ROUMANIA TO INTERVENE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14744, 25 October 1915, Page 5

ROUMANIA TO INTERVENE.

ON THE SIDE OF THE ALLJES. PREPARING TO ATTACK BULGARIA. LONDON, October 24. Bucharest messages state that Roumania stipulates, as a condtiion of Intervention. that the Allies must send to tie Balkans 400,000 men, thus enabling Roumania to concentrate the whole ol her forces in the Carpathians. Britain and France are said to have accepted ihe offer, and Roumania is preparing to attack Bulgaria.—Times and Sydney Sun Services. 600,000 ROUMANIANS READY. ■ 320,000 IN THE CARPATHIANS. LONDON, October 24. The Novoe Vremya publishes an interview with the Roumanian envoy, a near relative of M. Bratiano, Premier • f Roumania, who has arrived In Petrograd on a special mission on behalf of fie Roumanian Foreign Office. He states emphatically that the army and navy is wholly on the side of the Allies. All are convinced that Roumania will shortly abandon neutrality. The delay is due to the absence of an adequate sup; ly of munitions. There is almost ready an army of 600,000, increasable to l.li 0,000, The War Office has already concentrated 320,000 in the Carpathians ROUMANI US ARMY. A FINE FIGHTING FORCE. Those .who have had an opportunit ■ seeing the various Balkan armies, says a military expert, are confident in their belief that the two best are the Roumanian and the Bulgarian, and then' is generally a little bit of a leaning towards the former, perhaps for the reason that it is a smarter-dressed, more vivid little force than that of any other Balkan State. The reserves would increase tho total to, roughly, 650,000,, and by calling up the militia the Government could place in the fighting line a "rand total of 800,000 trained warriors. The infantry carries the Manmicher rifle, .256 calibre, of the latest model, and has a splendid supply of machine-guns. lis men am enthusiastic about their business. Indeed, a great German military authority holds the opinion that the Rumanian infantry force is, for its the finest in the world. The field armv is composed of about 500,100 men, vi-eedinuly well armed and equipped. Roumania is well provided with ait llery, there being an allowance of 110 big guns to each army corps. The chie tyne is the latest model Krupp quickfirer, but it has been stated that lately t 'e War Department has obtained some of the 76mm. Du port guns, the famou. French 75’s. The artillery counts 20 regiments, with five regiments of reserves, live howitzer divisions, three horse artillery batteries, 22 companies of fortrr ss artillery, 20 regiments of cavalry, seven engineer battalions, and other dc*.' ils. The nation’s navy is a negligible quantity. But the fortifications are a f< attire of Roumania’s defences. Galatz, on the Danube, at the mouth of the Rive" Soreth, has three lines of fortifications, and NemOlassa. on the Sereth its* If, has two lines. Again at Foscani, to the north-west, near the Sev+h are isive works in three lines. All these are in the nature of entrenched camps and are armed with numerous Krupp and Gruson guns. Around Bucharest at iri forts and many batteries.

PRO-ALLIES DEMONSTRATION. \

Received October 25, 9.25 a.m. ■ BUCHAREST, October 24. Interventionists rioted outside the German Embassy. Many were arrested.