Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . <V (U a. IIS RUMANIAS SACRIFICE But if the beginnings of the Rumanian Army weresad, the continuation became more discomforting.^ These observations, made with great com-petency, are unfortunately very just. General Iliesco made the following declara-tion to the Prussian representative in April,1917: Early in the beginning of the great war Rumaniafelt sure that she would have to enter into the war bythe side of the Allies. Already, in the month ofAugust, 1914, we had began to prepare and re-organize our army. It was an arduous task and alo
Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . <V (U a. IIS RUMANIAS SACRIFICE But if the beginnings of the Rumanian Army weresad, the continuation became more discomforting.^ These observations, made with great com-petency, are unfortunately very just. General Iliesco made the following declara-tion to the Prussian representative in April,1917: Early in the beginning of the great war Rumaniafelt sure that she would have to enter into the war bythe side of the Allies. Already, in the month ofAugust, 1914, we had began to prepare and re-organize our army. It was an arduous task and along one. From 180,000 men we had to bring ourarmy to 820,000 men, out of which 560,000 werefighting men. Our list of officers had to be had neither munitions nor machine-guns. Therefore,—^let not this affirmation surprise you,—in July, 1916, taking into consideration the im-mense difficulties of transportation and of communi-cations with our Western allies, Rumania, who, how-ever, had worked without ceasing, was not ready. ^ General Rudeanu, head
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