WAR PREDICTED.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1924, Page 2

WAR PREDICTED.

BUCHAREST DISASTER.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION A CENSORSHIP STARTS. LONDON, May 31. There has been a mysterious stoppage of direct news from Bucharest to I/oiulon. This still continues. INQUIRY' INTO DISASTERS. VIENNA, May 31. It is believed that a censorship has been imposed for military reasons. A Parliamentary Commission has been apopinted to fix the responsibility for the Bucharest explosion, but it is generally assumed that it is due to incendiarism. Bolsheviks operating on the frontier are suspected, in view of tho strained state of the Rtisso-Roumaiiian relations. The condition of the Roumanian Army is now jeopardised, as it will lie impossible to replace the loss quickly. Consequently, there is uneasiness and anxiety. Provisional estimates set down the loss at -10,000.000 infantry cartridges, several thousand wagon loans of shells, also' three train loads of equipment, which had just arrived from France. The Army's central provisioning and uniform depots were destroyed. EARLY WAR. PREDICTED. FOR BESSARABIA. LONDON. May 31. Tho “Daily Express” special correspondent reporting after having made leiigth.v inquiries ill Roumania and Bessarabia, says:—“The itidications point to the fact that there will lie a Russo-Rouiiuuiiaii war. It will be for pcssession of Bessarabia. It will occur in the near future. “’flic Roumanian General StnfT has had information showing that tho Russian foreign policy bax remained unchanged si lice the Revolution, Constantinople being still the ultimate objective.

“Tbe first step will be an attempt to seize the mouth of the river Danube.”

THE DAMAGE. BUCHAREST, May 29. Ail official cemmuniqe, whin'll lias been delayed by the Censor, states that tbe explosions of munitions began at night, and they set fire to three magazines, several supply depots, the army workshops, a block of barrack buildings and a number of private houses. Prompt measures by the authorities saved great quantities of munitions and restricted the fire to one area. The communique states: “The ammunition store destroyed is only one of many possessed bv the army. Thus no great disaster has occurred. Four persons were killed, and twenty were wounded. The report that a shell fell oil the Royal Palace is untrue. BUCHAREST May 30. It is estimated two billion lei worth of damage was caused by the big sin'll explosions at tho arsenal, which continue. King Ferdinand narrowly escaped ns_ a shell exploded on a spot which he had just vacated,