THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

y 1 ■ ■*. ROUMANIAN FLOUR. AGREEMENT WITH BRITISH BUYERS.

Bucharest, May 6. The Politique and other organs if the Margiloman pro-German party have been publishing articles violently attacking the agreement come to between the Roumanian Millers' Syndicate and the Briisli Buyers' Syndicate with reference to the making and purchase of flour for export.

The pro-German newspapers are par tieularly exasperated by the stipulation in the agreement with the British syndicate that no flour should be made for any other foreign buyers for four months, with the result that the contract with Turkey, Austria and Germany cannot be carried out during that time. Appeals ire made to the Government, to intervene.

The Government, replying to these attacks in the semi-official journal Independence Rumaine, points out that the British contracts were concluded before the establishment of the Central Export Committee, and must be considered as of a purely private character. Turkish agent, who came here in the hope of obtaining flour are also very jcaach annoyed, and are blaming the German consortium. They even go so far as to declare that the Germans have assumed the monopoly of re-victualling Turkey, and that the Turks cannot obtain the smallest amount of goods. The German consortium has established an i-.tiee in Constantinople which monopolises the sale of the city food supplies, thus preventing Ottoman tradesmen from doing business. "The greatest discontent constantly prevails in the Turkish capital.