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Show RUMANIA STILL READYTO FIGHT Jassv, Rumania, via London. Jan. 5, 4:05 p. m. In response to a unanimous un-animous vote of the chamber of dep uties, the Rumanian government has ordered that a "declaration of defiance" defi-ance" be placarded in every town The declaration which was read in the chamber by Deputy Jorga, is in part as follows "To Indulge at this moment in re-, crimination nnd personalities would be to fail 10 comprehend the great and tragic majesty of the time. This war will cause to arise here, as else-whore, else-whore, a new moral harvest in the soul of everyone who aspires to serve l the interests of the country. We see! close at hand the specter of the invader, in-vader, greedy for the suffering of those whom he hopes to make his vicums. But the rallying of our moral mor-al forces will show the world all the Intelligence, energy and devotion that the nation possesses. "We are no longer party against party or personality against personality person-ality The country absorbs us in its Borrows and hopes. The Rumanian army is not con-1 queied It is unconquerable in that ' which constitutes the sole value of an ! army even in thi6 age of cowardly, sterile technique, namely, in the con-1 sciousness of having generously offered of-fered itself in order to save the coun- I try and to secure the triumph of its j race. Its long resistance does honor to its flag. The spirit of thousands j who have perished has passed, with the heroic power of that supremo moment, to thoso who survived and who carry with them the spirit of their lost comrades. ' The most important and most devoted de-voted part of this army is composed of peasants. Once again, solemnly and by the word of the kinK himself, their economic and political libertj ras promised them a few aays ago. At tbe moment of victory they shall not be rewarded only by flowers while the fruits are reaped brothers. br-others. "Does the enemy seek a reply from us? We give it here. He may have burned our harvests, ruined our resources, re-sources, sent to the grave the flower of our youth; he may have destroyed the treasures of our ancient art; he may have had the glory of loosing Maglar Malic and the ignoble hordes of Turkey as well as the greedy, covetous Bulgars, but to make a theatrical play of our humiliated, spirit that pleasure he shall never have. "We bave driven many enemies from this land and we still are able to conquer The little church in the forest may still be seen where Basil, the wolf, after he was beaten by the Tartars, was sheltered in misfortune until he emerged to purify Moldavia. His faith and hope we have also and we await with absolute confidence the hour when we shall again be come what we have been and even more than that." |