Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-06
RUMAN|AN PRESS
CLOSELY WATCHED
FOR ARMY NEWS
Peculiar Conditions Give Spe-
ciaI Significance to Anything
Newspapers of Bucharest
May Have to Say,
tA..ocIated rresa corr.sponaencr.l


bucharest, Feb. l9.--NcNNpapcr orr
gans of the various political leaders
nt Bumania are being closely watched
los observers among the helligercnt
nations To- learn which way, If any,
the ltumanian army may eventually
march The press generally here is
fashioned after that Of France. having
"a distinctly personal tone and the Ru-
munans generally wait for their par
tcular leaders opinion before they
decide their own
In the present situation, two strong
independent papers edited by Com
stautnc Mile, have been given much
consideration. 1t even has been felt
by some that the Mile publications
might decide the stand which Ru-
mania win take, Mr. Mile speaks Of
himself as the supporter of the dis
tinetly Rumaniau policy though it
Is sometimes asserted that he has
been decidedly Russophile,
Attitude of Sclf-intcrcst.
"Thc attitude OF Rumanla. so far
as | know, ia one OF self-intercst, a."
said Mr.. Mile to an Associated Press
correspondent. We wish TO accom-
plish what other races have already
bring the various Rumauan ele-
ments under a common government,
and we consider that Incorporating
the Rumaninns in Pennsylvania first
would be a logical act This is not a
question Of delivering those Ru-
mdnlans from oppression became
materially the Bumopians in Hun
gary are better off than the
cnslovcd Russian peasant. and
indeed. may say that from
Pennsylvania has come what little in
tellectual HE has been fostercd In
the lumanian masses. Therefore, to
incorporate the four million Rumau-
ians In Hungary would be beneficial
to tho main aggregate,
we are not greatly interested In
The Rumanians in Bcssarabia. because
already they have been largely Rus
slani2cd The Rumanians IN Serbia
and elsewhere are.too neglible guam
titY TO be considered at present
though, naturally. we would like To
have them form part of the nation we
have made our obiectivc."'
Speaking OF Rumania's relation to
France and Germany, Mr. Mile said
Sentiment in Rumania.
ITO France we are bound by ties Of
racial origin and intellectual life.
Many of MS have been educated there
and feel that We have sort of per-
sonal interest In the fate ~ the re
public. At the same time we have In
the past been friends of Germany, are
thSt even today TO the extent in which
the relations of that country with
Austro-llungary permit this. l may
say that we have no ill-feeling to-
wards Germany at all. Russia we
have sincerely dislkcd during the last
thirty years, or rather since 1878,
when it took considerable territory
from us. In Serbia we are not greatly
Interested and our feeling to-
ward Austro-llungary is the result en-
tirely Of our conviction that the ltu-
manians in Hungary ought 60 form
part Of a Greater Rumanla."
Mr. Mile thought it would he i'm
possible to arrive Ut an understand
ing with Bulgaria, admitting at the
same time that Rumania could not
well afford to engage in military op-
erations against Austro- Hungary and
Germany SO long as the attitude of
Bulgaria was doubtful lie thought,
however that a rapprochement could
be engineered on the basis that Ru-
mania was to return 10 Bulgaria part.
If not all. Of the Dobrodit district re-
Gently annexed.
That Rumania would eventually go
TO war was by no means patent to
Mr.. Mile. THAT viii dependent
upon circumstances, he said. 1T is
true that we have called our troops
to the colors, but that has been done
all over Europe, At present the sit
uati0n Is calm"