UGLY DISCLOSURE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3054, 16 April 1917, Page 5

UGLY DISCLOSURE

RUMANIA'S BETRAYER

RUSSIA'S PRO-GERMAN EX-PREMIER

A DEEP-LAID GERMAN SCHEME

(Rec. April 15, 5.5 p.m.)

Paris, Ipril 14,

General Iliescu, Ohief of the Humaninn General Staff, has revealed the fact thai; Ai. Sturmer's.(pro-German ex-Pre-niier of Russia) Government, deliberately pushed Rumania into the war to abandon her, hoping to finish the war when Rumania was invaded to'the Sereth, by. proclainiiuK that the 1 triumph of the Central Empires over ..Rumania had necessitated a separate peace. He hoped for" a peace which would be. due to a defeat which was not a Russian defeat, so that it would not shake his power or that of the Tsar. _ ,'.__ : Having thrust Rumania, into -'the. .arena, Sturmer held back four corps, and even, stopped tie British! and French consignments of munitions j Various trams, loaded,with guns and aeroplanes, wero afterwards discovered on sidings' at stations, between Ja«sy and Petrograd, and the railway employees everywhere explained that the trains were held up by Government orders. Rumania's intervention: was particularly desired by Germany, as the Hungarians and Bulgars were weary of , the war. The Rumanian peril was created in order to destroy their tendency towards an attitude of . independence. Berlin chose August for Rumania's intervention, Sturmer being'the mouthpiece of the German will.-7-Aus:-N.Z. Cable Assn. .