The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-08

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State is lucid explanation of one
of the puzzling phases of the great
war problem:
The Row of Blocks
Roumania, the only one of the Bal
kan nations to come unscathed thru
the war with Turkey, whose declara-
ton of war against Bulgaria forced
the latter to give up the spof1s of
ritory, shares with Italy. but more
acutely, the trouble of a popular de-
side for war against Austro-Hungary
In Italy, while the masses of the
people seem eager to throw in their
lot with the allies, the king has the
loyalty of his cabinet; in Roumania,
| King Charles faces a situation where
not only his people, but his ministers,
are unanimous for war. The diff
Guilty has gone to the point where
Victor Jonesco, secretary of the Rou-
manian legation in Paris, and a
nephew of the prime minister of his
country, has publicly denounced the
king as "a traitor to the interests of
his country In this crisis, King
Charles, who is member of the
House of HohenzoIlern, has been
taken conveniently sick, but it APP
pears that he will soon be brought to
the point where he must elect to fight
or abdicate. as a few years ago he
offered to 40, In favor of his nephew
The Importance of this threatened
alliance with Russia is of the grav-
est consequence. 'Roumania has
well equipped and modern army of
100. 200 men. She can easily put
400, 900 in the field They are eff
cient troops, strategically located,
ready to sweep into Hungary at a
moments notice. ALREADY, Rouman-
ia has announced that she would fol-
low the lead of Italy, but if she goes
first to war, Italy, in all probability,
will have to follow her. The war,
looking to the naturalization of four
million Roumanians living in discon-
tent in Austro4Hungary would be in
tensely popular, but it would instant
ly drag in Turkey, Greece and per-
haps the war-spent Bulgaria. So it
is that what someone has described
as row of standing blocks falling
as the first in line is knocked over
seems in fair way to lead to still
further complications. As a reward
, Roumania would take in victory the
Austro-Hungary provinces of Tran
sylvania and Buckowina
} So much for the condition Fol
: the cause we have to look to the folly
2 of little men trying to play a bis
Y mans game. Austrian diplomacy ha
: suffered from the tradition of Meter
mich. What he did with utter lacl
of scruple, but with Satanic wisdom
e the advisers of the aged Francis Jos
t eph have tried to do in ways tina
d have proven a succession of plumbers
Z A few years ago Roumania was in en-
1t arehy. But the great country tina
Le was almost her guardian must need
is see fit needlessly to Cypress the RI
ID mans of its population and to give
IS deaf ear to protests; it must need
he excite and plot a Balkan war design
II ed to pave the war for territori;
is trade with a Turkey expected to /
as victorious; when that failed, it mu
I'd needs scheme that second Balka
war between Bulgaria and her form,
allies, Greece and Servia As a r
it. suit, Roumania stepped in and sc
III tiled the Balkan dispute to her ov
he advantage and shifted the friendsh
o. of years. She was answered with II
All stupid ultimatum to Servia. No
,lf her people fully informed of all tn
81 ha1f-baked diplomacy, she is Gag
es for an alliance with Russia in t
an glittering hope of 'fRoumania for t
,s- Roumanians"