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:: 1891000233

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-260008

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Held, Adolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/116681667

Title:: Zwei Bücher zur socialen Geschichte Englands

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1881

Scope:: XIV, 775 Seiten; 1 Portrait

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweites Buch. Entwicklung der Grossindustrie.

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74 CHAPTER II THE WAR PERIOD (1916—1918) SECTION 1 ROUMANIAS CONTRIBUTION According to the terms of the treaty of alliance and of the military con vention, on August 14th 1916, Roumania declared war on Austro-Hungary her troops taking up the offensive along the whole frontier of the Carpathians. We will not analyse the military operations as they followed their course, but it is certain that the spirit with which Roumania rushed into the war, was of such a nature, that she spared nothing out of her armed force, though practi cally her military preparation had not arrived at a sufficient degree of perfection and of fitness at which the Germans by their experience of war, and their special training in that line, had arrived. This first period of the war was a series of heroical deeds and sacrifices, for which the Roumanian soldier spared nothing. The central Powers were obliged to send important forces and all their mo dern war apparatus, to conquer inch by inch and after hard struggles the moun tain passes. And probably the advance of those forces would not have had the same success, if the action at Salonica had been carried on in the conditions laid down in the treaty of alliance, and if the allies on whieh we counted more espe cially, had not aggravated and impeded our military action by the slowness of their movements. The countrieswhich have not experienced the exodus of the retreat, will not be easily able to appreciate the wisdom of the Roumanian nation, when it gave up to the discretion of the invading armies, which were affrighted by the specter of famine 2 / 3 of the richest territory of the country. If we add to this that all the institutions on which the supplies of the army were based for renew ing its stocks were centralized in Bucarest, any body can see what endeavours had to be made, to dispel the despair which had begun to take hold of all, in front of this undoubtable reality. I. The Brittanic corn. After the retreat of the troops, the corn which had been deposited in spe cial warehouses built and arranged by the Roumanian State, on the demand of the British Government, would have fallen in to the hands of the enemy. Out of this quantity of corn, the, following quantities were transported and sold : 59 truck loads to the Russian armies, and 18.000 trucks for the needs of the Roumanian army, the countervalue of which must be considered as a regular war loan granted to Roumania especialy

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