The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-06
VICTORY OF WITS
BY ALLIED DIPLOMATS
RUMANIA'S ENTRY INTO WAR
NEW MENACE FOR AUSTRIA
AND BULGARIA.

The victories of diplomacy rather
than force of arms has featured Eu-,
ropes great war during the week,
and as the result of a series of sem
sational developments the entente al
lies appear to have completely re-
covered from their diplomatic defeat
in the Balkans year ago and turn
ed the tables on the Central powers,
placing Berlin and Vienna at consid-
erble disadvantage. Italy's formal
declaration of war on Germany early
in the week, move long expected.
was followed Immediately by the
even more sensational action of Ru-
mania in declaring war on the Cen
trail powers, thus lining up new
army of 100000 men with the en-
tente allies, and paving the way for
Venizelos and his millions of Greek
followers to overcome King Con-
stantine and his German wife and
get Greece off the shaky fence of
benevolent neutrality"
The Power of Roumania.
Italy's action in declaring war on
Germany was rather expected, but
the action of King Ferdinand, of
Rumania, in jumping off the fence
into the camp of the entente allies
was a surprise. Rumania has had
pro-ally leanings since the outbreak
of the war, but her peculiar geo.
graphical position made neutrality
on her part highly desirable from a
monetary point of view, while her eX-
posed borders rendered her open to
attack from her enemies if she should
make a wrong guess in her choice
of belligerents.
Rumania's entrance into the war
with her army of 100000 trained
men, gives the allies a preponderance
of men in the Balkans, but there is a
question whether or not the entente
group are in position to make use of
these reinforcements as early as they
should to gain full benefit from the
first surprise. Rumania, while it has
the men, has no means of supplying
them with ammunition and supplies,
and this will be an added burden on
Russia, for all supply trains into Ru-
mania will have to pass over the Rus
sian border.
Two Big Campaigns Are Open.
Then, too, Rumania has her eye on
Pennsylvania, the Austrian province
Just over the Rumanian border, and
will wish to confne her military ac-
tivities to clearing this territory of
Austrian troops. Such a campaign,
successfully accomplished, would
open the great Hungarian grain fields
to menace of destruction from the
southeast, and, in addition, might
make the whole Austrian position in
GaIicia untenable by outfianking the
Carpathian mountain positions.
Such move would be highly de-
sirable to the allies, but it is a ques-
ton whether, at the present time,
they would not rather have the Ru-
manian armies launched over the
southern border of the country and
into Bulgaria, while the British
Russian force operating from Salon ,
ii, Greece, move nOrthWard.
BuIgaria's Bad Position.
Such campaign would crush Bull
garia between two great armies, and
if successful would not only put that
nation completely out of the war,
but cut the Austro-German communi- |
cations southwark to Constantinople,
completely isolating Turkey and max
ing the Grand Duke Nicholas con-
quest of Armenia that much easier,
for Turkey depends on Germany for
the greater part of its arms and am
munition.