BERLIN’S BACK DOOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 75, 31 March 1915, Page 4

BERLIN’S BACK DOOR.

Speaking of the concern in Austria i at the tendencies of the war, as they were developing at the beginning of January a writer in the London Leader says “There is a particular as well as a general reason for this concern. It is no longer in doubt that Rournauia contemplates intervention. This course is dictated by one main motive—the future of Transylvania. That portion of Hungary is overwhelmingly Rumanian in population, and it has long been fermenting with unrest under the repressive rule of the Magyars. To paint Rumania as a chivalrous deliverer is an imaginative flight. A country which has a higher proportion of illiterates than Russia cannot be suspected of any love of democracy. Rut there can be no doubt that the advent of a Rumanian army into Rumanian Hungary will raise the population en masse and it is this shadow in the south that is darkening the sould of the Magyars. They see the dismemberment ol their kingdom approaching. They see themselves being sacrificed to keep Prussian territory free from the invader. Their pride and their interest alike are challenged, and they are not the people to sit idle under any challenge. They are the intellectual masters of the Empire, They hold the old Emperor

iu the hollow of their hands. Let Berlin look to its back door.'’