

i^iioto by i' rederick iVioore 



RUMANIAN VE:Te:RANS 



These are peasant soldiers who took part in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877. wearing the 

 medals won at Plevna, where the Rumanian soldiers under Prince Charles, the present king, 

 greatly assisted the Russian forces and covered themselves with glory by the assault and 

 capture of the Grivitza redoubt. 



understood her temper and attitude and 

 did not invite her. Furthermore, Bul- 

 garia.^ especially, did not want her to 

 participate, for Rumania had no frontier 

 contiguous to Turkey, and if she was 

 to receive territorial compensation for the 



Vlach population over which she had 

 spread her wing it must be at the ex- 

 pense of Bulgaria. 



Rumania's claim on Bulgaria was made 

 as soon as the armistice was signed at 

 Tchatalja, early in December last. It 



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