The sun., 1915-05-30
WHY RUNANIA is ALMOST CERTAIN
TO FOLLOW ITALY INTO THE WAR

health and precipta;ed his death
His nephew anG successor k:rg
Ferdinand. although HohenZollern.
is sar less pro-Gerrlan. and hanks 90
the influence y! his beautiful AMI
clever consor;. an Englisa Princess
born of Muscovite mother = n
cl..ed 70 lean rather toward Great
Britain and Russia. Dut he owns
very large amount OF Inherited prop
crty IN Austria and especially III Ger
many and has been duly notified tina;
i'm the aver: OF his Joining tie Triple
Entente ali hts private fortune III
those two empires VII, be cor'iscated.
This aas naturally been of nature u
cause him TO hesitate.
Then. too It must oe remembered
that from 1873 until 1898 tie relations
OF Ruman.a and Russia were greatly
strained. The RurIlD.ars. WIZ mad
by their timely response 20 the ip-
pea, from the lat. Nicholas N!cholaio-
witch. Gc.e:a!!ssr:no o; the NuscoN!.H
forces &. the Turkish war Of 1871.
saved the Russian army from utter
disaster at Plevna, could not forgive
or forge, that instead Of receiving any
reward for this assistance they had
bo m robbed by Russia. at the subse-
outnt Congress OF Berlin In 1878. Of
/ their Danubian province H Res
sarabia. receiving In sorry exchange
| the swampish and at that time Alb
solutely useless Dobrucha.
! Moreover. Russia had encouraged In
every fashion possible the Pan-Slav
movements; N the Balkans. which
| tended to promote the interests ~
| Servia a; the expense of those L
Rumania In fact. throughout all tho
three decades following The treaty ~
| Berlin Rumanian statesmen became
accustomed 10 regard Russia as 4
| faithless friend and even as foe az /
Austria as the best friead and prn-
clpal support.
In 1905 there came change.
Austria. under the direction of the
Hate Count d'.Aerenthal. inaugurated a
more selfish and aggressive policy IN
Balkan affairs and commenced tn
favor in every way Bulgaria Mt the
expense Of Rumania At the same
time tae Hungarian Government was
led by the progress of ,he ua!versal
suffrage movement To increase H.
Iharshness ard severity in dealing with
the Nationalist element IN Transy!-
!vania. Ir fact the policy of Austria
Hungary under .he late Couai
d'Aererthal, as under his successor
Coun. Berch,old was distinctly in
mcal 20 Rumania. with the result
that the latter was drawn more and
more toward Russia.
Tie growing resentment Of ths
Runianians against Austria Hungary
became an Overwhelming force a
Bucharest and was taken adva nta e,
of by such able leaders as TAX
Jonescu TO strengthen the cause q
Intervention on the side OF the Tripi,
Entente. on the other hand there
were many of the older statesmen
, such as. for instance. eN-Premie
Carp and the present Prime M!n!ste
Botiano. who have found II difficult &
recant their utterances and to go bacl
on their political principles of thir'.
years or more and 10 transfer en-
. tlrely their sympathies from Austri;
to Russia. whom they had so Ion.
, been accustomed TO look upon a.
|, peril to their country. 1t has take'
no little time to convince them of tn
necessity Of Ruma mia Joining in tn
y fray on the side of the Triple Entente
. To Austria and to Germany the par
Y ticipation of Rumania in the fray con
= stitutes formidab.c danger. II
f not alone that she can put into tn
field a highly trained, perfect
r equipped army ~ some 100000 mer
1f ,v,,A =, 4,
; terness AGAINST the Hungarian or
= pressors of their countrymen i
n Pennsylvania. but il is also that sh
= closes in "a great extent. the rim
@ fence of hostile Powers by which tn
: Qua. Empire and Germany are no,
= surrounded
f Rumanin', 800 miles or more &
r western frontier. hitherto open to III
{. two Kaiscrs as that of n neutra
z nation. will become closed, and in thi
g way Austria and Germany will he shu
= OF from all communication with thei
h Turkish ally and with the outer worl
n via Bulgaria and Greece. Indee,
d since all that portion of Swit2erlan
which is not hordered by Germany an
n by Austria is closed by France an
: by Italy It follows that henc,
: forth the two empires will he cut q
y. from all communication with III
II outer world save through Holland an
y the Scandinavian kingdoms.
- Neither will they be any longer alb
y to draw their supplies of foodstuf,
v and petroleum from Ruman!a. whic
= is one of the richest countries
J. Europe in the matter of grain and oi
G Indeed. the adhesion of Rumaria
e the cause of the Allies cannot fail
h prove even still graver blow to T.
Is cause of the two Kaisers than II
l. declaration of war last week by Ital