March 6—Parliament passes a law empowering Government to proclaim a state of siege until the end of the war, if such a step is thought necessary; military representatives of the Government are seeking to place large orders for arms and ammunition with American firms.
March 12—Prime Minister Jonesco is quoted in a newspaper interview as saying that he is sure the Allies will force the Dardanelles, the result of which will be that Rumania will join the war.
March 15—Rumania's war preparations are causing uneasiness in Austria-Hungary.
March 18—Government seizes a large quantity of shells in transit from Germany for Turkish troops.
RUSSIA.
March 1—Paris Temps says that the Allies have reached an agreement by which Russia will have free passage through the Dardanelles.
March 4—Village women capture and bind a detachment of German soldiers.
March 24—Congress of Representatives of the Nobility, in annual session at Petrograd, passes resolutions stating that "the vital interests of Russia require full possession of Constantinople, and both shores of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles and the adjacent islands."
TURKEY.
March 9—American missionaries, arriving in New York from Jerusalem, say that the fall of the Dardanelles will probably mean a massacre of Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Land.