THE BALKAN STATES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 4, 8 December 1915, Page 4

THE BALKAN STATES.

Writing in tlio English Review of September, Dr. E. J. Dillon made some remarks which apply now as well as then. '/Rumania's behaviour is of n piece, with that of her neighbours. Jn October when Russia's armies were in Bukowina; the opportune moment was at hand for her entry into the arena. And her assurances that she would take this course were profuse and emphatic. On the strength --of them she obtained assistance from the Allies. But the Bulgarian spectre projected by Berlin into her field of vision retarded her action, and Aust'roGerman promises and threats have since paralysed her will. She has lately endeavoured to obtain further favours from the Allies, through whose good offices she had been awarded part of the Dobrudja shortly before the Bucharest ! " i co'nferenc , e. But,, loth jto cut'it stick for their own backs, they signified 1 their resolve to wait- Untilj it became clear for : whose behoof" ijho amis requisite would be employed. 'Thereupon J M. Bratrano (the Premifr) appeAlM'to 'Tienh'a, and the Austri}m statesmen, confident that they; at any 'rate, had nd need to ask for gua'ran 'tees, despatched the munitions asked for.' 'Austria-Hungary,' the Rumanian Premier exclaimed, recently, to, a certain Minister Plenipotentiary, 'has confidence in us. And it is not misplaced. .This very day we have received from that country twenty wagVons laden with cartridges and projectiles.'" ;!/'_ 'ji ifJ „_/; .'"/■