ROUMANIAN TRANSPORT.
JIOTOR CARS COMMON. The Roumanian railways are still very primitive, and the carriages are generally so unclean that the aristocracy hardly ever travel by rail. Since the discovery of petrol the use of motor cars has become very common. Everyone has a ear, the roads are good, and the distances are short. Within the national territory everyone journeys by motor car, and only resorts to the railway if he wishes to cross the frontier. Although in most ways Roumania and its ■jeople are highly civilised, cultured, and even progressive, yet the land has never entirely recovered from the leprosy of the long Turkish domination, The people have the reputation of being somewhat grasping in trade, but are civil, friendly, and easy to get on with. The peasants are rough, sturdy people, who work hard and live simply in their picturesque villages, which arc. rich with flowers. The cottages are painted in bright colors, and food is cheap and plentiful in the country, for the soil is very fertile. Maize and other sorts of grain grow in great fields many square miles in extent, and the fruit of Roumania Is proverbial. Nowhere else in the world are raspberries so plentiful and delicious The main artery of trade is, of course > the Danube, though Constanza, on the Black Sea, is a port of some importance, as well as a fashionable seaside resort. A great fleet of steamers plies up and down the stream, bringing the goods of Central Europe, and carrying in exchange the grain and foodstuffs of the kingdom. Passengers travel by river to a considerable extent, and Roumania guards the passage of the stream with a considerable flotilla of armed ships, which will greatly embarrass the Bulgarians in any attempt they may make at molesting the inhabitants of the' Roumanian Bide. Many Austrian boats use the Danube, but their activity ceased since the Roumanian troops seiiai Orsova and control the gorge of tl v«ft er called the Iron Gates. . ■ ' ' '.A
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1916, Page 3
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332ROUMANIAN TRANSPORT. Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1916, Page 3
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