The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
TRAGEDY OF RUMANIA
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

49, SSeAA
try was forced to accept a German
peace because OF the Russian debacle,
Is still an untold tale. When the story
is written 1t will rank along with the
tragedies of Belgium. of Siberia and of
/ Montenegro. as n 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 a veil.
, Every effort has been made by Ger
many n Austria to keep Rumania
from entering into communication with
her former allies. The tragedy that is
still being enacted in the little country
Is hidden in mystery and silence.
BY DR.. B~ennedetto Cirhino. who d.
rected an Italian hospital at Bucharest
from the beginning Of the war to July,
however, the curtain Is drawn aside for
the first time. and there Is revealed the
beginning Of the Rumanian tragedy and
its present status.
Blocked up in Rumania by the Ger
man peace, 1t was only on July J.. last,
that Or, Ginning succeeded In securing
permission to leave. His account of
what took place in the little Balkan
ally during the time when Germany and
Austria were INJECTING their terms of
peace, and since then, Is not only
, graphic but Of the utmost historical in
terest.
DR.. Cimino's story Is as follows:
II arrived at Bucharest October 80,
1916, and left on July /, 1918.
N one can conceive what RImania
Is at the present time. The ignorance
I'm 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 a series of manufactured
news and f~alsehoods that a portion Of
the public invariably believes in the
end.
1.-The royal family is at Jsssy, and
will remain there throughout the en-
tire period OF the Decentralization &C.
cupation, Bucharest being peopled
largely by enemy officers.
After being Obliged to abandon
Pennsylvania, the Rumanian army re-
treated rapidly, n 1t was not long
before the evacuation Of the capital
became a necessity. Enemy airplanes
bombarded Bucharest without ceasing,
destroying many OF the most beautiful
ediflces and killing and wounding hum
dreds Of people.
1.-THE morning OF November 81, the
beautiful Princess Cantacuzene who
directed the hospital Of which l was
the head entered the operating room
and asked whether / wished to leave.
adding that there were still two rains
to leave Bucharest for Moldavia.
Il replied that ] had come to Buch-
Arrest to direct the hospital and that
declined to leave. While this dialog
was going on, the church bells-which
We're later carried away Aby the con-
querers and melted into projectiles-,
RAM out to the resumption of
the bombardment.
Il shall never forget the impressions
Of the hours that followed.
"A few hours before the Germans
entered Bucharest. the city was evacu-
ated by every one who was able to
leave.
The next day the expulsions and
arrests began. The first to be seized
were the government officials, deputies,
ministers. former ministers and in
f%luential persons generally.
THE enemy took possession Of the
city so quickly that few had ever time
TO hide their most precious objects.
More Prussian System"
. Each person was given a caro- of
identity indicating the number Of chill
dren n the number OF relatives oc-
,cupying the. same house.
The order was given that no one
should leave his place of residence after
Z p: m.
DCStiu INloH VI Jig furniture ana
furnishings Of the houses 10 provide
was begun Immediately, as
Well as the theft Of all precious OBJ
Jects. lila OF mattresses and linen,
carrying away OF paintings and statues.
Fortunately the B~ulgarians, whose
fnfamies are even worse. were prevent
ed from entering the city.
"To give final proof OF the barbarity
OF this people that is unworthy the
r1ght TO live In Europe 1t is sufficient
to state that out of SO, 900 Rumsnian
prisoners that were interned I'm Bull
garia. only 10000 ever returned to
Humania alive. the other rs, 900 having
succumbed to privations, fatigues, dis
eases and bad treatment when they
were not murdered in cold blood.
While awaiting other orders patrols
commanded by officers marched through
the streets with fixed bayonets visiting
every mouse one at Il time and carry
ing away everything they considered
unnecessary for the families to have.
. the other hand, Mackensen, com
mandor Of the armies, and in whose
name tllousands OF atrocities have been
committed. but OF which I am certain
he knows nothing. Is very well liked in
spite OF everything. Why this Is SO.
l Will tell you. Tt is a matter of little
consequence and al be told ! in a few
words.
In the Metropolitan church of BIZ
charest there exists the
relic of a saint. One day, while the
church was closed and the guard was
-promenading outside, three Bulgarian
soldiers arrived in an automobile. and
forcing tho door OF the cathedral. car
ricd away the Vcnerated relic.
Upon the return later Of the bishop
the latter at once discovered the crime
t~c!ephcned immediately to -i!I
-.eAolitt ~AluchcnSeTi wi,o al once mott
fed the frontier authorities TO arrest
the Bulgarian soldiers. This sufficed
to attract to Mackensen the sympa-
thies of mary.
But entirely aside from that, Mack
ensen in all circumstances has always
shown himself 4 man worthy of res
poet M consideration.
With the establishment of the. Ger
mar soldiers in Rumania, the German
authorities undertook the organization
Of the press. At first there was only
Q single newspaper allowed to be pub
lished, n that in German, but later
in Rumanian. There was first the Ga
zeta Eucurestilor and later the Luz
nina. These papers had to praise the
invaders and their acts. and TO keep
systematically silent on what waa ak
ing place in France. Albania and Italy.
likewise to play up to the fullest ex-
tent any news unfavorable to the ar
AT the moment OF the Italian dis
acfar IN tho ys0rSn last Year fhasa