GERMAN PLOT TO STEAL KING FERDINAND’S THRONE.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 February 1918, Page 6

GERMAN PLOT TO STEAL KING FERDINAND’S THRONE.

i AMSTERDAM, The German Government is using every possible influence, especially among neutrals, to bring about an early peace between Germany and Austria and Roumania.

Instructions are issued daily to the press not to mention Roumania for the present and to make no criticisms concerning her. Efforts are also being made in Bucharest to bring about antiGovernment activity such as has been attempted in Belgium with the co-op-eration of a handful of traitors. The Germans have thus far found two Roumanians to do that work — Professor Store, editor of the German censored newspaper Lumina, and Dr_ Beldiman, a former Minister to Germany and a personal friend of the Kaiser, Both are agitating for a separate peace and for the future incorportiou of Roumania in the Central Empire’s sphere of economic interests The campaign is being conducted with “Down with the Jassy Government” as the watchword. Even Germans admit that their followers in Bucharest are few, in spite of all their efforts and especially their reprisals against loyal subjects. Germany, in fact, is openly charged by the Roumanians with a desire to steal the throne from King Ferdinand and give it to his brother Wilhelm, who has been an active propagandist in for Germany and HoTienzollernism in the Balkans during the war .