Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . >^ ^. began to make itseK felt in a most disquietingway. 65 RUMANIAS SACRIFICE On September 1, 1916, Germany declaredwar on Rumania, and at the same time Bul-garia took a hostile attitude. The Rumanian Government, counting uponGeneral Sarrails offensive of Saloniki againstthe Bulgarians, according to the peaceful dec-laration made formally by the Bulgarian prime•minister in regard to Rumania and speciallyupon the assurances from Petrograd that Rus-sia would take, in any case, military measuresto safeguard the frontier at the south ofRu
Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . >^ ^. began to make itseK felt in a most disquietingway. 65 RUMANIAS SACRIFICE On September 1, 1916, Germany declaredwar on Rumania, and at the same time Bul-garia took a hostile attitude. The Rumanian Government, counting uponGeneral Sarrails offensive of Saloniki againstthe Bulgarians, according to the peaceful dec-laration made formally by the Bulgarian prime•minister in regard to Rumania and speciallyupon the assurances from Petrograd that Rus-sia would take, in any case, military measuresto safeguard the frontier at the south ofRumania against all Bulgarian attacks, hadleft in Dobrudja only a few divisions. Thirtyto forty thousand men, mostly of the mihtia, oc-cupied Turtukai, a small fortified city situatednear the Bulgarian frontier, and there werealso two to three divisions on the line of Kus-tendje. An army of one hundred and eightythousand, composed of Germans, Bulgarians,and Turks, provided with heavy cannons andall the modern material of war, was advancingunder the command of
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