ustria against Rumania in 1913 should that country
attack Bulgaria.

He concluded by observing that the two sections of the Opposition,
Conservative and Conservative-Democrat, had declared for abandonment
of neutrality and an alliance with the Triple Entente, and expressed
the hope that presently this policy will be adopted officially. The
address was afterward agreed to unanimously.

A large number of Senators telegraphed to the President of the
Italo-Rumanian League at Rome expressing their happiness at witnessing
the realization of the league's initiative, and requesting the
President to consider them members of the Rumanian section of the
league, which, being convinced of the profound significance and great
usefulness of closer relations between the two countries, they joined
with enthusiasm.

"LEAGUE OF UNITY."

BUCHAREST, Dec. 27.

At a special session today the League for the National Unity of All
Rumanians acclaimed with grand enthusiasm the new committee, which has
as President the Rev. Father Lucaci, the great propagandist of and
martyr for the Rumanian cause in Transylvania and a member of the
Rumanian National Committee of Hungary. There were also elected MM.
Take Jonesco, Nicolas Filipescu, and Delavrance Gradischteano, all
former Ministers. The committee is charged with the hastening of
action by Rumania for the conquest of the Rumanian provinces of
Austria-Hungary.

RUMANIAN STATISTICS.

[From Le Messager d'Athenes, Nov. 28, 1914.]

According to statistics published in a Rumanian paper, when the
foreign press speaks of Rumanian aspirations it sums up the whole
question in the word Transylvania.

It is not unnecessary perhaps to remark that this word has in this
case a significance rather political and ethnological than purely
geographical. This word comprises all the Austro-Hungarian territories
occupied by Rumanians, with the understanding that Transylvania is the
most important as regards area and Rumanian popularity.

Actually the Rumanian claims on the Austro-Hungarian territories are
the following:

Transylvania--57,250 square kilometers, 2,850,000 inhabitants, of whom
1,750,000 are Rumanians.

Banat--28,510 square kilometers area, and 1,730,000 inhabitants, of
whom 700,000 are Rumanians.

Chrishana--Area, 41,338 square kilometers, and 2,920,000 inhabitants,
of whom 1,100,000 are Rumanians.

Mamoaresh--Area, 9,720 square kilometers, and 360,000 inhabitants, of
whom 120,000 ar