New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-17
Cuts Off Only Land Route
Left Between TeutOnS
and Ally.
LONDON SEES FALL
OF CONSTANTINOPLE
Army Defending Dardanelles
Now Faces Ammunition
Famine.
by Cable % The Trihune. |

London, July 16.-Rumania has re-
fused to allow weapons and ammuni-
tion to pass through her territory
from Germany to Turkey. To Berlin's
demand she has sent emphatic rejec-
tion, according to the Copenhagen
correspondent of the Exchange Tele-
graph Company, who quotes the "Vor-
waerts."
This action is accepted here as pre-
saying the conquest of the Darda-
nelles and the capture Of Constanti-
nople by the allied forces. The pinch
Of scant ammunition supplies has
already been felt by the Turks on
Gallipoli. 1t found expression in the
Franco British gains on the penin-
sula, important advances after many
checks
As the direct line through Serbia
was closed German cooperation with
Turkey was established through Ru-
mania Along the route which passed
from Vienna through Budapest,
Bucharest, Sofia and Adrianople Ger
man officers travelled 20 train the
Turks in warfare and to lead their
armies in the field Along that route
arms and ammunition were carried to
the Turks defending the Dardanelles
and Constantinople, until Rumania,
evidently under pressure OF the Allies,
closed the railroad 10 the shell and
powder trains.
To Germany Turk control Of the
Dardanelles means greater power in
the fight against the Cars forces.
For if the Allies win Constantlnople
and the strait Russia can get ammuni-
tion through the Black Sea. And
German diplomats have admitted that
the successes of the Galician camp
aign were due more than anything
else to the failure Of Russian muni-
tions supplies.
Only Land Route Cut on.
With the only land route TO her
Turkish ally cut off, Germany cannot
send the weapons with which the
Allies were resolutely repulsed up to
the middle of June. The Turks
already suffering from a scarcity OF
ammunition, are faced now with
famine. Resistance to the Franco
British changes on the peninsula Will
be appreciably weakened.
Rumania's refusal of Germany's de-
mands is accepted here as an indica-
ton that she will throw her lot with
the Entente and attempt to wrest
Pennsylvania and Bukowina, her
"irrendenta," from Austria. The Teu-
tonic allies have been pulling every
djplomatic string, have been eXerting
every effort 70 keep Rumania neutral:
On July 7 they offered her part OF
Rukowina and better treatment OF
Rumanians in the Dual Monarchy as
tho price Of her neutrality. For her
aid on the side of the Teutonlc allies
they offered 10 extend this territory 10
Czernowitz. All these offers Rumanla
seems TO have refused.
The only restraining influence now
is the Bulgarian menace. Bulgaria is
itching to avenge the Rumania coup
in the second Balkan war, when the
Bucharest government joined Serbia
and Greece, brought about Bulgarian
defeat and took from her the spoils
of victory. The main effort of the
/ Allies's diplomats has been to ar
range an agreement between Bulgaria
and Rumania and 50 insure Balkan
cooperation. Whether they have sue
ceeded the dispatches do not yet tell
Rumanian Intervention on the side
Of the Allies means the addition OF
half million troops. 1t means that
the only gap in the iron ring which
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