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Show RUMANIA SENDS MISSION. A war mission from Rumania is on the way to the United States to take part in the conferences" in relation to the conduct of the war and to claim a share in the loan vote4 to the allies : by congress. Similar commissions have arrived from Russia and Belgium, while some representatives of Great Britain, France and Italy remain in this country in the interest of their respective re-spective nations. It seems probable that Washington is destined to become the hub around which the war preparations prepara-tions are to revolve in the future. The United States," like Great Britain, having been caught unprepared for such a mighty struggle, is experiencing all sorts of difficulties in getting ready. An efficient army cannot be raised over night and cantonments for troops do not spring iuto being by a wave of the hand or the signing of contracts for a specified number of buildings. Merchant vessels do cot grow in the j wa s and slide down into the water of ! their own accord, and it takes time to j manufacture guns and ctothing for hun-i hun-i dreds of thousands of soldiers. There-! There-! fore it is absolutely certain that all t our war preparations will be subject i to delay, and that there will be much worry and vexation of spirit before we are able to put vast numbers of men fully armed and equipped into the field. : Id the meantime the allies will be- come impatient for the arrival of the j Americans on the firing line, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that there will be much wrangling and criticism over each step taken here at home. But the representatives of the foreign nations na-tions which have been passing through the fiery furnace for the last two or three years know what toll of human i lives is taken when untrained or half-! half-! trained afmies are put into the field j against the German war machine. So Cnr-v art1 p'iinc; f -. r i their best C"-'icavri!- to obtain -ii; ;d;es of r. inds in thi.s ciui.r.rv whi'f v a i t i for our in,n to take over a lai e t'.on o ; i; e ncn line of bat "c .1 ;: - t now it i far easier to f ' ; r n i - if n: i n l r : o u s. fc,0') -tn:'! and o'rKT s'i; plies t'-an it i- to send men over the O'-'au, and th wants of the allie- are receiving prompt attention. Of i-uurse we r-ball not be a bie to e r hem ail 1 1'ey a-k, but so far, thev have all been generously j treat-'! and are no doubt -atisfied. Poor littfe Rumania is in bad shape, j hni'i been crn.-hed in aliot order after entering the war. Her wheat fi.dds and her oil wells are in possession posses-sion uf Jiit Teutons, and Hi mi sands of ber people have been driven from their homes. Many of her soldiers have been killed or captured, and her army is not capable of doing effective work without with-out tiie aid vf the Russians. But Rumania, Ru-mania, as a whole, is better off than Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro, and with help from this country may yet be able to render substantial aid in crushing crush-ing tho Prussian military system that has caused nearly the whole world to arm, and has been the cause of so much sorrow and suffering. |