ATTEMPT TO CRUSH ROUMANIA.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 234, 13 October 1916, Page 5

ATTEMPT TO CRUSH ROUMANIA.

MOTIVES OF THE CENTRAL

POWERS

(The Times SerTi'ee.) * (Received Get. 13, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON. Oct. 12.

In the Roumahian Parliament M. UasHesco said: ?'I believe that the. folio-whig aro the motives of the Cen"tral PowtsTs' attempt to crueli Roumania. Victory moan consolidation of the German mastery from tho North 'Sea io the Persian Gulf, "tho invasion of Emssia in the couth "ria Bessarabia, tae control of the /Blacl^ Sea, and pirhaps a decisive victory in tho Easi, also the securing of vast Roumanian stores of corn, petroleum, benzine, mineral-oils,, salt, timber, the goods ralway system of tho I>an;ube transport beside the crop4 f " He exhorted the ; Allies to do th^ir utmost to protect Roumania, thereby .rfiortening the wita^ajid saving millions of lives and hundreds of millions of money. ) ■ ■. ■