ABSTRACT
In August Roumania declared war, and very soon proved incapable of holding against the enemy. The Roumanian collapse was due to an almost total lack of military equipment. Most of the factories having been adapted to the manufacture of war material, it was impossible to turn out enough new rolling-stock, and there was no adequate means of repairing locomotives. In 1916 the Government started an investigation of the question of meat supplies throughout the Empire, and the supplies had diminished by 30 per cent, during the war. The food crisis in Petrograd was a rapidly increasing danger, and yet the Government took no steps to cope with it. The idea of rationing food also never occurred to them, and the only article which was finally rationed was sugar, the rationing of which seems to be a universal herald of a coming food shortage.
