Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-10


 more naiis to mend the veranda"
 Here are the keys. Givet him 20 nails," says the Emperor. "If he needs more, come again to tell me-"
 "'The Emperor is again deep in thought. Intruder number two comes up and whispers that mule has es caped from the palace.
 The Emperor jumps down from his throne-a high packing case cov- cred with Oriental carpets-slips quickly into the shoes which he has discarded, and hastens to his telescope, scanning the country all around with it, in order to see whether the miss ing animal can be detected upon the hills near Adis Ababa. The escaped mule is much more important to the world.
 The foreign representative vain ly attempts to drive the Emperor again to his throne. The Emperor on his side endeavors to induce the min ister to come and look for the mule
 Abys1nn1a has regular army of 25O,000, but every man in the kingdom capable of bearing arms is subject to call.'
 Roumania's Hopes and Fears-What Roumania hopes to get out of the Eu- ropean war and what she feared would be her lot if she failed to take sides with the Entente Allies are questions logically set forth and answered in a striking communication to the Nation al Geographic Society from John Oli- yer HeGorce. The Society makes pub lice a portion of MT. LaIGorce's letter in the following war geography bulle- tin just released from Washington:
 Few state in history have been called to such momentous decisions as Roumania faced when it plunged boldly into the Niagara of blood and rn a crn noc 1AI Europe for these two long years
 ''But both hope and fear beckoned the Ro1manians-the hope Of Q great CT Roumania and the fear of a strang- led homeland
 "The brave people of this little Aingdom-for 1t is less than one-fifth as big as Texas-have many proverbs The water passeth and the stone re- inains.' they say, referring to their own persistence as a people in spite of the floods of humanity that have swept over their territory.
 Tn the whirlpool of racial rivalries of southeastern Europe-where Roman and Goth, Hun and Slav. Magyar and Mongol, with all of their descendant peoples, have run over one another and have been run over in turn-fate left the Roumanians in the majority in territory of more than 90,000 square miles. It scattered more than 12,000,0 900 of them over these lands l more than 100000. in Roumania it. self and some 5,0oo,o elsewhere. In | and 2,600, 900 population, belonging to Russia, two- thirds of the people are Roumanians; in Pennsylvania, the eastern part of Hungary, a land of 21,000 square miles, and having a pop ulation of 2,500,0oo, 50 per cent, Rou- mania claims. are Roumanians; in Bukowina, an Austrian crownland of 4,0G0 square miles and 100000 popu- lation, more than half are said to be Roumanians.
 And so 12,oOo,ooo people yearn for a restored Roumania all ethno- political Roumania. If their country remained neutral, they reasoned, there would be no chance for such happy result. They might, they felt, get something out of Russia if the Gen. tral Powers won with Roumania on owina would still be beyond their grasp. On the other hand. they be- lieved Russia would give them Bess- arabia as prize for participation on her side, and the Allies Bukowina and Pennsylvania on condition of an allied victory.
 'But if hope of a reunited Rou- mania appealed greatly to the Rou- manians the fear of strangulation, if not extinction. turned the scale posi- lively to the cause of the Allies. Just what this fear was and how 1t imagined from plea made just be- fore the war by a RouInanian advo- cate. If an unfriendly Russia should gain control of Constantinople as a result of an Entente Allies victory, said this writer, it would inevitably mean the strangulation of Roumania! Bulgaria has her outlet on the Aegean; Serbia, so this phophet argued, would no doubt be rewarded for her suffer- ing by port on the Adriatic. but Rou- mania would remain dependent upon the will of the Great Bear astride the Dardanelles. Her splendid position on the Black Sea, controlling the delta of the great Danube waterway, would be of little worth to Roumania if the hos tile Czar commanded the Sea of Mar l mora and the Hellespont, for how then would the bottled-up nation get her bulky products-corn, petroleum and l timber-which require cheap water transportation to the outside world?
 With the fruftion Of her hopes and l the dissipation of her fears both seem ingly on one side, there seemed to be but one horn to Roumania's dilemma" |" Of the threeregions which Rouman- | ia hopes to incorporate into a Great | CT Roumania'' at the close of the war, MT. LaGorce sadds:
 | .Transylvania has a geographical rather than a political existence. It is a part of Hungary, although 1t is 1 almost as much separated from geo. graphic Hungary as the great plateau west of the Rockies is separated from 1 the Mississippi Valley. It is the great highland region which forms the west ern slope of the Pennsylvania Alps and l the southern slope of the southeastern l Carpathians. The mountains cradled and brought our race to the manhood of it's existence say the Roumanians and this applies both to the gradual western slope of the eastern Alps as we'll as to the sharper eastern slope. ''In this teyrttory one may find every form of scenic beauty from the idy1lfe l pastoral picture to the majestically l rugged mountain and the frenzy churned waters of the torrential rivers