ROUMANIAN'S ENTRY

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13461, 16 April 1917, Page 5

ROUMANIAN'S ENTRY

BETRAYED BY RUSSIAN PREMIER

ENGINEERED BY GERMANY

(Australian and N.Z. and Reuter.) PARIS, April 15. A statement has been made l.y General Uiescu, Chief of the Roumanian General Staff, revealing that the Government of M. Boris Stunner deliberately pushed Roumania into the war, with the intention of abandoning her at the opening of the campaign and of finishing the war when Roumania was invaded to the Sereth, by proclaiming the truimph of the Central Empires, as it expected that Roumania would have found it necessary to conclude a, separate peace. I M. Sturmer hoped that peace would be due to a defeat which was not a Russian defeat, and which would not shake his power or that of the Czar.

Having thrust Roumania into the arena, M. Sturmer held hack four army corps, and even stopped British and French consignments of munitions. Trains loaded with guns and aeroplanes were afterwards discovered on sidings at stations between Jassy and Petrograd. Railway employees everywhere explained that the trains were held up under Government orders.

Intervention bv Roumania .was particularly desired by Germany, as the Hungarians and the Bulgarians wer* weary of the war, and the Roumanian peril was created in order to destroy their tendency towards independence Berlin chose August for Roumanian intervention, Sturmer's Government being the mouthpiece of the German wijl.