Evening star., 1927-10-30

! Transylvana that the teaching is
| given Hungarian children in Hun
garian. Courses in universities alone
are given entirely in Rumanian, and
| this is a fair arrangement.
OF all reconstruction activities few
are more important than those CON
cerning transportation Ports, roads,
| railroads and bridges. Here again
! every day marks an Improvement
! The economic development of a coun-
/ try greatly depends on it's means of
/ communication and transportation in
order To facilitate the exchange of its
products
| When the Germans at last left Ru-
mania the country was actually ruined
| financially. BESIDES her bridges, in
| Guiding the long bridge on the Danube
her railroad tracks and stations as we'll
rs material had all been destroyed.
Only 146 locomotives were left when
a thousand We're used before the war
Now the bridges have been rebuilt,
new tracks laid down and there are
over 2.l00 locomotives and so 900 cars
To be sure, there still is a large task
ahead. Almost every route has only n
single track and the traffic is slowed
down. but tho work is carried on under
their able director, Mr.. st. Pretorian.
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4 s for the ports, it was our privi-
lege to make "A detailed visit of
Galatz. on the Danube. and of Con
stantza. on the Black Sea. Both are
up to date in equipment and termina Is.
Everything is ready to take care of a
large amount of freight. There are
grain elevators of the most modern
type. Unfortunately. all this ma.
lNtNS Il
for the present at least. But the day
is not far when. the reconstruction
being achieved, normal trade will be
resumed
The United States will find in Ru-
mania splendid export field and eX-
changes between the two countries
most profitable.
After Il most interesting trip across
the Carpathian Mountains. where
small narrow-sauge lumber train
had been especially fitted and dec
Grated to take us through this un-
travelled part OF the country, we went
to Jassy, kiShinaw, Basarab beSca and
Cetatea A lba Uhe white fortressI We
were then on the banks of the
Dniester. We visited this old fortress.
whose gray, crumblng walls could
tell much about battles of centuries
past, and in front of us. on the other
side of the river, Soviet Russia ap-
peared to us. \ few days before we
had read Of scores of executions
which lengthcn the list Of the many
thousands who have been igno.
mniously murdered by order of the
Sovietic courts.
AS we looked at those banks. on
which we could soc n few houses
scattered. the whole history of boil
shcvism came tn our mind. We
reached a little point. ind there, half
buried in the ground. were machine
guns and light guns in position.
pointed towards the dark waters. Sol
diers, sailors appeared to us. and |
recognized In their eyes the set ex-
pression Tat we saw on our sentries
In our ~UA)Osts under Nerdun,
These I,umanian soldiers are on
field duty. | soon heard of the nu-
merous attempts made by the Red
army, few hundred yards away, to
raid this side Of the river and to
bring their deathly propaganda. 1t
Is war there. not with constant fight
ing and bombardment and poisoned
gas. but with serious dangers, new
ertheless. even though we never. or
hardly ever, hear Of those raids and
Of the men who give their lives for
our sake. while preserving the in
tegrlty of their land
The Rhine River has often been re-
ferred to as the natural dividing line
between two civilizations. and the
Marne IL often mentioned with emo-'
ton as having been the impassahle
barrier when the armies of the
Kaiser threatened Paris. TO my
mind, although the same romance
has not been attached to the Dniester
River. II takes n great significance
To be sure. the Rhine Is the divid-
ing line between two civilizations. but