Roumania Well Prepared.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 13, 1912:
Can Put Over 250,000 Men in the Field Within Seven Days
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Wednesday, Nov. 13.— Dr. E. J. Dillon, the well-known St. Petersburg correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, has visited Bucharest for the purpose of ascertaining the truth about Roumania's part in the corning transformation of southeastern Europe. He says:
    "There is hardly any substance behind the sinister shadows thrown by recent journalistic reports about Roumania's designs. She is not mobilizing or preparing to mobilize. If, however, events should compel King Charles's advisers to issue a mobilization order, Europe may then take for granted that war is indeed imminent.
    "It is true that the Cabinet, or, rather, the War Department, is utilizing to the fullest extent the general apprehensions in order to purchase for the army everything necessary or desirable, on which, in humdrum times, the nation's representatives might hesitate to expend money. Consequently extensive orders are being placed for uniforms, munitions of war, &c. which suggested to the uninitiated the explanation that Roumania was mobilizing.
    "The army organization is so perfect, the vast human machine so responsive to a touch, that seven days after the order to mobilize is given between 250,000 and 300,000 uniformed, well-equipped soldiers will be ready to take the field."