[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 are Rumanians.
Bukowina--Area, 10,471 square kilometers, and 900,000 inhabitants, of
whom 300,000 are Rumanians.
Total area, 147,280 square kilometers, and 8,760,000 inhabitants, of
whom 3,970,000 are Rumanians.
In consequence, of 8,760,000 inhabitants of trans-Carpathian Rumania,
nearly 4,000,000 are Rumanians, 2,200,000 Hungarians, 1,000,000
Serbo-Croatians, 730,000 Germans, and so on.