The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1915. ROUMANIA'S POSITION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 14 June 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1915. ROUMANIA'S POSITION.

Th'a case for Roumania in the present crisis was well put recently by a leading Bucharest newspaper which stated that the Hungarians were trying to draw Roumania's sympathies away from the Allies by the old tactics of putting forward the bogey of Russian peril. But, this paper said: "We do not fear such dangers. We know better where our interests he. But the Hungarians also threaten to take revenge by persecuting our Transylvanian brethren who are in their power. We must save these brethren of ours now; we must redeem them now. That is the only answer we can give the Magyars." Other journals emphasise the duty of Roumania of carrying help at once to their kinsfolk, who have long been sacrificed to Magyar and Austrian tyranny, and are now starving throughout the ravaged and ruined countryside, and show how serious the .situation in Transylvania is becoming through Austrian oppression and conscription for the Austrian Army. Not only is the Press of the country urging Roumania to intervene, but politicians of all classes take the stand that war must come and Roumania's place is with the Allies. Ah to popular feeling we have only to remember the reception accorded the veteran French .soldier, General Pan, on his special mission for the Allies to Bucharest, when he was acclaimed as a popular idol, and the subsequent reception of the German von der Coltz, who was hooted in the streets by the .same people, to conclude on that point. If Bulgaria would but be a littlo more openly definite in her leanings to the side of the Allies, Roumania's 150,000 soldiers would at once take the held. That, at any rate, is the opinion of those who are most intimate witli the existing conditions.