sentences:  Billinton left for Romania on 18 March, travelling via Sweden and Russia.Arriving in Iaşi (then the temporary capital of Romania) he found that over 60% of the locomotives of the Căile Ferate Române were out of commission or under repair, and Billinton travelled around Romania reorganising.The military situation in Romania rapidly deteriorated through 1917 as the Russian armies in the country began to collapse.