The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-03
TRAGEDY OF RUMAN|A
is GRAPHICALLY TOLD
Curtain Drawn Aside BY Direc-
tor OF. Italian Hospital Who
Just Came Out of Country. .
BY HENRY WOOD.
United Press Staff Correspondent.


try was forced to accept q German
peace because OF the RUSSIAN debacle,
is still an untold tale. When the story
is written it will rank along with the
tragedies of Belgium, of Siberia and of
Montenegro, as one of the great chap
tiers of the war.
From the moment the central empires
forced upon their dimunitive prey the
terms of a German peace Rumania has
been as though shrouded in veil.
Every effort has been made by Ger
many and Austria to keep Rumania
from entering into communication with
her former allies. Tie tragedy that is
still being enacted in the little country
is hidden in mystery and silence.
By DR.. Bennedetto Cimino, who di-
rected an Italian hospital at Bucharest
from the beginning of the wac to July,
however, the curtain is drawn aside for
the first time, and there is revealed the
its present status.
Blocked up In Rumania by the Ger
man peace it was only on july i, last,
that DR.. Cimino succeeded in securing
permission to leave. His account of
what took place in the little Balkan
ally during the time when Germany and
Austria We're inf1icting their terms of
peace, and since then, is not only
graphic but of the utmost historical In
terest.
LII. 1ll1lltlO SlOTS is as lOlloWS.
II arrived at Bucharest October 30,
1916 and left on July 1. 1918.
mo one can conceive what RImania
is at the present time. The ignorance
in which the Germans keep the native
population of all that is happening in
the rest of the world exceeds the i'm
agination. The defeats. the disasters.
the facts that are contrary to the Ger
man interests and completely unknown
in Rumania while the Germans publish
every day q series of manufactured
news and falsehoods that Il portion of
the public invariably believes in the
end
The royal family is at Jassy, and
will remain there throughout the en-
tire period Of the German Austrian oc
cupation, Bucharest being peopled
largely by enemy officers.
Pennsylvania, the Rumanian army re-
treated rapidly, and it was not long
before the evacuation of the capital
became a necessity Enemy airplanes
bombarded Bucharest without ceasing.
destroying many of the most beautiful
dreds of people.
THE morning of November 81, the
beautiful Princess Cantacuzene who
directed the hospital OF whlcH~1 Vas
the head entered the operating room
and asked whether / wished to leave.
adding that there We're still two. trains
to leave Bucharest for Moldavia.
= Il replied that I had come to Buch-
Arrest to direct the hospital and that /
6declined to leave. While this dialog
was going on, the church bells-which
We're later carried away by the con-
2querers and melted into projectiles-
rang out to announce the resumption Of
the bombardment.
II shall never forget the Impressions
OF the hours that followed
"A few hours before the Germans
entered Bucharest, the city was evacu-
leave
The next day the expulsions and
arrests began. The first to he seized
We're the government officials, deputies,
ministers, former ministers and in
fiuential persons generally.
The enemy took possession OF the
city so quickly that few had even time
TO hide their most precious objects.
More Prussian System"
Each person was given a card of
identity indicating the humber of chill
dren and the number of relatives oc-
cupying the same house
The order wGs given that no one
should leave his place of residence after
p. m. -
Destruction of the furniture and
furnishings of the houses to provide
IlreWood was begun immediately. ms
Well as the theft of all precious oh
1ects. pillage of mattresses and linen.
CARVING away of paintings and statues,
j. fortunately or the Bulgarians. whose
ed from entering the city
10 give final proof Of the barharitv
OF TINS people that is unworthy the
right to live in Europe it is sufficient
Y state that out of $4,000 Rumanian
par,o nn,v mat o Were informed in Bull
Rumanta alive. the other &c, 900 having
sucenmbed to privations, fatigues dis
Eases ana bad treatment when they
's''aeaIsss. NOT murdered in cold blood
anne a1Mba Y other orders patrols
the streets with fixed bayonets visitinr
/ every ever mouse one at time and carry
INF away everything they considered
UNNECESSARY for thesfamilies to have
y. on the other hand. Mackensen, com
!. . .,l 81 TIE armies. and in whose
Z name thousands of atrocities have hean
committed s. but of which am certain
Il ne knows nothing, is very we'll ,ilsel, q,
spltc OF everything Why this IS so
VIII tell you. 1t sisa matter Of little
words. - q isM
.ln the Metropolitan church Of Ri
charest there exists the mira nr,o,,s
8. Isi i OF a saint. One day, while tha
ss s.i. w;sss closed and the guard was
fl1reeF Eulga ria II,
s srs arrived in an AUTOMOBILE. ana
forcing the door Of the cathedral. car.
ricd away the venerated relic. q
i, s,l ION the return later Of the bishop'
t-the after at onee discovered the crir4io
ana ic'epaiannd immediately 10 E,iai,s
alttisi;ti .YiackenssB, VINO at once nof;s.
NED iled the frontier authorities to arrest
the Bulgarian soldiers This suffiee,1
20 attract TO Mackensen the syrnna-
thies of many. 92! =. -
But entirely aside from that. Mack :
ensens IN all circumstances has always
pect and consideration. Is y E
With the esta blishment- of the Ger
man soldiers in RlimaniA. the German
authorities undertook the organizatinn
of the press. At first there was only
single newspaper allowed to be pub.
lished, and that in German. but later
arrangements were made for papers
in Rumanians, There was first the "a :
zeta Bucurestilor and later the LII
nina These papers had to praise tire