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  article ­
  259,  §  6  providing  Germany’s  renouncing  the  advantages  of  the  Treaty  of
Bucarest,  and  her  obligation  of  returning  the  goods  delivered,  proclaimed  Roumania’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  Austria ­
  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  carried ­
  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  petroliferous ­
  products,  a  circumstance  which  strongly  diminished  their  power  of
resistance  (annexes  12,  13).
The  destructions  demanded  by  the  allies,  were  executed  under  the  supervision ­
  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  national ­
  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.