Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-12-08

- rest. Roumania lacks repoSe.
The westerner is Immediately
confronted by these two fac
tors directly he emerges from the
home of Magyar or Slav. They also
indicate, although not adequately ex-
planning, the character Of the Rou-
manian people, says a correspondent
of tie Philadelphia Ledger, writing
before Roumania entered the war.
Bucharest is a city of spies. There
Is an element in the character of the
Roumanian that admits of his becom-
ing an able exponent of espionage.
The Roumanian trusts nobody, and
consequently is not trusted, but it is
the manner in which he manages to
secure his ends that it is so interest
ing and often wonderful in its daring
and enterprise, two essentials in 'in-
telligence."
HOneycOmbed as Bucharest is with
nationalities, nothing escapes; and the
neutrality of the country has played
an important part in the great war.
On the Calea Victoria representatives
of almost every country in the world
may be found slowly promenading
There one may find the observant but
silent Jap and the dusky negro, the
bronzed German or Austrian officer in
mufti, and the American from the oil
fields, the Magyar of the plain and the
southern Slav, the volatile Frenchman
and the calm Scandinavian, the stolid
Russian and the quantity garbed Turk
all mingling and commingling with the
decorative uniforms of the Roumaniar
army and presenting patchwork Of
character, color and language.
Bucharest slumbers not nor does il
sleep; it is activity incarnate. Early
In the morning, long before the con
tents of the Minerva Universal or th'
Dimineatza have been digested, tn,
principal thoroughfares are beset will
youths shouting the wares of the sen
sational Dreptatea. Something ha
fallen, some catastrophe overtaken tn,
central empires or the entente. TIL,
Dreptatea appears to insure converse
ton during the lunch; it is an aid +
| indigestion. Rest and repose are for
eign to Roumania.
Good Publicity Center.
Having all this in view, it is no
very wonderful that Germany, at tn
outbreak of war, Immediately recos
niZed the value of Bucharest as a pull
| licity center. Publicity, what crime
have been committed in thy name!
| With that clever cunning one nov
associates with Teutonic newspape
industry in the Balkans, Roumania ha
been simply inundated with prompt il
formation concerning the failures {
the triple entente.
Instead of relying upon the effeC
produced by mushroom newspaper
bearing topical names, the German
captured most of the established p;
pers, and with them a public read
and receptive, instantly availabl
The allies have neglected the pre-.
factor in Roumania. Conformity wit
their press enterprise the German
utilized to the full the opportunitit
for espionage afforded by the LAT
island amid Slav sea-" The san
group of "agents" who negotiate
the sale or transfer of the newspape
were responsible for the establishmel
IF the Teutonic spy system in Buch
rest.
Situated in Strada Cosma, near Il
end of the Calea Victoria, in clio
proximity to the German legatio
stands an Notwithstanding bull
ing in quiet backwater of city I
spectability. Here the sleuthhounds
intelligence deposit their news, whe
it is submitted to minute examinati,
before being forwarded to Berlin; he
all instructions are given, and skull
ing along by the shade of the hi;
wall may be seen from time to ti1
the disturbing figures of diplomat
life bent upon errands of information
Import.
This much must be said for the as,