Show t V a Robber Ca Castle tle on the Danube Prepared Iy by National O of Society a. a 11 1 u t H I I titmice Ui Hi III IIII Blue T Till which Is not blue but hut either muddy y brown or nr green accord accordIng 1 In Ing to the rainfall in Its valley rl nl n non In n I I resti t since the o agreement nt lit the recent e Nn hll een 1 li la nations c certain economic and ond policies lor l'or many jears ears countries p I border borler ln In Ins the Hie Danube hu ha lia f VI e disagreed on III tariffs rl anti other oilier regulations Ihus thus slitting tattle Irule on of the most na lIa stream In central I ti role Klow In ins from front the hlll hills of nr I 1 a aria to the red sen I the lie Danube has been called the Ihl highway uy av of races se 1 many ra races es o of l both bolh the Ihl Orient rind and Occident Oc have hate nalI navigated the 1111 stream and held parts paris of or It Its 1 ISIK iSOO IN mile Guile cam course rite l' l As one from I he the k sea pa the maritime l Is loft left behind nt of Se crin l' l nt III the Inca 1 of if Its prall ling spro lill delta There h th the Ihl t I Orient hits his s been exchanged for I he the Occident Moslem iii minarets for far donuts domes aid Turkish gales alt lor tor old It I Itoman Ko Ito Koman man bridges There a II narrower narro winds between blur blue em en liftIng lifting lift lift- Ing Ins hills the line gateway allI a to tit tou u ieru Ku Iu rope And there you jou ou may hoard board one of or the hi tug bis river ri steamers that nil Sn summer iii miner Ion lung Ions ascend or descend through half halfa n II dozen countries ril I lying I n between I the he Buck Hlad forest anti and marl sea sla Hardly Hard Hard- ly Iy I Is Severin e n astern tern when the tra hinds finds himself amid n II wild swirl Irl o of waters before II whose ho e terrific force h his I oa boats boat's Ill I'll progress more II and nd more flare the freak feat flat of lIf tl tryIng try try- In Ing to mount a n descending escalator At AI last lat the flue shelter r of or nn an artificially IId nl I calt this Ibis two mule stretch the Iron Iroll nite Cate doubtless the heroes In III their ascent gave cave It some equally forceful name perhaps likening It to 10 the battering club dub of or For hor thousands of or years jears tine the club dub battered or If Ir jou on prefer the gates ate clanged against craft thit i to towed h hy tty battalions of or men At la last t owing to the tie decisions of or the Merlin Congress in ISiS ISS Ih the rapids of nf the lire lower Danube were regulated h by Hungary ary nt lit a n cost of or The Forgotten IS Island Theres Ada Balch 1 remarks n III n u. u I I l or cull It the Island because because be he ra cause liSP the 1111 Berlin BellIn Congress overlooked It Vow ow would you jou catch nn an Uland lid being ng overlooked In the oti act h Why therell there'll I be nn an 11 I park on It Ashore the traveler glimpses n a quaint 1 Island Bland lolon ninny colony of or Mos llo Mos Mos-lems lems who hn lOll long lI nu ngu o built bails Itu their ir little houses a amid III III the acing III I allon of or n dismantle JurI Turkish h fortress It Is n as peaceful a 11 si sight Ihl ht II as asi i that of wild lowers Irs l un inn old oil shell crater On the Danube there tire orl customs i duties nod atul enough local port part re re-iila re lions lIon to make a 11 a n go gin o bald with worry Th The river r Is more like hike I n a political conflict with seven se tickets In the Ihl Held II which Is to say ay It j II s through three R rs one regency two republics and Its length Is 13 pi ea II uJ u j in t too Europe v J H IIII Me tle ii Ola tut te us rid na I portion as Oi shown n on the chart chari totals nearly LCt miles and a gl gI I ice Ill at Its lis nine political 11 sectors o of which three are that Joint Is III shared 1 by pairs of of countries reveal countries reveal that nl nl- most third one of or the Ihl Danube's Danahe's mawe n-iv- n length Is thus ihns shared I by hy states which face tale each Inh other from the rivers river's opposite banks Presently the lire tnt boat enters I a tl sheer sheer- faced acl 1 gorge of ot Iok sky cutting profits profiles that that uncloses the Ihl observer Ir In an on In endless recta ve-sta of or rock cork walled availed waters Through the Kazan Kazal Defile Silent as ns twilight primitive as os when the Danube wrought this passage pas pasS sage to t the Ihl sea spa IU the Kazan l Defile might ml-ht easily have hae seemed to 10 the early a II huron Charon haunted Sl Styx x llIn hl to the 10 underworld Their lards hards called the future Danube the l dw an and In ID dwelt d awesome terms on its shadow shadow orl origin ln en- en thus it placing It its I source UrlO at 01 the Ihl head of ot the Ihl I where rapids Ids t ct still III 8 1 swirl rl 11 over Or Ir li l pg of ot rod rock ilia 1 ly But P the rite Gret Greek Ics newer never in r pt t i tit n t to o in t re rr 1 with It Inn nc V With ith ith I sword ord In one hn alii nn 1 r dt disc