The report of the Minister of Finance to the Counsel of Ministers on the situation of Roumania created by the reparation and interallied debts policy

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Identifikator:: 102318091X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-55477

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The report of the Minister of Finance to the Counsel of Ministers on the situation of Roumania created by the reparation and interallied debts policy

Place of publication:: Bucarest

Publisher:: Government Press

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (115 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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lb at a moment when this stock of corn had to be put in the impossibility of fal ling in to the hands of the enemy. 23941 which fell into the hands of the Germans, after the retreat of the troops. But a part of these truck loads was burnt by the Roumanian armies, to gether with the barns belonging to the railways, where they were deposited, according to the dispositions taken by the English delegates, and another part by the Russian in the course of the retreat operations after the fall of Bu- carest. (An: 9). It is right to mention that a part of this corn spoilt by the petroleum poured over it, was used later on by the enemy as food for the Roumanian pri soners camps, in order to show, that the Roumanian Government in its retreat, not only did not think of the fate ot the prisoners, but even did all that lay in its power, to render it impossible to supply them, by spoiling the corn, which had remained. After the general armistice of 1919, on the demand of the British Govern ment, the value of this corn was divided in the following manner. a) That which corresponded to the truck loads sold to the Roumanian army, on its retreat to Moldavia, was paid to Roumania in treasury bills subse quently consolidated in 1922, together with the other treasury bills. b) In the same bonds was passed the value of the English corn, left in the hands of the enemy, or destroyed with the agreement of the British Government, on the retreat of the Roumanian army into Moldavia. c) Only the value of the corn sold to the Russian army, remained to the charge of England. II Destruction of the oil industry Roumania did more. At the demand of the allies, she sacrificed, by des troying it, her oil industry. (An. 12 & 13). The sole object of this destruction was to deprive the enemy of one of its most important arms, and though it was a very great sacrifice which Roumania was making for the cause of the allies, she did not hesitate a single moment, nei ther did she doubt that one day or another the damages produced by this mea sure would be repaired by the allies as they formerly promised to do. For this object in Nov. 1916 on an intervention of the representatives of the allied Powers, which through Sir Barclay, the English Minister applied to the Roumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs telling him that the damages caused the by this measure would be repaired by the allies (An.12) and demanding the destruction of all the petroleum works, of the petroleum and the means of trans porting it, as well as burning the deposits of oil and derivates in the refineries and the store stations in the whole of Muntenia, and Dobroudja. In the districts

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