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Show RUMANIA ALERT. It' Un Hiiniaiiians have invaded" Bos-suahia Bos-suahia ami ocviijiicd several towns they arc anion j-r their own people, fart of ' Rumania Irrclenta, ' ' if it may he so ealled, ssaiabia was oiu-e prom isi-d lo Kumauia by Russia as a reward re-ward for bringing victory to Russian a nun ovor the Turks, but the peace settlement left Rumania out ia the eold. I Tt would he poetic justice if Rumania, Ruma-nia, as a result of civil war in Russia and the Tetrayal of all the Muscovite 1 peoples by the Bolslieviki, were to ob tain Bessarahia. Their action shows a vior and . i'ihtiiiK spirit which haa been sadly absent among their Slavic allies in the last six months. They .seem to be less intimidated by the ' ' mailed fist and the shining sword ' ' of the kaiser than might be expected in the circumstances. Certainly they would be justified in making peace on almost any favorable terms with the Teutons, but, instead, they appear willing will-ing to fijjit. "What the military situation may be in Rumania is not clear to the world in general. The Rumanians were betrayed be-trayed bv both Russia and Germany and ammunition shipped through Russia Rus-sia for the Rumanian army was. stopped somewhere in Bessarabia until Germany and Austria-Hungary had worked their will with the ill-supplied armies of King Ferdinand. Last summer, however, when General Korniloff began his brilliant bril-liant offensive the impounded guns and shells were sent into Rumania and presumably pre-sumably the king's armies are fairly well supplied. Whether the supply is sufficient for a sustained defense may well bo doubted. And if Russia does not stand back of Rumania there is no source from which the supply can be replenished. If Rumania could make an arrangement arrange-ment with the Ukrainians by which Rumania Ru-mania should have "Bessarabia and an alliance could be perfected all of southern south-ern and central Russia acting in conjunction con-junction with Rumania, could fortify a line several hundred miles long. Controlling Con-trolling the Siberian railroad and its southern connections, General Kale-dines, Kale-dines, who is allied with the Ukrainians, Ukrai-nians, could keep a path open for supplies sup-plies fro.n the United States, by way of Siberia. In that case, even though the Bolslieviki made peace, the Teutons would be able to hold only some of the northwestern governments of Russia, nnd would be compelled to maintain a big army against the Rumanians, the Ukrainians and the Cossacks. |