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Show RUMANIA. Xews comes from Bucharest to the effect ef-fect that Austrian and Gorman troops have landed on the Rumanian island of Murawai in the Danube river and that they are placing mines in the river while watching the movements of the Rumanian Ru-manian troops. The Rumanians, with a member of the Hohenzollern family for a king, are not likely to change their attitude of neutrality just at this time. Aside from what the war would cost, the Rumanians must be doing a good business' with the. Teutonic countries in the sale of breadstuff and petroleum, the former constituting 75 per cent of the exports of Rumania in ordinary years. There are 490-J flour mills in the country, and those in tho towns and cities are all fitted with modern machin-erv. machin-erv. Consequently Rumania must, bn furnishing a considerable quantity of flour to the Austrian' anil Germans. This is abnuti all the commerce that remains tu Rumania, for Russia does not need her products, and the other avenues of trade havo been cut off by the war. The merchants and mnnu.fac-'turers mnnu.fac-'turers of the United States are losers by this condition of affairs, for wo export ex-port between two and three million dollars dol-lars worth of products to Rumania in normal times, while our imports from that country .are less than ifr,0U,UO0 iu value, being iu the vicinity of $100,000 this year. Last January the Rumauiau government sent H rummission to the United States In purchase arms nnrl nm-munitinn, nm-munitinn, cotton and sanitary supplies, tu the amount of $10,0(10,0110. It is presumed pre-sumed llief.e shipments got through in duo course of time. Tho Rumanians, however, -will not. bo able to make any more such purchases in this country while the war lasts, for no delivery cao he made. Rumania might be more prosperous pros-perous if Europe were at peace. At the same time she is doubtless finding an extra ood market for her 'principal products, ami is not likely to enter the war until the last stages, when some substantial sub-stantial advantages in tho way of territory ter-ritory ran lie obtained at a minimum Of cost and risk, and from the present aspect of affairs she would as soon espouse es-pouse one cause as tho other, so lon as she is on the wiuuing side. |