ROUMANIA'S ATTITUDE.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15452, 3 December 1915, Page 7

ROUMANIA'S ATTITUDE.

CONFLICTING REPORTS. OPTIMISM IN PARIS. ("Times" and "Sydney Sun" Scrviccs.^ (Rurcived I>eccniber 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 1. The I'aris Press says news lias been received from Salon ica that German aviation stations are being organised along the Bulgarian coast. It is authoritatively stated that 120,000 Tuiks are to be sent to assist in the defeneo of .Bulgaria, and that 50,000 Austro-German troops are arriving at Rustchuk. where the concentration is intended to impress Roumania, who has closed the Danube to the Bulgarian frontier, nnd is claiming the right to police the river. The correspondent of "Tho Times" at Bucharest savs that largo supplies of munitions, including seven looomotives, have arrived at Rustchuk, where quarters are being prepared for tho AustroGerman troops in the schools and other public buildings. Roumania insists upon Roumanian pilots boarding all vessels on the Danube. There are conflicting messages from Bucharest. The Danish Press asserts that Roumania has notifiod Russia of her earnest wish to remain neutral, and that consequently she will not allow tho Russian fleet to enter the Danube. Roumania emphasises the danger to ships from mines laid in tho river. Tho Danish papers also state that Roumanians aro forming a so-called Patriotic Leaguo, whose programme advocates the conquest" of Bessarabia and tho joining of Roumania with the Central Powers. M. Mnghiloinan and other ex-Ministers are said to have joinec-tho League. Opinion in London regards tho .Danish Press as being tho victims of tho despairing efforts of German agents. The Paris newspapers assert that there is every reason for optimism, and that the entry of Roumania into tho war on the side of the Allies is assured.

The correspondent of "Le Temps" at Bucharest says tho German Minister recently remarked: "I am less considered here than the representative of Montenegro." Other telegrams announce that tho port of Kola, on the Arctic Ocean const of Russia. is being enlarged to receive shipments of and that Roumania has arranged for the transportation of Russian munitions and access to licr railways. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rcccivcd December 2nd. 7.20 p.m.) ATHENS, December 1. Mr M. Donohoc says that, despite M. Bratiano ? s reiteration of th«j neutrality of Rouinania, it is believed that renewed Austro-Gernian influences have to some degree been successful, as the result of tempting offers of territorial confessions dandled before M. Bratiano. BUCHAREST, December J "While reading his speech at the opening of Parliament, the King of Rouinania v.as obliged to pause owing to members of the Opposition cryir.g "Down with G'rma™y and Hungary!" and "Load us into Transylvania." * Ministerialists tried to drown their shouts with cheers. Mines are being laid in the Rou maman waters of the lower Danube CONCENTRATIONS OF TROOPS. REPORTED lIUSSTAN" INVASION OF BUKOWINA. (Received De:ro>r.ber 2nd. 8.15 p.m.) ROME, December 2. Tho Milan newspaper. "Corriere Delia Sera," says the Russians have invaded Bukowina, and captured Sadagora and Mashala. The Russian concentration on the Danube continues. Ibe Roumanians are concentrating more troops on the Austrian frontier. ftadagora and Ma::;rJa arc a few miles irom the frontier of Hcssarabia, and north, of the river Pruth. Sadai:ora is on the main load, which runs parallel with the river, and is about rour mijes north of Czernovitz on the I south .siue of tho river. For a fewmiles tho Pruth divides the north-west corner of Roumania from Bukowina, ami then forms the bounuaiv between Koumania and Bessarabia "

GERMAN PREPARATIONS. BULGARIANS FOR GALLIPOLI PENINSCLA. (Received December L'nd, 11.1.5 p.m.) ROME. December 2. Reports from Bucharest state that the Germans have withdrawn largo forces from Bulgaria and Serbia to meet the Russian offensive in Galicia and Bukowina. Several battalions of Bulgarians have been sent to Gallipoli Peninsula, instead or Germans. as * originally planned.