THE RUMANIAN REVERSE

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 90, 16 April 1917, Page 7

THE RUMANIAN REVERSE

PERFIDY OF A RUSSIAN PREMIER

REVELATIONS BY CHIEF-OF-STAFF /

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PARIS, 14th April. - General Iliescu, Chief of the Rumanian General Staff, has revealed the fact that M. Stunner's (pro-German ex-Premier of Russia) Governmqiit deliberately pushed Rumania into the war to abandon her, hoping to finish the war when Rumania was invaded to the Sereth, by proclaiming that -the triumph of the Central Empires over Rumania had necessitated a separate peace. He hoped for a peace which would be. due to a defeat which was not a Russian defeat, co that it would not shako his power or that of the Tsar. Having thrust Rumania into the arena, Stunner held back four army corps corps, and even stopped the British and French consignments of munitions. Various trains, loaded with guns and aeroplanes, were afterwards discovered on sidings at stations, between Jassy and Petrograd, and the railway employees everywhere explained that the trains were held up by Government Rumania's intervention was particularly desired by Germany, as the Hungarians and Bulgars were weary of the war. Tho Rumanian peril was created in order to destroy their tendency I'towards an attitude of independence. Berlin chose August for Rumania's intervention, Stunner being the mouthpiece of the German will. ■ , ''