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different camps of concentration, most of them lacking sufficient shelter, rava 
ged by diseases brought for the greater part by the Russian armies, the Go 
vernment and the General Staff watched sleeplessy over the reorganization of 
the fighting unities, assisted also by the allied military missions, and more 
especially the French one. 
The difficulties of reforming the army were increased on the one hand, 
by the transports which arrived very slowly by Archangel, and on the other 
hand by the Russian army, in which the dissolving germ of the revolution and 
of disorder had begun to appear. In such a situation the Roumanian troops, 
had no. effective assistance to expect from their Russian ally. 
In the summer of 1917, the Roumanian troops had to confront, on the 
one hand a most powerful offensive prepared by the Central Powers, and on 
the other hand had to struggle against the complete falling off of the Russian 
which rendered the operations of the enemy much easier. 
Neither the propaganda carried on parallel with the German offensive, could 
shake for a moment, the faith of the troops in their strength, nor the be 
lief that their leaders would lead them to victory. In the struggles of Mara^ti 
and of Mar&§e§ti, the Central Powers suffered a final infringement without 
any hope of gaining a succes on the Roumanian front, which remained fixed 
definitively till the end of the war, though the Russians had abandoned the fray 
The allies influenced .by the Russian suggestion, urged us to evacuate 
and to reform our army in Russia (Kerson) but the Roumanians proved to be 
better judges of the reality of the situation, and they maintained the line of Iront 
from Galatz to §arul Dornei, although some of the a lies considered the thing 
almost impossible. 
The Roumanian Government decided to carry on the struggle to the end, 
and gave order for assuring the Treasure of the National Bank as well as all 
the other artistical riches and objects of price which the Banks and Institutions 
had brought to lassy. This provisional assurance had to be finally effectuated 
by sending the Treasure to a safe place in Russia. As, with all the assertions 
of the Russian provisional Government, that by the fall of I zarism the founda 
tion of the State would suffer no change, the Roumanian Government still he 
sitated, the representatives of the allied Powers, assured il that it might carry, 
without fear. The treasure to Russia, as she was still our ally. In this \\a\ 
the treasure and all the riches of Roumanian Art and all moveable stock and 
objects of price were sent to Moskow and the customary protocols were signed 
(An: 15). 
After the struggles at Marasesti the Russian defection having had dange 
rous consequences, the Roumanian Government was obliged to proceed with the 
greatest prudence to disarm and to send towards the frontier appioxi- 
matlvely a million meu which had consumed the last reserves ol food in Rou- 
mania. 
The military operations after the struggles ot Marasesti having ente red 
a period of calm, the Central Powers which had done all that was in their