OCR Text |
Show EIENTElf MRS TELL OFMANIA Latest Addition to Allies Will Hasten the End of the European War. . By Take Jonescu, Leader of the Liberal Party In Rumania. Bucharest (via Paris, Aug. 280 Only a great German victory could have checked Rumanian Intervention. It failed to materialize and we have stepped into the war, first to realize our national aspirations, second, Inspired In-spired by the humanitarian spirit to shorten the war, which will now end six months sooner than was expected a week ago. The most valuable reward of our intervention will be Transylvania, populated by 4,000,000 Rumanians The Bauat of Temesvar, also mainly Rumanian, and Bukowina, too, will be in the balance. Hungary will lose a quarter of her territory and population, popula-tion, including the big towns of Temesvar, Tem-esvar, Kolosvar and Brasso, as well as her richest mining districts. Regarding the future course of the general war. our Intervention rapidly rapid-ly hastens Bulgaria's doom, cuts off Turkey from German help and expe- 4-U foil rf PnnrloTitlnnnlo nrvnn. U1LO lilts 1UU t-TL VJUllOLUUtlliUlllCi UJSVU Ing up a quick route for rushing supplies sup-plies from Russia to Rumania, enabling en-abling them to ship much needed cereals ce-reals to England, France and Italy. By Georges Clemenceau. Paris, Aug. 28. Transylvania is for Rumania what tho Trentlno is for Italy. The value of the Rumanian army beyond doubt causes great disquiet dis-quiet in Vienna and Berlin because the Austrian flank is laid bare to an attack by General Illlscu, the Rumanian Ruma-nian chief of staff. Also we cannot overlook the eventuality of Russia's sending troops across Rumania from Bessarabia to punish the Bulgarians for attacking the Serbs, as the czar swore he would do. By Gustave Herve. Paris, Aug. 28. King Ferdinand's punishment for the treacherous attack at-tack on Serbia a year ago begins today. to-day. All Sofia is trembling with apprehension, ap-prehension, realizing that Rumania has smashed Bulgaria's plans again, as she did in the second Balkan war. I would not be In Bulgaria's shoes for a fortune. (By Senator Stephen PIchon, former Foreign Minister of France.) Paris, Aug. 28. No intervention In this war is more justified on every ground than Rumania's. Neither Germany Ger-many nor Austria could have been expected ex-pected to give up Hungarian territory populated by Rumanians because it constitutes such a valuable part of the dual empire's soil. No one can now doubt that the map of Europe Is about to be completely remodeled. King Ferdinand of Rumania, Ru-mania, although a member of the Hoh-enzollern Hoh-enzollern family and havng submitted to the heaviest pressure from the German and Austrian kaisers, said months ago: "I shall always act In the interest of my country Irrespective of family ties." (By Gabriele Hanotaux.) Paris, Aug. 28. There was no room in the Balkans for a big Bulgaria and a big Rumania, The moment Germany Ger-many took Bulgaria under her wings and promised to mako her a great state, Rumania was forced into the allies' camp. Abstention would mean annihilation. Her intervention assures as-sures her aggrandizement at the expense ex-pense of Bulgaria and Hungary. Germany Ger-many loses her bridge to Asia Minor, which she expected Bulgaria to constitute. con-stitute. Therefore, her near eastern policy has proved her complete failure In the whole war. The new Europe will need a strong country in the Balkans on the other side of Germany. That Is the future reserved for Rumania, which Bismarck Bis-marck once dubbed "the fiddling horseman." Otherwise the Hungarian Hungar-ian troops are fatally caught In the whirl of tho death waltz. (By Senator Charles Humbert.) Paris, Aug.28. Rumania's entry into tho war is another brilliant diplomatic victory for the allies. An army of nearly a million freBh troops, led by some of the most brll-linnt brll-linnt officers of -Europe will co-opera-ate with the allied armies at Salonl-ki, Salonl-ki, cleaning up the southeastern corner cor-ner of Europe and clarifying the near eastern problem. Rumania has chosen tho right mo; ment Her wise diplomacy has enabled en-abled her to keep the central empires on a keen edge of anxiety for more than a year, until her military and economic preparations were complete. |