Evening star., 1915-01-11
ROUMANIA SOON READY
WITH ARMY OF 100000
Earlier Participation Prevented by
Lack Of Arms and Other Mill.
tary Supplies.
BATTLES ALMOST AT HALT
Few Engagements Of Major Impor-
tance in Either the Western or
Eastern Arena Of
Conflict.

LONDON, January II, I:e7
p.m.-There are increasing indi-
cations of the early participation
of Roumania in the war, thus
bringing into play another party
to the combination against the
Teutonic powers contemplated by
Great Britain. France and Rus
sia.
Difficulties confronted the allies
in the earlier stages of the war
in furnishing munitions, equip
ment and other necessities of war
beyond those required for their
own immediate needs.
These difficulties now have been
surmounted, and the obstacle
which hitherto has blocked full
Rounanian mobilization has been
removed with the arrival in that
country of the requisite supplies
for the equipment and provision
ing of the 6oo,ooo men which she
is able to put into the field. Ar
rangements have been completed
also for the financing OF these
operations.
Allied Commanders Wait.
The lack of stirring battles at the
present stage is attributed by British
commentators largely to the--lctermf-
nation Of the allied commanders to con-
tent themselves with holding their
present positions until the projected
ring of armies is considered sufficiently
strong to strike blow which they
hope will prove decisive.
The British idea that operations up
to the present are only preparatory to
big events fits in with a bit of gossip
now heard here. 1t is to the effect that
Lord Kitchener, when asked concern
ing the probable duration Of the war.
said: II don't know when 1t will end,
but do know when it will begin, and
that is in the month of May"
Real Crisis Next Summer.
The opinion is expressed in some
quarters. however. that the inaueura-
tion OF more general movements will
be on an earlier date than is generally
expected. although persons in close
touch with the army believe that the
real crisis will not be reached until
summer.
Russia is still sending enormous
masses of men to within easy reach of
various points on her long fighting
line. The levies of 1914. amounting to
100000 men. are just leaving the
training camps, which will be occupied
Immediately by the 1915 levies. now
called out.
Germany's Forces Mobile.
Germany's newest levy, tust an.
nounced, amounts to 100000 men of
the age of nineteen. and her masses Of
reserves already under arms enabled
her to rush heavy reinforcements
wherever required without drawing
troops already engaged at the front
in either the eastern or the western
fighting zones.
This was shown a few days ago in
Alsace, when the Germans assembled
a force sufficient to recapture Burn
haupt, from which point the French
were threatening Muelhausen.
For the moment the center of inter-
est in the western field is Perthes. on
account of the railroads in that region.
which are of equally great importance
to both the Germans and the French.
Should either side gain possession of
Inv he nf
lines OF communication would be cut
and it would be necessary to evacuate
trenches for a considerable distance.
The Germans realized that danger.
,,,,en the French captured Perthes, and
wrought I'D large forces in an attempt
to regain the lost terrain.
Fighting in Poland Lags.
The fighting in Poland recently has
heen purely of a local character. The
are said to be contemplating
an attack at a new point. Apparently
+he Russians are content for the pres
ont to maintain their straight line
or,h and south without attempting to
push westward.
Farther south, simultaneously with,
the Russian progress in Bukowina, an
.dvance of Cracow once more appears
to be imminent
Doubt Is expressed In some quarters
whether the Germans. who are re-
ported to have gone south. supposedly
to assist Austria in the campaign
q against Servia, are actually destined
for that service. 1t is suggested that
their objective Is Hungary, which Is
as much upset by the Rus
sian advance against Transylvania and
The activities of Roumania-
Roumania Near Action.
PARIS, January 11.-G. I. Diamandy.
deputy in the Roumania parliament and