russians by forcing a pastage across the Dniester threaten the enemy positions at Czernowitz.

According to the statement of prisoners the Austro-Germans' desperate defence of -Czernowitz, where they have sustained enormous losses, due to an Army Order declaring that the fall of Czernowitz will cause Rumania to join the Entente.

STAND OF ALLIES AT pressed regret and the readiness VALVA. of the German Government to pay indemnity for the damage.

London, Feb. 10.

An Austrian communique makes the first mention of contact with the Italian forces in Albania. It says that a force of Servians, Italians and Essad Pasha's Albaniretreating before the advance of the Austrians, made o stand at Valva, five miles northwest of Tirana, The communique declares that the disarmament of the Montenegrins has been completed.

The ce-operation between the French and Italians has already asserted itself by the gathering of the Servian army under the protection of the French and Italian fleets. A hundred thousand Bervious have been quartered on Corfu, where French officers are putting them in shape again.

London, Feb. 10.

The French have occupied the Island of Fane, north of Corfu. Athens, Feb, 10.

A French air squadron bombed Smyrna on Tuesday.

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