. Review of reviews and world's work. Irei lUustratiiig I THE IRON GATE AT ORSOVA. WHERE THE FRONTIERS OF HUNGARY. RUMANIA, AiMD SERBIA JOIN(The taking of Orsova, last month, by the Rumanians, followed shortly after Rumanias declaration of war) ing its thousands of refugees as Paris hadreceived them exactly two years earlier. In-stantly there was an outburst in the Hun-garian Parliament. Hitherto the war had been kept away from Hungary. If theRussians had approached the crests of theCarpathians in the winter of 1914-15, if theCossacks had raided the western slopes on. (9«ar<fy mattlnn. Iwm
. Review of reviews and world's work. Irei lUustratiiig I THE IRON GATE AT ORSOVA. WHERE THE FRONTIERS OF HUNGARY. RUMANIA, AiMD SERBIA JOIN(The taking of Orsova, last month, by the Rumanians, followed shortly after Rumanias declaration of war) ing its thousands of refugees as Paris hadreceived them exactly two years earlier. In-stantly there was an outburst in the Hun-garian Parliament. Hitherto the war had been kept away from Hungary. If theRussians had approached the crests of theCarpathians in the winter of 1914-15, if theCossacks had raided the western slopes on. (9«ar<fy mattlnn. Iwm m«rlum«n, aixl I. ?< I -laiilry in Ticld kit pawing a Mitiling poini) 402 TIJR AMERICAS RRJIFAf OF RFriFAfS several occasions, the appeal of Hungary toBerlin had been promptly heeded. In theyear that followed the liattlc of the Dunaiecthe war had mo\ cd far away from Hunjiary,it had gone bejond the Russian boundary-and the menace of Serbia had been abolished. liut now a new and far more deadly perilwas in plain sight. Not merely was Hun-gary threatened by invasion, she was threat-ened with the loss of her fairest province,for the conquest of Transylvania would meanits permanent separation from the Magyarmonarchy. The conquest of Galicia had leftHungary cold, for Galicia was a Slav landbelonging to Austria and not to Hungary;and the defeat at Gori/.ia was too remoteto stir Budapest. But Transylvania was animmediate and insistent peril. In the debates in the Hungarian Parlia-ment Count Tisza held his own with greatdifficulty. He was forced to confess tha
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