Water buffalos of Roumania. When you get to Roumania you are into the Orient, with its color and its Eastern atmosphere. In Roumania, for example, you first run across the water buffalo of the east. This is a land of strange contrasts. The water buffalo may be seen in dragging a plow. While in the adjoining farmland some enterprising chap is trying out a baby tractor. In the streets of Bucharest, great white oxen with sweeping horns drag rude peasant wagons along utterly indifferent to the honking of automobiles that may be either American, German, French, or Italian, or the well known flivver of the U.S. which has become international. In many sections of Roumania the transportation crisis has become so acute that yokes of oxen are extremely valuable in hauling needed supplies. It was the transportation tie-up, caused by depreciation of railroad equipment, that added to the country's misery and made American Red Cross relief supplies, brought in with whatever means of transportation offered itself, very welcome