ROUMANIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1917, Page 6

ROUMANIA.

ROUMANIA FORCED TO FIGHT. \ , """""" AND LEFT IN THE LURCH i &j RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, |i CERMAN MAOHCvATIOJ, AGAIN i . Received April 15, 525 p.ntf (Paris, Apr 114. General Jliesou, chief of the Roumanian staff, hag revealed that Stunner's [(Russian) Government deliberately (nished Roumania into the war, to abandon her at a. favorable opening near the finish of the war when Roumania was Jnvaded in the Sereth, by proclaiming the (triumph of the Central Empires. RouQanit'g necessity, he stated, was for a Separate peace, but he hoped peace Would he due to a defeat which was not B Russian defeat. Having thrust Routnania into the arena, Stunner held back four ahny corps, and even stopped _ the British and French consignments of j munitions to Berliss. Trains loaded with guns and aeroplanes were aft (*- wards discovered at sidings and stations between Jassy and Petrograd. The railway employees everywhere' explained that the trains were held up by {he Sussiatv Government's orders. Roumatiil's intervention war particularly desired by Germany, as tiie Hungarians and Bulgars were weary of the war, and the Boumania peril was created In order to destroy their tendency towards independence. Berlin chose August fer Roumanian intervention, {Stunner being the mouthpiece of the fifwill. *■ ' 1 ~" "