RUMANIA AND HER DEMANDS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 5

RUMANIA AND HER DEMANDS

AMBASSADORS' DECISION. PLACE HERSELF IN THE HANDS OF THE POWERS. (Received March 1, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 28th February. The Ambassadors' Conference has decided to ask Rumania whether she will agree, like Bulgaria, to place herself in the hands oT the Poweia. [According to an authoritative statement of tho Rumanian case in the Morning Post, the territory Rumania now demands is fair compensation for the loss of Btssarabia to Russia in a previous war in which Russia liberated Bulgaria. Tho Rumanian people then lost a province after a successful war, and it wa3 generally understood that they were to be compensated in another direction, but the intention was not carried out at the time. Rumania has never abandoned her claim to the territory south of the Danube, a portion of which site now demands. For the sake of the peace of Europe sho submitted to its temporary loss, being soothed with the assurance that when there was a rearrangement of boundaries in the Balkan Peninsula she was to have a voice in the rearrangement and a new boundary. It is furtlier contended that acquisition of the territory churned is the only way in which Rumania can improve her access to the sea, and if she is denied her present claim the opportunity will never occur again. Rumania also declares that Bulgaria always knew that she claimed a new boundary, and would demand its concession whenever the map was changed, and it is further claimed that Rumania has for thirty years done nothing to disturb the peace of Europe, and that when she^ formulated her demands. she :did bo "fn an entirely friendly way." The Bulgarians, however, have a very effective reply to this statement. Rumania, they say, has no right to claim territory from a friendly neighbour, territory for whirh she has made no sacrifices^ and to which she has established no rights. Rumania ■Jvas invited to take part with the Allies in the war of liberation against the Turks, but! she refused, thinking that Turkey would win, and • !:•"• forfeited all right to be considered I- the Allies when tho fruits of victory were <t fl "-Honed. Moreover, it is contended that the i-..~sion of any Bulgarian territory would sow r.», «ecds of another war, as the Bulgarians „U ul ' 1 take tho first opportunity of trying to r««Tpjn what, fhpy had »•'■•;;-. ~^. Y'j.,a,])) , th-. Cumania-M c'aim is declared to bo fou2)d&c, not on t><<.- v\e\ of the Rumanian paople, but on tLc .i"."-j"ti 11s of the iH'l'ltivy party. The peopSt «v f.ivnpe, •1* not tiie Clic^celleiies, will s'dc "iV O'ligaria, but no emphasis l<i th'j past •\ui obscure the big' considers iio?t 'fuu ! 10 x of a bully to make a demand on a Uw L_ -""-lov the veiled threat 01 war when its^ nianhooa . -—^ ;n; n a ]ifr-and-death* strugglu with ' anotner cr untry.]