ROUMANIA ENSLAVED

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16209, 11 May 1918, Page 10

ROUMANIA ENSLAVED

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) and N.Z. Cable Association.,*

(United Service.)

LONDON, May 9

British newspapers are of opinion that Roumania is virtually enslaved by the German peace terms, particularly by Hungary's seizure of the passes, tho German hold upon the Danube, and the stationing of six German divisions in Roumania, at Roumania*s expense, in order to secure Roumanian corn, fodder, wool, cattle, and oil for the Central Powers.

An inspired communication from Vienna points out that Austria receives 600 square kilometres south > f Czernowitz, and Hungary 5000 square kilometres of mountain land, as war damages. Austria-Hungary primarily relies on . the Roumanian destruction wrought in Transylvania for the justiiication of this annexation.

AMSTERDAM, May 9. The treaty between the Central Powers and lioumania provides that n committee of the riparian States shall have control of the Danube below Brailla. lioumania guarantees *reo traffic to all the States, and also permits warships to sail downstream to the sea and upstream to the frontier cf the State concerned.

German papers state that tho Queen of lioumania announced that she would refuse to recognise the peace. She would prefer abdication to reigning over a German ruled country. Quean Marie's children share her views and never lose au opportunity of insulting Germans.