15 DECEMBER 1917, Page 3

The gallant Rumanian Army, which owed its early defeats to

lack of support from the ex-Tsar's Government, has now been placed in a perilous position by the Russian Anarchist agitation for peace. The Russian commander on the Rumanian front proposed In armistice to the enemy. The Rumanian Army was thus forced to do the same, and suspended hostilities on Thurs- day week. Sir Edward Carson, in addressing the now Anglo. Rumanian Soolety in London the following day, expressed the general feeling of the British public when he said that Great Britain would never desert Rumania,"