Rumania Enslaved

Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 July 1918, Page 4

Rumania Enslaved

CRUSHING GERMAN TEEMS. The '' poace'' treaty which. Rumania has been forced to sign through Russia's betrayal is it grim document. It completely enslaves Rumania. Summarised its provisions mean: — Return to Bulgaria of the southern part of the Dodrudja acquired from Bulgaria in 1913. Tho northern part to be governed by a Germanic Commission. This is the way out of the quarrel between Turkey and Bulgaria, who is preening horself on having lost no territory. Rumania's Hungarian frontier to bo "rectified," i.e., Hungry is to control the p'asses and, it is believed, to get th.e fiouth-western corner of Rumania. Austria gets a slicc of Moldavia. No indemnity, but "special arrangements" for war damage. Tho Germanic Allies to maintain warships on tho Danube. Wido Danube powers arc taken by tho Germans. Occupied territory not to bo evacuated until "later on." The cost of the six Hun divisions there to bo defrayed by Rumania. This force's right to requisition is "restricted" to corn, peas, beans, fodder, wool, cattle, meat, timber, and oil. Surplus munitions to bo lianded over to the Germans "until the general peace," but really meaning for use in the West. A German General Staff officer to be "attached" to the Rumanian Commander-in-Chief in Moldavia, who will clearly be under the Staff officer's thumb. "All men serving in the army and navy who in peace time were employed in connection with harbours or shipping shall on demobilisation be the first to be dismissed." This is because the Germans want to accelerate the export of grain from the Ukraine. Economic relations to be regulated by separate treaties. These are known to involve a German monopoly of Rumania's groat oil industry and first claim on her harvest for a, term of years. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association, Limited (Stock Department), Pahiatua, report on thenlocal sale held at Mangaliao yards as follows: Owing to .the boisterous weather recently experienced only a small yarding of stock came forward. AVe sold the following lines: 104 m.». ewos in lamb 27a, 13 ewes in lamb (aged) lSs 4d, 58 do. 16s 3d, 16 cull ewes 6s 63 smf.ll hoggets 12s, 16 do. 9s, 17 cull do. ss, 8 wethers 295, 4 3-year steers £12 14s.