The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1916. A GERMAN FAILURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 6 November 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1916. A GERMAN FAILURE.

It is now practically certain that Hinderfburg's plan to crush Roumania and by so doing frustrate the Allies' in their effort to cut German com-; niunications with Constantinople, has failed, and the timely help of the .Russian troops has enabled the Roumanian army to turn hack the (invaders. Germany will be seriously discomfited in this failure to secure ( a imost fertile land, in addition to ( tho menace from a military stand- ; point which comes by defeat at the hands of Roumania and the Allied troops on this front. The cessation of Roumanian oil supplies to Germany, amounting to fully 500,000 tons per annum, involves Germany in prospect of a petrol famine, and if can only hold out and resist the in-, voder it will assuredly be a most important factor in shortening the war. It seems an assured thing that she •will now be able to do so. The Allies are rendering all possible aid. and are I keeping the enemy fully occupied on all fronts. Italy especially is doing tremendous service by the great offensive which seems to haie turned the Austrian army which so proudly maroltod into Italy, into a mere fleet inc rjubble: General Brusiloff's g:-oat - activity in Galicia is also doubtless 1

designed, as a great counter move to the Austro-German operations in Transylvania, and Russia is pouring in reinforcements for the help of the Roumanians. Of course, wo cannot allow Roumania to go down if it is humanly possible to save her from German savagery. It has to bo remembered that the Roumanians entered the contest mainly for the purpose of delivering lour millions of their brethren from ten centuries of oppression, and over and above the glory of heating down tile empires of prey was the sure reward that their nation would be unified and democratised in a Greater Roumania with liberal land and franchise laws. On this all political parties were ; greeti. By tiie conquest of Transylvania and, the Bukovina Roumania was to be assured at one and the the same time, of her national ethnical and geographical unity, as well as of that social harmony which is necessary for any political structure "Roumania's entry into the war," said M. Take Jones'fcti, the distinguished Roumanian statesman, in a message to the London 1 Daily Chronicle, "is simply the outcome of the entire history of the Roumanian people. A Latin colony established astride the Carpathians, between the Black Sea and the Tissa, , the Magyar invasion had separated: lis into two. In spite of centuries- of political separation, the intellectual life of all Roumanians has been one and the same, and in every epoch the national aspiration on the two sides of the Carpathians has been lor union and a single independent State. Never before this war has the principle of nationality as the corollary of national sovereignty—that is to say, the right of every people to live according to its own genius—been declared as the foundation of political right in Europe. This principle was first declared by immortal France, but it has been the, English statesmen of this present epoch who have given it its definite consecration. So, too, are the British people for this principle; yet more than any conquest do they value being the champions of Right and Liberty. I know no greater good fortune than to be able to assist in the realisation of your national ideal, while serving at the) same time the cause of civilisation and a permanent future peace. Such is the case of the Roumanian people at this moment. For two years I have never ceased maintaining that even if Roumania had nothing to claim for herself, she owed it to her v own feeling ot" dignity and honor to draw the sword"'W the side of the Crusaders for the Right. The creation of a great Roumania,' which will convert us into a State of fourteen million inhabitants, is not only a Roumanian but a European interest. We must put Germany tato such a position that she will ririrl it materially impossible to start again that tragedy of armaments a outrance, which fatally fled to this monstvo.is war. We must put between Germanv and the Orient she covets, Statos sufficiently strong and representing a military worth sufficiently great to be able to resist all intrigues; and suffix ciently distant from the German spirit to be, by the nature of things, soldiers of civilisation against German cupidity. Magna Roumania will fulfil these three conditions. With our amazing racial fecundity we shall hare in forty years between the Tissa' and the Black Sea a State of 25,UC0,000 inhabitants; and for France, England, Russia and Italy this will be some recompense for their enormous sacrifices." There have been anxious days, but the stress is not now so great, and it is confidently believed the Allies will bo able to save Roumania from the accursed despoiler.