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Show 'mm mm ire now m WAR POU MANIA HAS THROWN IN HER LOT WITH ENTENTE ALLIES AND ATTACKS HUNGARY. Action of Roumania Has Been Awaited Await-ed With Symptoms of Concern by Both Sides Since Beginning Begin-ning of Conflict. London. Roumania Iki.s Lhrown in her lot with the ent.-nie allies by le-ciarin le-ciarin war on A us: ria- i ! unKO', almost, si in til: it m on -;Iy denim ny has union need t fiat sue. is at war with Ifoumania. Koumnnia thus ht-conjes the four-teenth four-teenth nation to join in the war. Her Intervention eiiln-r on thj side of (lie finti-nle allies or Ilie oeutral powers has hfcn awaiti-d with symptoms ot concern hy hot h s ince the begin n ing of the great conllici. This is duo no: entirely to lion mania's military pironglli, hut also lo the sl.a'c-gic advantages ad-vantages of her geographical position and the fact that her entry into the truggle opens lo the Kussia,i army a gateway lo attack thi; liulgarians from the north, while the allied army having its base at Saloniki attacks them and their (lerman allks from the south. Nevertheless. Roumanians military Btrength is hy no means inconsiderable. inconsider-able. The coi"iliy has a population of 6,800,000 and her army has been estimated esti-mated at aSO.OOO. : The motive which prompts Koumn- fiia to enter the war is the s,lisfac-lon s,lisfac-lon of her national aspiration.;, described de-scribed by Take Joncscu, the Roumanian Rouma-nian liberal leader, as the "policy of national instinct." Concisely this tneans national expansion. L the Boutbern half of Hukowina, the Austrian Aus-trian crown land, the Roumanians are the dominant race. The mass ,t the people of eastern Transylvania, u part of Hungary, is Roumanian by race and language. It is said 4,000,001 Roumanians Rou-manians live in Transylvania. |