WHAT ROUMANIA MEANS.
A GREIA.T OBJECTIVE
AIMS OF CENTRAL POWERS,
("Times" Cable). (Press Assn.—Reed. 9-50 a.m.)
LONDON, October 12
Speaking in the Roumanian Parliament, M. Basilesco said he believed that the following were the motives of the Central Powers in trying to crush Roumania: —
Victory for the Central Powers would mean the consolidation of Ge v - many; mastery of the North Sea and the Persian Gulf; invasion of Russia in the south via Bessarabia; control of the Black Sea; perhaps a victory in the east; a!so the securinfe of vast Roumanian stores of corn, petroleum, benzine, mineral oils, salt, an i timber; likewise tho railways system of the Danube and transport, besides crops. He exhorts the Allies to do their almost to protect Roumania, thereby shortening the war and saving millions of lives and hundreds of millions cf money.
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Northern Advocate, 13 October 1916, Page 3
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