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