Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . ily, the Government, the diplomatic corps,and many citizens withdrew to Jassy, near theRussian frontier. Yet the Rumanians did notregard themselves as vanquished. Many otherhard fights took place at Bocov, Buzen, Rim-nik and Fo^sani, and they afterwards withdrewon the line of the Sereth, where the front wasnarrower and their rear covered by the Rus-sian frontier. For more than a year theRumanian Army opposed the German armiesso vigorously that they were not able to ad-vance further. Here on this line of Sereth in the month ofJanuary, 1917, t
Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . ily, the Government, the diplomatic corps,and many citizens withdrew to Jassy, near theRussian frontier. Yet the Rumanians did notregard themselves as vanquished. Many otherhard fights took place at Bocov, Buzen, Rim-nik and Fo^sani, and they afterwards withdrewon the line of the Sereth, where the front wasnarrower and their rear covered by the Rus-sian frontier. For more than a year theRumanian Army opposed the German armiesso vigorously that they were not able to ad-vance further. Here on this line of Sereth in the month ofJanuary, 1917, there at last arrived severalRussian divisions, which completed the defenseof the Rumanian front, and at the end ofMarch, 1917, there also arrived some largeguns, sent by France, which had for a long timebeen lost in Siberia through the connivance of 77 RUMANIAS SACRIFICE the Russian administration. Here in Seretha series of battles took place; the Germanswished to pass at any cost, but their effort tobreak the line was useless, and the sacrifice in. men was enormous on both sides. Althoughthe Rumanian Army was very short of mod-ern materials of war, although she lacked evenfood, nevertheless, the resistance and heroismof this army reached the limits of what man 78 THE STRUGGLE can do. Each regiment wanted to distinguishitself, each soldier and each officer, to surpassin heroism. Even a young girl gave a bril-liant example of courage and bravery. Shedemonstrated that the woman has these quali-ties as highly developed as the best of soldiersand that she is able to face death with the samedisdain as anj other hero. The CommanderTeiusanu, former military attache of the Ru-manian legation at Washington, related thefollowing facts in the Rumanian Review ofChicago, No. 7, February, 1918. In this extraordinary war many acts of braveryhave happened in all the countries involved. InRumania, specially, the bravery of the soldiers andtheir definace of death have astonished the officers oft
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