Arizona republican., 1898-08-18
FOREIGN NOTES
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The king Of Roumania, accompanied by his nephew and heir, Prince Ferdi- nand, has just paid his frequently an- nounced and invariably deferred visit to St. Petersburg. Just twenty-nine years have elapsed since King Charles was last in the Russian capital. At that time he had been but short time on the throne of Roumania, not as king, but merely as hospodar. or vas sal prince, bound by ties Of allegiance to his suzerian, the sultan of Turkey, to whose empire Roumania, as well as |Servia, nominally belonged.
 Charles Of BohenZollerr was a very unimportant parsonage in those days. His acceptance of the Roumanian throne was regarded by the European court as something in the light of an opera comique adventure, which was heightened by the circunlst tance that in order to reach his dominions he was compelled to traverse Austria and Hungary, disguised in the livery of a footman. Today he occupies a very different position, and he has returned to St. Petersburg under very altered circumstances. He is the full f1edged and independent king of rich and powerful country, and the commander of splendidly equipped army of such size and importance that he was able to turn the tide in the favor of Russia at the moment in the war of 1877 when repeated defeats before P1evna were about to compel it to give way to the Turks. The dispatch which the Rus cio 6 -rsn of To fo Grand Duke Nicholas. addressed on that occasion to King Charles, entreat- Ing him to come to his ass,sxnce to save the Russian army from disaser, and describing it's desperate straits, is a matter of history.
 Roumania never received any thanks for these services, but lost one of it's fairest provinces. which it was forced by the treaty of Berlin to cede to Russia, receiving in exchange terri tory which was absolutely va1ueless, consisting Of nothing but sand, swamp, and waste. From that moment-it is just twenty years ago-there has been considerable amount of bad feeling between Rouniania and Russia, which was intensified when in organizing the magnificent defensive works which render Rounania one of the most powerfully fortified kingdoms in Flu rope the guns were all turned, so to speak, in the direction of Russia, as if the latter was the only power which RoumaDia had to fear.
 The Muscovite government respond cd by inaugurating 2. pan-Slavist pro- paganda in Roumania, melting the people on religious grounds to rise against the papist king, and to estab- fish in his stead g sovereign who be- longed to tue same faith as them selves, namely. to the so called ortho- dox church Inasnluch as King Charles obtained conclusive evidence tEat the prime mover in this propa- ganda ard cc-eniracy against his throne was no other than the late RI Eitrcvo, t2e 2uss:tlr minister plenipo- tentiary 70 the court Of Bucharest. and who as graceful post had wormed his way into the confidence Of the queen. he naturally turned mere and more in the direction of the triple alliance to which Roumania may now be said to belong.
 Tie relations between the courts of Bucharest and St. Petersburg have i'm proved since the crown prince of Rou- mania married Princess Marie of Co., burg, who is niece of the late czar.