Photo by Frederick Moore 

 RIVKR BOAT BENEATH THE CI.IFFS OF THE DANUBE 



"The country is far in advance of other Balkan countries. Fast express trains run daily, 

 the length and breadth of the state; ports on the Danube collect and ship the produce of 

 the country to various parts of the world ; a fast Rumanian steamship line carries European 

 mails from Constanza, on the Black Sea, to Constantinople and other eastern centers of 

 commerce" (see text, page 1079). 



looked to the outside world (as a notable 

 London Punch cartoon represented the 

 situation) as though Rumania were act- 

 ing the part of highwayman in attempt- 

 ing to rob Bulgaria, while the latter, em- 

 ploying her forces against Turkey in the 

 south, was defenseless on her northern 

 frontier. 



But the fact cannot be disputed that 

 the claim of Rumania had been known 

 and understood for years. 



HOW RUMANIA GAINED ITS NEW PROVINCE 



At the renewal of hostilities between 

 the Turks and the Allies a member of the 

 Rumanian government, in conversation 

 with a Bulgarian statesman in high au- 

 thority, proposed to join the alliance of 

 the Balkan States and to set the Ru- 

 manian army also in motion against the 



Turks. But the offer came too late. The 

 Bulgarians then knew their strength, both 

 in the field and in European politics, and 

 they had no desire to let the Rumanians 

 cross the frontiers, knowing that too 

 many of their military men would like to 

 remain there. 



The statesmen in authority in Ru- 

 mania, having by that time decided to 

 accept any adjustment of territory that 

 could be obtained peacefully, agreed to 

 accept the offices of Russia as interme- 

 diary. The Bulgarians likewise agreed, 

 and there the matter stood until Bulgaria 

 fell out with her former allies — Servia 

 and Greece. Rumania thereupon joined 

 the latter, and by a brief war, which cost 

 her but little in blood or money, obtained 

 the fertile province of SiHstria. 



Now, why has there been no friendship 



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