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B) The distribution of the changeable parts and of the models and 
drawings necessary for keeping up the rolling stock. 
C) The distribution of the stock of tools of the workshops of the former 
monarchy in order that the possibility of reparation in the workshops of the lines 
transferred, should be the same as in the workshops belonging to Austro-Hun 
gary in proportion with the respective numbers transferred. 
D. The division of the expenses incurred by this distribution. The Rouma 
nian Government is probably the most interested in the solution of this matter 
(especially those marked at points B. and C.) for the lines of the territories 
attributed to Roumania, only had workshops of third and very seldom second 
category—category which was far from corresponding to the importance of 
these lines ; all the principal reparations of engines and carriages being made 
under the former rule in the big workshops left in Hungary and Austria. So, 
after the conclusion of the peace Roumania was obliged in order to make up 
the want of power of reparation in the workshops in the transfered territories, 
on the one hand to make disadvantageous contracts with the factories in the 
states where there was a strong industry, and on the other hand to put her own 
private industry to contribution for repairing a part of the rolling stock attri 
buted to her. 
In regard to the expenses (point D. above) the Commission of reparations 
not considering itself competent to take a decision referred to the Conference 
of Ambassadors, which by a decision of May 16 th 1923 and by a letter of Jan: 
5 th 1924, decided that the expenses of the provisional Commission (Dent Com 
mission) should be supported by the States taking part in the distribution, and 
determined the quota to be supported by each State separately (Roumania 
10.17°/o). Whilst as concerns a complaint of the Austrian Government, for the 
expenses advanced by it, the Conference was of opinion that they should be 
supported by the same states. 
The Roumanian Government consented to advance its quota, indicated by 
the Conference of Ambassadors, for the expenses of the former provisional 
Commission just as it had consented to advance the expenses needed for its works, 
demanded by the Vienna Commission making at the same time expressed reserves 
for reckoning all the expenses imposed by the treaties on the final account; Hie 
Roumanian Government is of opinion that these expenses are to be exclusivly 
at the charge of the grantee States, and if the Allied and associated Powers 
had to contribute to these expenses, in no case can this contribution be limited 
only to some of the Grantees as the treaties of Peace give the value of the 
rolling stock which is destributed to all these Powers. Therefore the Rou 
manian Government is of the opinion that both the sum of 538100 fr : gold 
advanced by it for the expenses of the Vienna Commission, and comunicated 
to that Commission, as well as the expenses made by it for the works of the line 
demanded by the Commission, should be taken into consideration at the esti 
mation, at the same time as the other expenses of the same nature made by other