ROUMANIAN ACTION

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

ROUMANIAN ACTION

AMERICAN OPINION. MOST PROPITIOUS FOR THE ALLIES. APPRECIABLY SHORTEN THE WAfl OEM.MANY'S OIL SUPPLIES CUT OFI (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August .{O, <> a.m. NEW YORK, August 29. Americans in Bucharest interviewee .M. Take .loncseue, who said: "Onlj a great (iennan victory could have cheeked Roumanian intervention. Out entry will shorten the war by at least six months. Our most valuable reward will be Transylvania. Hungary will lose a-quarter of her territory, our intervention hastens Bulgaria's doom, cuts off Turkey, and expedites the fall of Constantinople an.l the opening of the Dandanelles." A telegram from Washington reports that in Slate circles Roumania's entry into the war is regarded as the most propitious event for the allies since the battle of the Marne. Mr MacKallum, the manager of the largest oil company in Roumania, who lias been interview.'.l, says that factories in Roumania have been working day and night for months making munitions. The country is now thoroughly equipped. He states that the Central Powers have been depending largely on Roumania's ,-reat petrol supplies, of which they are now deprived. PARIS, August 29. The Temps"says that the enemy has already lost the military initiative, and now sees her diplomacy miscarry. The decisions of Italy and of Roumania clearly show that a change has come over Ihe srreat panic in which the world's future is staked. There, are

signs of victory on the horizon. The Journal des f>.]>;its says the declaration of war will help the allies to accomplish their task and to ..convince Hi** Hermans that Providence does not approve her dominion over the world.