Geschichte des Bremer Binnenhandels im 19. Jahrhundert namentlich unter den alten Verkehrsformen und im Übergang

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:: 89109413X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-7293

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Author:: Rauers, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/116364726

Title:: Geschichte des Bremer Binnenhandels im 19. Jahrhundert namentlich unter den alten Verkehrsformen und im Übergang

Place of publication:: Bremen

Publisher:: Verlag von Franz Leuwer

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (282, 46 Seiten, [8] Blatt)

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partially, whereas the presence of the Russian army on the Roumanian terri tory, became not only a charge, but even an additional danger 1 ). Abandoned by her Eastern ally, isolated from her Western allies, surround ed on all pirts by mortal enemies, Roumania resisted heroically, she went through all the hardships and disasters of war, and for nearly two years, not cared for by any body, she lives the most tragical page in her history which bad ever been tragical enough. Only those who were then in Roumania, reduced to a corner of her terri tory, can have an idea of the sacrifices made by her for the common cause, resisting, and by her resistance forcing the Russian army on her territory to prolong the maintaining of the Eastern front, which otherwise it would have abandoned much sooner. Later events have proved how the aid given by Roumania s Eastern ally was carried out, and how this aid ended by the Russian betrayal. Roumania found herself at that moment in the difficult and unprecedented position o a belligerent whose ally not only forsakts him, but what is more, turns against him, without having the possibility, on account of her geographical position, of receiving any help from her other allies. Roumania, who from the beginning had suffered the hardships of war, when the aid of her Western Allies in arms and ammunition, did arrive, though after long delays, when the Russian aid on the Roumainian front, did arrive, though insufficient and late, now by the falling off of the Russians, found herself completely cut off from the allies, and encircled by the enemy. After the first disasters, the Allies, fearing lest the petroleum reserves and oil industry should fall into the hands of the enemy, strengthening by this means its power of attack on the Western front, (for we all know what a de cisive part petroleum plays in modern warfare), demanded at the hands of Roumania the material sacrifice, of destroying this industry herself, by setting fire to the reservoirs, factories, wells, in fact all that constituted up to that mo ment, one of the most important riches of our country. The sacrifice on the part of Roumania of her only source of combus tible was such a tremendous loss, that the allies acknowledged Roumania’s title of creditor for the material losses she had suffered from this destruc tion in the interest of the common cause, and they undertook to pay these da mages directly to her. The advantages brought to the common cause, by this destruction, are evidenced by the weakening it produced for the enemy who counted on sup plies of oil products, so necessary in modern warfare, from Roumania 2 ). ') The effective Russian forces on the Roumanian territory, were : 43 divisions of infantry and 11 of ca valry, that is 1.000.000 men, of which aboul 530.000 were fighting troops, and the rest commissariat, and ditfdrent hospit al services, etc. s ) Ludendorf in his hook >!Ki"iegserienerungen« writing about the Roumanian oil products, says: »The stocks of petroleum which we found in Roumania, were not very considerable, The drilling plant had moreover been completely destroyed, and the wells skillully filled op. The English Colonel, Thompson, had fulfilled his task, which consisted in preventing us from working the oilfields. Hir work however did not render great ser-

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