LATE KING OF ROUMANIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 5

LATE KING OF ROUMANIA.

TRUCES IN THE TRENCHES

HARDSHIPS OF THE WOUNDED

SUFFERERS UNDER FIRE

LONDON, Oct. 17

(Received Oct. 18,. 8 p.m.)

The will of the late King of Roumania expresses tope that his* successor will adopt tke principle he himself followed, "all for the country ; nothing for himself." He forgave his calumniators,, and desired to be buried in a general's undress uniform and to have his coffin borne by a gun-carriage captured at Plevna with six white horses and. no black drapery. His personal property exceeds, four million sterling. Germany has protested at Belgian Parliamentary delivery of anti-German lectures in Italy on the ground that it is a breach of Italian neutrality. The report of the commission on Austrian mines in the Adriatic states that they were originally fixed by chains, but some broke .and currents carried the mines to the Italian coast. A correspondent says that sometimes the combatants in the trenches agree fco. a truce for rest, when the French sleep or play cards and the Germans enjoy music arid singing. A correspondent supplies a vivid picture of the sufferings of some wounded who were sheltering in a farmhouse, when German artillery was concentrated thereon in the belief that it held French guns. French and German uniforms were mixed anyhow. A sufferer asked for a drink, lifted himself, and a bullet struck him through the heart. Suddenly the plaster ceiling cracked, revealing the head of a shell. A terrific explosion followed, and the house was wrecked by shells. The wounded were carried to a cellar. The Germans gave rein to their exasperation.. Not having eaten for three days, they were exhausted and lost patience, and asked why must the war continue when it is costing so many lives and since defeat is inevitable. They desire defeat rather than-victory as a, national deliverance. During four terrible hours the wounded were kept in a suffocating cellar with shells constantly falling and men dying all round. Eventually they were removed when the house was a smoking ruin.