BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 February 1916, Page 5

BALKANS.

! ROMANIA READf. • ; ON THE ALIES' SIDE, ■.' Bucharest, Feb. 2L The first line army of a quarter of a million is fully trained and on a, war footing. The influence of the interventionist! is growing daily. Many prominent socialists and democrats have jained the war party. M. Filipescu has gone to Petrograd on a secret mission NEW LEVANT ARMY. TRIBUTE TO COLONIAL SOLDIERS. SOUTH AFRICANS AND LASIANS COMPARE!* 'i London, February 20, A special English correspondent at ' Cairo reports that the three SoutUten dominions have contributed largely to the.new Levant army. Anyone in Cairo might think that Australasia, and not 1 Britain, occupied the land. Big men with the Rising Sun badge are everywhere, supplying guards and patrols and filling shops, thus imparting their martial preparedness. The number* Are rapidly growing. Fresh drafts arrive every other day for the old Australian and New Zealand divisions and now formations. New Zealand is doubling and trebling its contingent, and Mia Southern dominions' army may be formed of Australians, New Zealandcra and South Africans who are hero and are en route. One could not wish for r finer bMy than the South Africans. They arc not quite equal to the extraordinary average height of the Australians, but »:'e second tonone in physical fitness. Tho 19th have been hardened in German South Africa, and will not fail In any test of endurance. Of the infantry many would have preferred to be in tho mounted service, but being eager to meet the Germans in Europe, enliated as infantrymen at the British rates of . pay, sacrificing the higher rate offered - for service in East Africa. ■ ' ; * The Australians and New Zealan3erf ■.' prefer to do the same, as all want' to ■ fight the Germans where they ate r,;| strongest. The Australians are notable _ * among those who love a fight for itielf, < and they are longing to disprove the, •: German boast that the troops of tho; Fatherland are the be* Sghting men onj - ". earth. After doing that they say, thejj will again attend to tho Turks. |. / Several transports with New ZwV landers have recently arrived,, the nM| being of the kind who proved thrift -, mettle at Ansae. 'AH the men As<«» the pink of condition. The men'front ,' th e dominions do everything well, in! ■■ feeding,' clothing and fighting, «»J '■■'■s ■' Australian and. New Z{sla.njL*W* let 4 hlah iianfoft km fflMft