New Britain herald., 1919-04-05
HCSSaraIeia.
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(NeW York Timcs.)
 Whl'e Hungarians. UlrainianS, EoI- i Sh"Niki arc attacking Rumania. and 1 lhc Rulgarians threatcninc to attack | It, two alleged delegates. one "l i whom bears tho interesting name ol i Schmldt arc in Paris. pretending o 1 nave "dircct mandate" from 'h''
 hcSSarao1an people" to protest aSal"'' the Rumanian occupation, to play on the thlnnlnS string of "selt -oeCe' ..' 1.,'
 nation,' to ask for pchisc1to. 1hc l delegates say the Bcssara hlanS are Russians, and will never accept <u- 1 manian ru!c." Two very ingenious gentlemen. What arc the facts Tn the case" From the fourteenth century | to the nineteenth, Fessttrahla pclohecu ] to the Ruma nian princlpal11lCS. be- l fore the fourteenth century the house 1 of the BcSSa rabS ruled on both SldCS l of tho Danube to the sea. At the pe- l ginning of the ninct ecnth century l Ecssa ra bia, the district of some seVcn- teen thousand square miles along the Blcll sea, tho Dnicstcr and the Pruth was still Moldaviana In 1872 Russia which had been beating the Turks. 1 decided to make all MoldaNia hers | Napoleon, then getting ready his fatal 1 Russian expedition, stirred up the 1 Turks to oppose peace on the ltuSslah 1 terms. Through the trcachcrN Of a. i Turkish official, the Russians found 1 out Napoleon's game. They made 1 peace at once, snappinG up BesSarabla as their spells.
 There began the separation of the 1 Rumanians of Bessarabia from those 1 of ModaVia and Wallachia. In 1856, after the Crimcan war, certain dis tricts in the south of Bcssarahia were ,ri,-o 11.a1 tn ia 1 Turl1o- Russian war the Rumanians fought on the Russian side. saved the l Russians from defeat at PlcVna. l AndrassN and Bismarck were deter 1 mined that Russia and Rumania should not be friends. Therefore, at the Berlin congress, they had Bess- arabia given to Russia. The scum of | many nationalities, divers ScctS of those queer religious cranks that pull lulatc in Russia, various political nOmads, went into BcsSara bia. The | Russian beaureaucraCN and the. Rus sian church did their best to Russian ize the Rumanians, the "M oldaNians
 as they term themselves. These ef- forts were mostly fruitless Most of the Rumanians continued faithful tc their language and their nationality
 A few of the nobles were won over
 One of them was the great land
 holding family of KrupeEFk. One o1 the "delegates'' at Paris is said to De
 "a large Bessarabia land holder
 named "Kronpensky." Possibly it is
 d misprint for "krupenski.'
 With the highly imaginative sta
 tistics manufactured and presented
 by these two delegates showing
 that 53 per cent of the population is
 non Rumanian and opposed to annex
 Cnr-n1
 ly to deal. Tn 1912 Bessarabia con
 tained about 351. 900 Rumanians and
 3O,OOO persons of other nationality
 In 1862, according to official re
 port by a member of the Russian
 general staff, three-fourths of the
 population was Rumanian. In 1896
 and 1900 Russian official reports
 showed pra acticaly the same figures
 The ethnosraphical map of the
 French historian, MT. Rambaud
 makes the Rumanians clear major
 ity of the population. According tt
 MT. "kronpensky" and MT. Schmidt , l if the Modavian clement" which
 they graciously reckon at A per cent. , had the privilege of self determina i tion it would vote overwhelming
 in favor of Russian sovereignty
 What is ''RusSian sovereignty r The tender sway of 5olshevism? The
 Russian revolutionists let Bessarabie l have the right of self fdetcrmina,tion 1 The Bessara bans elected nationa
 assembly, By a vote of S6 to the
 national assembly voted for union, o1
 rather reunion, with Rumania. Tha
 appears to be q sufficient act of self
 determination. Of course, when Ger 5 many, forcing d cruel peace upon Ru - mania gave her Bessara bia. truly Ru ) manian however received or withheld { 1 Germany hoped to make trouble fo1 2 Rumania in the end The delegates from Bessarabia a Paris seem to bc Q playing the German -BolsheVist game s Wheat and Cotton.
 l Charlotte ObserVer)
 Y Governor Allen, of Kansas, seems Q to take a selfish view of the situati or