consequence of which Roumania was obliged to deliver large quantities of 
products, food, cattle, war material, etc. 
The armistice of november 11 th 191# and the Treaty of Versailles in arti 
cle 259, § 6 providing Germany’s renouncing the advantages of the Treaty of 
Bucarest, and her obligation of returning the goods delivered, proclaimed Rou- 
mania’s right to an integral restitution : 
The damages caused to Roumania by the anticipated enforcement of the 
Treaty of Bucarest amount approxiinatively to 1.600.000.000 lei; (Annex44) 
For the reparation of these damages, the same obligation appears also for Aus 
tria in the Treaty of S‘ Germain, for Hungary in the Treaty of I rianon, and 
for Bulgaria in the Treaty of Neuilly. These States, after the negociations car 
ried on for the adjustment of other matters deriving from the treaties, which 
were pending, acknowledged Roumania’s right, leaving it only to determine the 
quantum coming to each party separately *). 
Besides these two special claims against her enemies, Roumania still has 
another two claims against her allies, namely. 
3) Damages lo the oil industry produced by the destructions demanded by 
the allies, in the autumn of 1916, taking upon themselves these losses As we 
showed in chapter I, the total destruction of the Roumanian oil industry, was 
one of the sacrifices made by Roumania in the interest of the common cause, in 
order to deprive the enemy of the possibility of supplying themselves with pe 
troliferous products, a circumstance which strongly diminished their power of 
resistance (annexes 12, 13). 
The destructions demanded by the allies, were executed under the super 
vision of their organs, and the quantum of the damages was estimated both by 
these organs and by the mixed Anglo-Franco-Roumano Commission (annex 13). 
the part alone due to the private industry is estimated at about £ 10.000.000, 
for the State the damages are still greater. 
This claim of Roumania’s against the allies, is of a quite special character 
The destruction of the Roumanian oil industry is not a loss inherent to 
war operations but was provoked directly on the instant demand ol the allies, 
and after their solemn assurance, shat all the losses that would ensue would 
be integrally paid back, in order to restore as soon as possible to the natio 
nal industry, its principal combustible. 
These damages are of a totally special character, and must be recuperated 
by the Roumanian State, which on the other hand must compensate the 
damaged parties. 
This was the point of view which Roumania urged, in all the interventions 
we made, upholding strenuously the right of the State to receive this sum, 
and to distribute it to the damaged parties (annex 14). 
q Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria, eacli separately, signed a declaration that they were bound to negociate 
with Boumania, begining on January 1 st 1925, the question of restoring the dtmages caused to Roumania, by 
the anticipated enforcement of the Treaty of Bucarest, whatever be the result of the accounts, which these 3 
States may have with Germany preceding from their negotiations in Berlin.