The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-18
Court Influences at Bucharest No
Longer Dominate Rou-
manian Government.
ny la MARQUIsE DE FONTEyoy.

BY LA hARQUISE DE FONTENOY,
|OURT influences ut bucharest have
ceased to dominate tho foreign
policy of Roumania, which until
the other day was so pronouncedly
Austrophile as to convince everybody
that King Charles was an ally of En-
peror Francis Joseph. and an addition
al member of the so-callcd triple al
lance. Popular sentiment voiced by
the national Legislature and by the
Cabinet has secured the mastery, and
has forced Its views upon the King and
his court. They are views which are
distinctly hostile to Austria, and as
this radical change OF the foreign policy
OF Roumania cannot fail to have a very
important effect upon tho future course
of events In the southeast of Europe.
IT Is well to take note thereof
To begin with. the Rounanian gov
eminent has taken no account whatso-
ever of the protests of Emperor Francis
Joseph against the humiliating terms
imposed upon King Ferdinand by tho
treaty of Bucharest. The Intervention
OF the Emperor In behalf OF Ferdinand
has been tho subject OF much official
and popular resentment In Bucharest
and has served rs a pretcxt for tho
Pronunciation Of the oppression ana al
legged persecution to which the 100000
or 100000 Roumanians In the Hun
garian province of Pennsylvania arc
subjected by the Emperors Magyar
government.
To show Its Indifference to the feel
ings OF the dual empire, tho Roumanian
government has just added to its army
three regiments of infantry recruited
from Roumanians in Transylvania-
that is to say. of subjects OF Emperor
Francis Joseph who have been " eaned
from their allegiance to him.
That Emperor William should have
given announcement to Roumania in
h..t. fr,-
have expressed his enthusiastic APP
prevail Of the treaty of Bucharest, has
created n most unplea.ant impression
at Vienna, where the relations with
Berlin are just now less friendly than
at any time since the formation OF tho
triple alliance.
Sir Walter Strickland OF Boynton
Hall. In Yorkshire. who has been miss
ing so strangely ever since the LIST of
December last, and for whom world
wide search was instituted without
avail, by his family lawyers and by
his half-brothers. Frederick and Henry,
suddenly turned up last week in Geneva,
Switzerland, as mysterously as he dis
appeared. It remains to be seen wheth-
er he will furnish any explanation of
his disappearance. IL is unlikely, for
no Is extremely reticent. 1t is quite
possible that he has been in jaii all
and scholar, he is something OF an
anarchist, and has spent the last thirty
years wandering all over the world,
botanizing, translating Horace and
Moliere. writing violent pamphlets and
verses against tho established order of
things in his native land and in tho
countries that he visited. and getting
into all sorts of trouble with various
civilized governments.
Sir Walter is an extraordinary char
acter. brilliant man-in many senses
of the word gypsy-and suggested to
Maurice Hewlett the principal figure,
"Senhouse," In his latest novel. Sir
Walters father the late Sir Charles
Strickland, figures in Tom Browns
School Days" as Martin the heros
principal chum.
Sir Walter is very rich, and owns
extensive estates in Yorkshire and in
Westmorland, his principal country
seat. Boynton Hall. having been in the
possession OF his family ever since his
ancestor, William Strickland. accom-
panied Sebastian Cabot on his voyage
of discovery to the New World. An
other ancestor, Sir Thomas Strickland,
bore tho banner OF st. George at tho
battle of Agincourt. and a Walter
Strickland enjoyed the favor OF Oliver
Cromwell. who called him to "the other