BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1917, Page 5

BALKANS.

ROUMANIANS ANXIOUS. OVER RUSSIAN SITUATION. Australian Cable 'Association, Received June 10, 5.5 p.m. London, May 0. The Daily Chronicle's Roumanian correspondent telegraphs that the whole of Ifonmania is watching the Russian situation with' the greatest anxiety. Roumania is irrevocably bound to the Allies, and any defection on Russia's part will result in the disappearance of Roumania from the comity of nations. The army is ready and cagor, and waits the tignal for attack", but the indifference and inertia of Roumanian powerful neighbor paralyses its initiative. The guns and rifles are silent, while everywhere Germans are continually shower-*, ing down leaflets advocating peace and saying the Roumanians are the victims of French and English duplicity. German agents, disguised as Russian j officers, readily cross the frontier, seeking to overthrow, the Roumanian dyj nasty, hut the Roumanian soldier re- ' fuses to 'be cajoled into betraying hii King. ■ . ' AN INTRIGUE THAT FAILED. ! London, June 8. The Daily- Telegraph's -correspondent states that when King Constantino offered to intervene in the war on tho Allies' side his sole condition was General Sarraii's recall. The offer was de? vised by General, Dousmania withrthe obAj jcet of bringing down Venczelos and disorganising and dissolving his army.