ROUMANIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 42, 19 June 1915, Page 4

ROUMANIA.

In the most recent issue of the “Fortnightly” there' appears a timely article on “The Attitude of Roumania,’’ by Professor N. Jorga, of Bucharest. From it we gather that there is a “Roumania irredenta” as well as an “.Italia irredenta,” and from the population point of view Roumania’s disability under Austria’s handling of her people is greater than the disability of Italy. Professor Jorga says of the Roumanians in Transylvania (now a

part of Hungary) that “some four million human beings are looked upon as

a people of the lowest status, their nation a mere ethnological feature of the military state of the Magyars, their individual members as worthless creatures usely only to appease the savagery of a brutal police.” The professor remarks: “if we are to believe those who neither understand her situation nor recognise her diJienlties. Roumania waits too long. Well, let it he known that if she waits it is not from hesitation as to her duty, but simply in order that she may discharge it more completely.” Tins but bears out the now generally expressed idea that Roumania has no real alternative but to follow Italy’s good example.