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. RUMANIA'S CLAIMS. [From The London Times, Nov. 25, 1914.] SOFIA, Nov. 23. The efforts made by Germany and Austria-Hungary to win over Rumania, or at least to induce her to refrain from prosecuting her claims to Transylvania, are being pursued with indefatigable energy and perseverance. The same methods are being employed in Bucharest as here, but on an even larger scale. The issues involved seem to be more fully realized by the Central European powers than by their opponents, and no pains are being spared to draw Rumania and Bulgaria within the orbit of their influence. The campaign in Bucharest was at first attended by a certain measure of success, owing to the attitude of M. Bratiano, the Premier; of M. Carp, a former Prime Minister, and of M. Marghiloman, the present leader of the Conservative Opposition. But many influential Liberals have already associated themselves with the programme of the action advocated by M. Take Jonesco, the chief of the Conservative-Democratic Party, and of M. Filipescu, a former Conservative Minister, whose advocacy of a forward policy threatens to cause a split in the Conservative camp. The great bulk of the political world desires to profit by the European crisis to secure Transylvania, the only difference of opinion being with regard to the advisability of immediate action. The consultative committee of the Conservative Party has passed a resolution demanding the abandonment of neutrality.