ROUMANIA'S REASONS FOR INTERVENTION

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13272, 30 August 1916, Page 5

ROUMANIA'S REASONS FOR INTERVENTION

DECLARATION CAUSES A PAINFUL SHOCK IN VIENNA.

POPULACE BELIEVED THAT THE DANGER HAD PASSED. (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received August 29, 8.13 p.m. LONDON, August 29. The German official message prefacing the declaration of war against Homuaoja, states that the latter had declared war against an ally after disgrace! y breaking treaties concluded with Germany and Austro-Hungary. GENEVA, August 29. A correspondent at Vienna, in a telegram, states that when the Roumanian .Minister delivered the declaration of war he simultaneously presented a document in connection with grievances, such as the prosecution of acts of violence against Roumanians in the dual monarchy. It adds that the agreements formerly attaching Roumania to the Triple Alliance ceased to exist from the day Germany and Austro-Hungary broke the alliance by forcing the withdrawal of Italy therefrom. The document proceeds to formulate the reasons dictating Roumania's entry into the war. Firstly: The anxiety for the Roumanians in Austro-Hungary, who are exposed to the risks of war and invasion. Secondly: Roumania, by intervention, believes that it will shortea the duration of the world war. Thirdly: Roumania will take a place alongside those Powers able most effectively to assist her to realise her national ideal. The decision caused a most painful shock in Vienna. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 29, 8.15 p.m. f* LONDON, August 29. The news of Roumania's decision reached London first from Berlin, via Amsterdam, followed by confirmatory messages in a few minutes from almost every Entente capital. The news caused general elation. It was too late to have much effect on the Stock Exchange, but it closed very cheerful, especially for foreign girt-edged securities. Wheat prices in the Baltic dropped two shillings. While-Germany had every reason to fear the Roumanians' antagonism, the German public seems to have befeh surprised and disgusted, as the newspaper? at the eleventh hour published correspondenits' despatches from Bucharest asserting that the danger was past. , ~,.. The Viennese press asserts that on Sunday Roumania refused the Russian request to allow the transport & troops. To-day the Austrian newspapers appear with large blank spaces, showing the censor's wholesale excisions. One result of Roumania's and Italy's declarations, to which prominence is given in London and Paris, is the effect on Germany, where it will be impossible longer to conceal from tha public Roumania's and Italy's view in regard to the future course of the war. . (. - . Widespread congratulations were offered to England and France, also to MM. Filipescu and Jonescu, whose pro-Entente efforts are fully recognised. A noteworthy revelation is made by the Paris newspaper Le Journal, which states that on the 2olh it received a letter from M. Filipescu, declaring: "We have not the slightest doubt as to the issue of the war. X beg you to henceforth consider the Roumanians among the ftetocs oeotrflmttog to its