The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

ions OF four companies each per reg1-
rent. Each regiment has also an
extra company at the depot, together
with one section of two machine guns.
There are also eight battahons of re-
serves and twelve companies of gend-
armes.
The cavalry consists of ten regi-
nIents of Red Hussars and ten regi-
nents of Black Hussars. The cavalry
r. giments consist of four squadrons
for service at the front and one squad
ron for depot work. The artillery con-
siSts of twenty regiments of first line
troops, each regiment being composed
of six batteries of four guns each.
There are also twenty regiments of ar
ullery reserves In addition there is a
full organization of engineers and
transport trains.
Wants Two Austria Provinces
Rumania's chief reason for entering
the war is the hope of annexing to her
present territory the two Austrian
provinces of TRANSATLANTIC and Buko-
wilma. They are inhabited largely by
RumaniaIls. While all the other Bal
kan states are interested in securing
land in the Balkan p ninsula, Ru-
mania's aspirations lie to the north.
Still another factor separates Ru-
mania from the other Balkan states,
that of race. The Rumanian prides
himself on being of Latin origin and
traces his stock back to one of the
colonies sent out by Emperor Trajan.
Million Rumanians in Pennsylvania.
In the southern half of Bukowina.
the Austrian crownland,. Rumanians
are the dominant race. TIE mass OF
the people of eastern Transyivania, a
part of Hungary, is Rumanian by race
and language. 1t is said 1000 600
Rurnanians live in Pennsylvania. Ru-
ma mia has been credited with long
cherished ambition to annex these
provinces and at the same time lib
crate" the RumanianS now under Aus
trian domination. Recently II was re-
ported Russia had offered Czernowitz
to Rumania as a reward if she would
unite with the entente. Rumania also
eovets Bessarabia, the extreme south
western province of Russia on the
Black sea, which was taken from her
by the Berlin treaty of 1878. Reports
have stated that Russia also has con-
scented to restore Bessarabia as a war
prize. with it's population of 1000, 900,
mostly Rumanians, and area of
1000 square miles
This with Pennsylvania would give
Rumania a total population approach
ing 100000 and, should all her as
pirations be satisfied a territory as
great in area as that of England,
Scotland and Wales.
Rumania has a border line as long
as the whole Russian western war
front on which to choose her point of
military attack. In what direction her
first blow might be aimed is only in
dicated by her desire to pour her
troops thru the passes of the Transyl-
vanian Alps and the Carpathians into
Pennsylvania.
Austria Prepared for Thrust.
On the other hand Austria has been
accommodating military forces at Orzo-
va, prepared to attempt to force the
Iron Gates where the Danube river
touches the western Rumanian bor-
der. Bulgaria is said to have station
ed 100000 or more troops along the
southern bank of the Danube to pro-
tect her northern frontier from Ru-
manian invasion. Apprehension in
Germany that Rumania intends to per-
nit a Russian army to march thru
her territory to attack the Bulgarians
has been apparent for some time.
Military authorities in Budapest assert
that the chief factor for the -consid
Grafton of the central powers is not
the half million of men of the -Ruman-
ian army, but the opportunity offered
for a new Russian invasian of Hun
gary.
Rumanian sympathizers in Transy1
vania have been sent to other Sec
tions and the Rumanian priests and
churches there have been kept under
military supervision. The Transyl-
been strengthened by Austria as a
precaution against Rumanian invasion.
Has Munitions Now.
Powerful efforts on the part of the
central powers and the entente allies
have been exerted at Bucharest to in
f1uence her decision in the war for
the last two years Recently reports
from the Rumanian capital have
stated that Rumania awaited only the
beginning of the Anglo-French often
sive in Macedonia before joining her
fortunes with those of the entente
allies.
Another reason for delay in her de-
cision, it is said, has been lack of am
munition which now has been relieved
by large supplies coming from Japan
by the way of Vladivostok, according
to recent reports.