ROUMANIAN BETRAYER.
A NATURALISED GERMAN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Feb. 15, 5.5 p.m.) BUCHAREST. Feb. 15. It has been discovered that General Socecu is a naturalised German. [Recently General .Socecu was condemned .by a court-martial at Jassy to five years’ -penal servitude and degradation for betraying the Roumanian army under his command on December 1. Executing a plan by General Berthelot, head of the French mission' in Southern, Roumania, the army made a vigorous offensive on the river Argeliu against German arid Bulgarian troops who had crossed the Danube and were advancing on Bucharest. The enemy were thrown hack in disorder a dozen miles, and General Socecu’s army turijed the enemy’s left, cutting them completely from General Falkenhayn’s army. General Berthelot wirelessed to Paris announcing the success, _ and adding that. he intended to drive General Mackensen over the Danube,_ but General Socecu, instead of continuing the pursuit, remained , inactive, and when ordered to advance commanded his army to retreat. Thus Mackensen was saved.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4475, 16 February 1917, Page 5
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165ROUMANIAN BETRAYER. Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4475, 16 February 1917, Page 5
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