GENERAL ILIESCO.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 270, 31 October 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ILIESCO.

SPLENDID ORGANISER. RUMANIA’S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. The following remarkable appreciation of General Iliesco, [he Rumanian Commander-in-Chief, from the pen of the Bucharest correspondent of the “ Kolnische Zeitung.” was published in that paper on August 90th: — . - t * To the Rumanian officers who of late, in the expectation or hope of warlike events, have been mentioned most frequently belongs the Secretary-General of the Ministry of War, General Iliesco. His post is in any case of particular importance to the army. Its importance becomes still greater when the Minister at War, as the case is to-day, is not a piofturrinnfl man. As is well known, Premier himself discharges the duties of Minister of War. In such a case the Secretary-General is really the War Minister, .and if he in addition enjoys the necessary reputation, as • General Iliesco does, then his influence xs also decisive on the General Staff. ,• The great warlike development of the (Rumanian army which undoubtedly has peen going on since the Bulgarian campaign is justly regarded as the personal or the present SecretaryGeneral. General Iliesco, who has scarcely passed the middle of his forties, comes from the artillery branch, which he left not many years since for ' the General Staff. Lastly, he took up his present position on the formation of Bratiano Cabinet in 1913