RUSSIAN CATSPAW HELPS THE GERMANS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6853, 16 April 1917, Page 3

RUSSIAN CATSPAW HELPS THE GERMANS

Stunner Pushes Rumania Into War and HoWs Back Troops

Australian and N.Z Cable Assoc Rec April 15, 5.5 p.m. Paris, April 14. General IlieBCU, Chief of the Rumanian Staff, said Sturmer'a Government (Russia) deliberately pushed Rumania into the war to abandon her at the opening and finish the war when Rumania was invaded to the Sereth by proclaiming the triumph of the Centtal fEmpires, and Rumania would of necessity seek a separate peace. Stunner hoped peace would be due to defeat, which would not be a Russian defeat, or. shake... his power or the Czar's. Having thrust Rumania into the arena Stunner (the Russian Premier) held back four army corps and even stopped British and French consignments of. munitions. At Berliss trains were loaded with guns and aeroplanes, and were afterwards discovered in sidings and stations between Jaasy and Petrograd. The railway employees everywhere explained that the trains were lield up by government orders. Rumanian intervention was particularly desired by Germany, as the Hungarians and Bulgsrß were wears of war. The Rumanian peril was created in order to destroy their tendency towards independence, and Berlin chose August for Rumaoian intervention, Stunner being the mouthpiece of Germany's will.