THE ROUMANIANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 1

THE ROUMANIANS.

KNOW THE PRTJR&TANS AVEIJi. TIMJE TO THE ALI.IEB. London, January »3U. Tho clover I3riti»h journalist who dined at tho banquoL given to the Kaiser at iS'ifsli ;iml tourt'd the Balkans, also passed lour peauciul days in ltoiuuauia. 110 found tho assembly thoroughly pi'o-iVUy, but pro-Friaifli. Tlio pcoplw particularly liate Austria-Hungary, and the whole Hounianian army is crazy J'oj , war. Tho closed blinds ol railway carriages indicate that military p'rcinvratiQUs aro |Hocecding. li.ouinauiaii* oflicer« are dissatisfied at the slowness of Allied progress, but are firm believers in tho eventual victory. They assured nio that there was much influence and pressure exercised to induce them to join Germany. Newspapers publish much French and Italian army news, and the British Government should emulate this publicity. The country is over-run with German spies, and Germans are publishing many Roumanian newspapers. Bribery is rife, tho Germans endeavouring to keep the country neutral, find they exaggerate the mishaps of the Allirp,"pointing out the hopelessness of their triumph. ' The chief fliuiuu is that of the Dardanelles, and the effect of English defeats and the withdrawal is bad. Nevertheless, the f.iGfpnanJans are good judges of I'rustfiiui cliafHuiui- - , pud would fight to the last yuan rather thai) s!]!)»Mit to Prussian despotism,