Second Edition. ROUMANIA’S PLAIN DUTY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14745, 26 October 1915, Page 7

Second Edition. ROUMANIA’S PLAIN DUTY.

?, TO GO TO SERVIA’S ASSISTANCE. . Received October 26, 2.35 p.m. BUCHAREST, October 25. M. Filipesco, a Unionist, in a sensational speech, accused the Government of evasion concerning military supplies. He pointed out that the German /treaty with Bulgaria was conclude.i in August, 1914, and Houmania, having i arranged an alliance with Greece and Servia, ought to go to Servia s assistance. M. Takejonescu said the Opposition could no longer support the Government in delaying participation in the war, which was materially and morally necessary.

PROSPECTS AT GALLIPOLI.

ANOTHER ASHMEAD BARTLETT SCREED.

ALLIES DETERMINED TO PUSH ON TO CONSTANTINOPLE.

Pr«H Association. —Telegraph—Copyright. Received October 26, 2.45 p.m. LONDON, October 25. There Is much discussion as to the prospects at Gallipoli. The concensus of expert opinion is that the Government la aa determined as ever to push . on to Constantinople. Mr Aahmead Bartlett, in an article In the Dally Telegraph on the Dardanelles expedition, says It is an excellent example of the Britishers’ peculiar habit of conceiving great schemes and rushing into them at a moment’s notice, without counting the cost Officers and men show wonderful ability to adapt themselves, and this takes the place of the years of study devoted by foreign general staffs. Our method allows us to grs dually pile up weight. When we lost three battleships at the Dardanelles the Near East believed the expedition was doomed to failure. When an army inadequate in numbers appeared the opinion was not changed, but now the Near East’s view is changing to admiration as it realises that we are determined to see the show thiot gh. The Fleet has had an enormous responsibility in guarding the flanks of the Army, but after the Goliath was torpedoed the Annv’s right wing was left to take care of itself, and at night time the warships were withdrawn from the danger points in the straits. German submarines had a wonderful chance I of sinking British warships, and one admires the enterprise of the commanders. but thinks the British submarines, with similar opportunities, would have done better. The admiral continually transferred his flag to smaller and less valuable vessels. All the ships remaining eairv oitf their duties with the same precision and coolness as the earlier vessels, though they are twelve to twenty rears okler. and would have been . scrapped but for the war.

AIR RAID VICTIMS.

FURTHER INQUESTS. Received October 26,-2.20 p.m. LONDON, October 25. Further air raid inquests have been held on two victims, who have since succumbed. An elderly platelayer and • girl refuged in a hotel, where eight were killed by a bomb which dropped 12 yards away, the windows and woodwork being blown in. The man’s leg was broken, and the bomb made a hole In the road 9ft wide and sft deep, opening into a sewer. The girl died of blood poisoning as the result of a wound from a fragment of a bomb.

GERMAN PLOTTING IN AMERICA.

CONSPIRACY TO CRIPPLE SHIPS. Received October 26. 2.20 p.m. NEW YORK, October 25. Fay confessed to being a lieutenant in the German army. He arrived from Germany recently, to experiment with a machine intended to be fastened to ships’ rudders when leaving New York, blow up their steering gear and compel them to return to the nearest port. Two other conspirators are under examination by the police.