The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . maniacast in her lot with the Entente. With an army of 600,000, Roumania en-tered the war with a dash. But hope oflier being of material aid to the Allies wasIn-ief. The Roumanian army at once in-vaded Transylvania, though most militarycritics hold that the first lilow should havebeen directed against Bulgaria. But vonMackensen, obseiving his effective strategjof a counterattack, struck Roumania atDobrudja and cut through them like ascythe through wheat. This caused thewithdrawal of Roumaniaii troops fromTransy
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . maniacast in her lot with the Entente. With an army of 600,000, Roumania en-tered the war with a dash. But hope oflier being of material aid to the Allies wasIn-ief. The Roumanian army at once in-vaded Transylvania, though most militarycritics hold that the first lilow should havebeen directed against Bulgaria. But vonMackensen, obseiving his effective strategjof a counterattack, struck Roumania atDobrudja and cut through them like ascythe through wheat. This caused thewithdrawal of Roumaniaii troops fromTransylvania. As soon as they had weak-ened themselves there, von Falkenheyn fellupon tliem and administered a disastrousdefeat. The armies of von Mackensen andvon Falkenheyn converged, then, uponBucharest and the capital fell. The gov-ernment had fled to Jassy. For a time theentire fighting forces of Roumania werethreatened with annihilation, but pennedin and cut to pieces as they were, the Ger-mans left a small force to guard againsttlie renewal of hostilities and struck The Latest Type of U S. Submarine, the L-1. History of the War CHAPTER ^^11 ITALY UNDECIDED —GERMAN INFLUENCE DELAYS ITALIAN ENTRANCE — ITALY JOINS ALLIES —BIG GAINS MADE — ITALY SUFFERS LOSSES — SOCIALISTIC INFLUENCES AND GERMAN PROPAGANDA UNDERMINEITALIAN MORALE — VAST ITALIAN LOSSES —ALLIES COME TO ITALYSRELIEF—TEUTONIC FORCES CHECKED. Italy, up to the time of her entrance intothe war, was the center of great diplomaticcontests. Rome was tilled with the agentsof the Triple Alliance—really only the DualAlliance without Italy—and the emissariesof the Entente. Count von Buelow, theGerman ex-chancellor himself, was sent toswing the peninsula kingdom over to theside of the Central Powers. But the Ger-mans found Entente propagandists thereand just as active and eager to combat theirinfluence and bring the strength of Italy totheir own cause. Italys interests were complex at theoutbreak
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