ROUMANIA AND BULGARIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 220, 4 June 1915, Page 4

ROUMANIA AND BULGARIA.

The fearful struggle that is now going on in Galicia, and right along the Russian front up as far as due west of Warsaw, is of supreme importance to the Allies. If Russia is signally beaten it will, in all probability, effect feeling in Bourn a iiia, and Bulgaria as to do lay their inevitable entry into the conflict. It may be gathered from tho enthusiasm and excitement in Eonmania, favouring intervention, together with the persistent rumours that these two countries have patched up their differences so far as to enable them to fight shoulder to shoulder, that these people, with some of their military experts present on tho actual battle ground, arc able to form a more correct opinion of how the fortunes of battle are tending, than we aro with drastically censored accounts of what is taking place. From their desire for immediate intervention it seems that although Russia may have reverses, and may have to fall back before madly conceived onslaughts undertaken largely for impressing neutrals, her armies must succeed in the end. It is as well to understad that, although Roumania has a fully equipped army of half-a-miilion ready to take the field, that her artillery is armed with the finest Krupp and Crcusot guns, of modern pattern; that she has wellseasoned cavalry that took a notable part in the late Balkan wars, she is unable, financially, to undertake any campaign that promises to be of any great duration. It may therefore be gathered that Roumania sees the end is near, and, therefore,, that she can safely embark in a struggle that will add to her prestige as a nation, if nothing else, when it is over, neither Roumania or Bulgaria could stand the financial strain of a long war, and it may be because they think, from dose observations, that tho end is within sight that they have agreed upon a basis of settlement of old troubles, and have mutually decided to take a hand in the final crushing of Germany’s terrific bid for world domination. This is a reasonable view to take, for no one with any knowledge of international politics would believe that nations in the finan--cial position that Roumania and Bulgaria are would throw themselves Into a struggle that would impoverish them in a few months and bring about a state of famine and starvation among the people of their respective countries. Italian intervention has, of course, influenced them, but nothing but a. firm belief in a short campaign, or an assured plentiful supply of money would induce them to intervene. There is every reason to hope that both countries will soon throw In their weight against the enemy of their national integrity.