2 MARCH 1918, Page 1

Meanwhile Rumania, cut off from all help by the treachery

of the Russians, both of the North and of the Ukraine, has been forced to enter into negotiations for peace. Bulgaria is demanding the whole of the Dobrudja, the Central Powers are asking for large economic concessions which will make them Rumania's overlords, and Hungary is said to be pressing for a slice of Rumanian territory. The shibboleth of " No annexations and no indemnities " is only meant to delude the credulous Pacificists in Allied countries. The enemy means to take as much as he can get.