Secrets of the Balkans . < o o< Q o WQ<2 o s. oPQ o Q p o 2 Ph AT JASSY 143 If this American army of 200,000 men could haveoperated, Ukrainia might have been saved from Bolshe-vism, and the Bolshevik government itself might havebeen overthrown. 10 CHAPTER XVI RUSSIAN REVOLUTION DISRUPTS PLANS AND DEPRIVESROUMANIA OF ASSISTANCE WHEN I came to Jassy, I learned that the Slavswho had been interned and released in Bucharest,had been interned again by mistake in Moldavia. I atonce secured their release, but that was not the end ofit, as they were all destitute. Work was obtained foras many


Secrets of the Balkans . < o o< Q o WQ<2 o s. oPQ o Q p o 2 Ph AT JASSY 143 If this American army of 200,000 men could haveoperated, Ukrainia might have been saved from Bolshe-vism, and the Bolshevik government itself might havebeen overthrown. 10 CHAPTER XVI RUSSIAN REVOLUTION DISRUPTS PLANS AND DEPRIVESROUMANIA OF ASSISTANCE WHEN I came to Jassy, I learned that the Slavswho had been interned and released in Bucharest,had been interned again by mistake in Moldavia. I atonce secured their release, but that was not the end ofit, as they were all destitute. Work was obtained foras many as possible, and some were sent to their homes,but the remainder I had to support until they couldtake care of themselves, and that was a long time forsome of them. When the Roumanians were obliged toretreat to Moldavia in December, 1916, an appeal wassent to Russia for sufficient troops to save Russians came in great numbers, but they werenot given so hearty a welcome by the Roumanians thereas they should have received. In 1917 there we


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