CENTRAL POWERS AND ROUMANIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14666, 21 March 1918, Page 5

CENTRAL POWERS AND ROUMANIA.

DELAY OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS REFUSED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

. . , Parts, March 18. A telegram from Jassy states that JMackensen refuses to delay negotiations with'Roumania.on the plea of the Ministerial crisis, and las informed the Roumanian plenipotentiaries that unless the clauses in the preliminary draft are accepted by March 19th the peace conditions will be more severe. Mackensen also insists that General Averescu be excluded from the new Cabinet. ;

Mackensen las giv«n Roumsmia a list of thirty, prominent men-whor ?nust be. removed to Switzerland, ■ incluQin^; M. Bratiano, the ex-Prcpiier. - ! A Sofia telegram stages ;tliat . General Avevescu has resigned the Premierv ship owing to,*an attempt to assassinate him.' - ..