e all eales sidles ales In the other hr n I t textiles tiles oller i Pottery ry an ant J arm tau u tu aborigines in exchange for fur ur tics hemp and slaves Sla A sharP l' sharp eyed eyed traveler tra may discover lr what appears to tn be some Mme vandals vandal's outline name scratched in capital capitol Ic letters on 00 I lie iho sheer face cliff of or the defile and ta may limits he hp reach ready to 10 compare com It to Otto Berlin on 00 the Pyramids of ut W Bro n N N. N Y on a n spire of ot Milan cathedral Hut lint with marine glasses he hI will find that tint the scratch- scratch lungs Ins reid read Imp Caesar Tra- Tra lanus lanns lug Aug u Germ Corm Pont font Maximus 1 Trajan or all any other Itoman Homan who could I lead Iced I nn an many army the flat face of I those washed ricer cliffs by means of ot I lien supported beam support m-support ed galleries he tie willII will II agree had hall n a perfect right to cut his name there Tor two tiro da days s 's ant and nights the boot boat churns attend between wl wide e plains and on the third afternoon comes Into sight Ihl of or Perched high over tine the confluence of or the Danube anti and i the Suva S the capital presents a n striking picture Few European Eu- Eu cities dIlls are lire situated on two such waterways II whose navigable na In lengths within la total i O miles Budapest a Stately City Not ot to tt know Is III to in have e mis miss miss-ed one o of the loveliest lo of or European Euro Kuro- t cities itts It has huts It Its own distinctive 1 stateliness that reflects the cultural flowering nO of or a race whose kingdom has Inns been enthroned 1 on the Danube for or n thousand years As certain American metropolitan quarters such II as Little Italy or Little Germany reflect their mother countries In miniature so Budapest's topography lh reflects onn on onn n o snail small scale the Ihl lineaments of or what as ns n a rIll result 11 It of the war tear Is literally Little Hungary Ancient Hilda Ruda on 11 lu Ih R u L. L R 11 on ro rocky crests that represent the foot foot- lulls hills of or Hungary's mry's ar s mountains while on the other bank modern Pest stretches away In els Ie that prelude Hungary's pin Ilia plains IllS mis After leaving Budapest the I boat oat heads heathy for or that fringed cliff section of or the Danube where It makes the h b bU turn lurn westward west Ahead rise the Little forming the background of nf n a hus busy port septic scene of quays cranes canal boats clustered In slips sups Iress Press Press- bur bun iho Ihl German Lerman guidebook calls It It commands a splendid panorama of tine tho Danube's two arms encircling the line Great which local pride proclaims the Ihl Interior Island In III Europe I To Vienna and Beyond Brall Bratislava ll la the river ricer skirts n hillside picture of or town walls curious gates gales crumbling towers It Is h one o of half haIr n a dozen Danube towns I 11 mentioned In II 0 In III the Ihl ns liS I bring lI associated with the downstream j Journey of Burgundy's doomed knights I the Danube's I banks lower lover Into the Ihl wide plain where lies lips Vienna Owing to postwar exi Vienna lenna has achieved for Its Us I working classes I lS l'S n a hou housing ln scheme which planned to 10 embrace tam fam II iles 18 Is futuristic only because of or Its novelty A visit to toone one Viennese palace of ot many the man Ihl the of ot Versailles Versailles- like aspect reveals aspect reveals the luxury of or the Hapsburg hurl r regime and Its postwar sic Ie transit under Au trina Au s 's iti tl n I n public for the park where Maria Marla I Theresa once strolled and antl where the Napoleon of or planned campaigns has hus I become a II Sunday pleasance ane of or Vienna's workers Jr Beyond Vienna lenna fine tine old castle rises Into view vII ns as you near the lire Danube's r region 1 1 on of medieval strongholds Steaming post past the Ihl Wa chau chuu Defiles Defile's crag set crag set ruins one re rev fleets upon the formidable amount of or trade that fell to 10 them as liS a n result of or the Ihl Crusades In 1010 some gome 2010 2000 craft packet I with 0 Palestine bound bound troops the flue Danube Three Thrle ensuing I Crusades took the same ame route There sprang up a river t trade consisting of or I II I westbound silks bilks bronzes spices oily oIK I and o of eastbound furs urs arms and sad SlId j I Hery And the Danube nube ensiles castles took look their anti the flotsam i rake off of or I stranded cargos cargoes lIr o not lIot to mention i i piratical seizures and the Ihl I enslaving ln of ot ships' ships crews i mile Castle Ap Fg n till the mo most mOlt dreaded Of robber St strongholds s. s must r him hate bad had n II great turnover r In riparian lr lot u t and P maderis lIIa t And Castle mist le I eclipse M l nil all linen l cal records n nt HI the n. ore all i rn trade when I s at t Id h i ul tn tint uie royal roal prize I 1 II ud r d C I i t nr tit iK- I. 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