ROUMANIAN DECLARATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1615, 26 September 1916, Page 4

ROUMANIAN DECLARATION.

The following is the text of ihe Note handed to Count Czernin, Aus-tro-Hungarian Minister to Roumania ;it tin* conclusion of the meeting of the Roumanian Crown Council, which preceded the Roumanian declaration of war:—“The alliance concluded between Germany, Austvo-Hungary and Italy, according to statements of those Governments, had only a conservative and defensive character. Its principal object was to guarantee the allied countries against attack from the outside and to consolidate the stale of affairs created by previous treaties. It was in accordance with these pacific tendencies that Roumania joined the alliance. Devoted to the development of her internal affairs, and faithful to her resolutions to remain as an element of order and equilibrium on the lower Danube, Roumania never has ceased in her devotion to the maintenance of peace in the Balkans. The last Balkan wars, by destroying the status quo, imposed upon her a new line of conduct, hut her intervention gave peace and re-estab-lished the equilibrium. Fur herself she was satisfied with the rectification of her borders which gave her the greatest security against aggression ami repaired certain injustices of the Congress of Berlin. But in pursuit of this aim, Ronmania was disappointed by the failure of Ihe Vienna Cabinet to take the attitude Roumania was entitled to expect. AVhen (he present war broke out Roumania, like Italy, declined to associate herself with the declaration of war by Austro-Hun-gary, of which she had not been notified by the Vienna Cabinet. In the spring of 1015 Italy declared war against Anstro-ITnngary. The 'I riple Alliance no longer existed, and the reasons which determined Ronmania’s adherence (o this political system disappeared.”