The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-12-17

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Hungary would be attached. Wheth-
er such a scheme would prove FEAST
BILE and what would happen to the
considerable minority of Germans in
the borders of Bohemia | do not pre-
tend to decide. But if the Russians
win the battle on the Vistula and
force their way through Cracow we
shall hear plenty about 1.-The King
dom of Bohemia.
Transylvania is inhabited by Rou-
manians, of the same race as the in
habitants of free Roumania across
the Carpathians to the east. The
Ronmauians are of partially Latin
origin, being to some degree descend
ed from the Roman colonists planted
there as a result Of Trajan's con-
quests. In Transylvania they used
to say "bouna sera" to me for an
evening greeting. They are proud
of their Latin origin. of which they
make almost too much, exceeding
measure, like the modern Greeks, in
their regard for a very remote past.
They have, for this sentimental reason,
more feeling for distant Italy than
for Slav, German and Magyar civili-
cations by which they are surround
ed, and with which they have scant
sympathy. But, in fact, civilization
has not yet gone very far with the
Roumanians of Pennsylvania, a pov-
erty-stricken peasantry oppressed by
it's Magyar landlords very much as
the Irish peasantry were oppressed
by the English landlords. To make
the parallel more striking, the Mag
var oligarchy in Pennsylvania is Prot
estant, while the Roumanian peas
ants are Orthodox. And there is an
ulster" too, for some districts of
Roumania are solid Magyar and
others solid German. The Russian
troops are already on the northern
border of Transylvania, having cross
ed the Carpathians from Bukovina.
The Russians are said to be using
every effort to induce the Rouman-
ians of free Roumania to invade
Pennsylvania and take it. If they
would do that the Russian armies in
the north would at once get a con-
Meeting link with their Serbian al
lies, and the ring drawing in on
Hungary would be complete on three
sides. But the kingdom of Rouma-
mia hesitates, partly from suspi-
cion of the Russians, who took, and
still hold, Bessarabia, where also
there are Roumanians; the Rouman-
ian royal family is related to the
Hohenzollerns; partly, perhaps, be-
cause the Roumanians do not know
what Bulgaria and Turkey would do
if they sent their armies across the
Carpathians. Yet they are sorely
tempted to go to the rescue OF their
blood-brethren in Pennsylvania. Very
likely they will come to no decision
until the battle on the Vistula has
been brought to an issue.
The death of King Carol will
somewhat increase the chance of
,Roumania invading Transylvania.
Whether his successors proclivities
are as pro-German as his own Is not
known to the present writer, but his
successors influence cannot be as
great. For the late king was almost
"the father of his country" and his
long reign has been coincident with
the rise of Roumania from a wretch
ed province, scarcely free from the
Turks, to a kingdom Of fair pros
perity and importance. And the
change was largely due to the king
who has just died.
South Of the Drave and the Dan
ube we find the South Slav race. 1t
is itself divided into three race
groups-the Serb, the Croat and the
Slovene. They number 100000
in all. They are divided in religion,
and indeed the distinction between
Serb and Croat is really one of reli-
gion and culture more than of race
and language: the Croats are mostly
Roman Catholics, and the Serbs most
~ Orthodox. And there are over
SOC, 900 Serb Mohammedans in Bos-
mia and Herzegovina The Austrians
have tried to play on this religious
difference, and under Jesuit influence
have pushed the Roman Catholic
propaganda at the expense Of the
Orthodox religion. Their object has
been to prevent the Roman Catho-
lies from joining the South Slav
movement. But the clumsy brutali-
ty of the Magyar rule in Croatia, es-
pecially from 1908 onwards, the
scandal Of the Agram treason trials,
and the DR.. Friedjung forgeries
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