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Photo by K. M. Newman 

 THE RUSSIAN CHURCH IN BUCHAREST 



"Nearly five and a half million of the King's subjects belong to the Orthodox Greek 

 Church. This is such a preponderating majority that religious questions do not arise to com- 

 plicate the political situation beyond the ever-present position of the Jew in the economic 

 life" (see text, page 384). 



of the river, and the removal of obstruc- 

 tions. 



ROUMANIAN RAILWAYS 



The railway system has developed 

 somewhat slowly, clue, perhaps, to an un- 

 willingness to displace the efficient team- 

 freighting from which so many peasants 

 derived a livelihood. Still, there are now 



within the State 2,333 m ^ s of railroad, 

 of which the government owns 2,100 

 miles, the remainder being operated as a 

 part of the State system. In normal 

 times there are excellent through express 

 trains from Ostend, via Bucharest, to 

 Constanta, where quite palatial steamers 

 can be taken for Constantinople. 



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