Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

defended the rights OF the Hellenic govern
ment and that he refused to blame them.
That reply. 10 disdalnful OF the facts.
provoked feeling of strong Indignation in
Roumania. Il Is false that Greek stores
were Invaded and pillaged. The truth is
that In the cabarets there were rows be-
tween Macedonian-Greeks and Macedonian
Roumanians. both ottoman subjects. who
were prosecuted before the tribunals. It
was in the course of one OF these rows at
Giurgevo that a piece of stuff, which has
since been termed Greek flag and which
Greek rfoter pulled from his pocket In the
midst OF a brawl. was destroyed by the
Roumanian rioters. The police. overcome
by numbers could do nothing to Quell the
disturbance.
LAS to the writ of expulsion against the
editors of the Greek journal, the PATHS II
was executed in the full exercise of Rou-
manian sovereignty, and in conformity with
essential rights which every state pos
sesses with regard to strangers whom IL
may deem dangerous to public order. The
Roumanian government does not owe any
explanation on this point. The Greeks af-
firm that Roumanians have no business In
| Macedonia, where there are no Roumanians,
etc.
The Roumanans per contra. declare that
of two things, one. that there are Rou-
manians in Macedonia and that their rights
should be protected, the other IS that IL
there are no Roumanans In Macedonia,
why then these superhuman efforts to re-
strain and reduce them; why so much COM
motion In the face of danger which has no
existence"
The Roumanians claim that having re-
covered their liberty of action toward the
$1,000 Greeks inhabiting Roumania by the
denunciation of the treaties, they will pro-
coed to make 1t hot for the Greeks. On
the other hand there are not more than
100 Roumanians in Greece. which deprfves
Greece from exercising the power of re-
prisal.
Such is Roumanias answer to Greece
The Roumanians are descended in great
part from Roman colonists under Traian
established in Dacia. In the
Roumanian XVIII century. forced by IN
Ancestry. vasions. they founded the
principalities of Moldavia
and Vallachia. Occupied and protected
in 1929 by the Russians, Roumanla OBJ
tanned a renewal of the captulation sup
pressed in ZIG with the right to elect hos
podars, or princes vassals of the king. In
1859 CouZa was elected hospodar of Mol
davia and Vallchia. In the Russo-TurcO-
Roumanian war Roumauia coded Bes-
sarabia to Russia in exchange for Dob
rondJa; her independence was recognized
by the Congress of Berlin In 1878 and con-
stituted kingdom in 1881.
The entire military strength of the Rou-
manian army consists of permanent and
territorial army, each with a reserve, the
population being about six millions. The
war strength is placed at 3,94S officers. no.
600 men, 43.114 horses. The infantry is
armed with the Mannlicher repeating rife.
model 1893.
Charles de Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen
was proclaimed King of Roumania March
20, 1881. He married Princess Elizabeth
Pauline Ottelie Louise. the daughter OF the
late Prince of Wied November 10, 1869.
Queen Elizabeth is adored by army and
people, and in following the army as nurse
won the affectionate title of muma rautilor.
or mother OF the wounded. The death of
an only child, a daughter. caused her to
forget her grief in literature, in which she
has acquired celebrity under the pseudonym
of Carmen Sylvia.
Roumania executed consular conven-
ton with the United States by which Mr..
Eugene Schuyler was named charge daft
flares and consul general. Subsequently
this office was raised to minister in con-
nection with the post of Greece and Servia
in one ministry. 1t should be remarked
in the interests of the United States in
Roumania that the impolicy of such pro-
ceeding is manifest. A crowned head or
any chief of a government should not be
subjected to the affront of being asked TO
receive a minister who may be accredited
to another government, in the case of
Roumania: he is entitled to the considera-
ton of whole minister or none.
word about Macedonia will be oppor-
tune. A dispatch published in the Poster
Lloyd of Budapest a few
Macedonian days ago on the subject of
Question the projected international
financial control in Mace
donia, says: after the refusal of the
porte to comply with the note of the am
bassadors at Constantinople the situation
has become more critical than at any other
preceding phase of the projected reforms
in Macedonia
| The situation is as follows: On the 14th
of March last the powers consisting of AUS
tria, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy
and Russia, with the knowledge that the
disorders In Macedonia were due in great
measure to disorder in the finances of that
country decided to constitute a commits
sion to be named by them to control the
finances. The porte acceded to the demand,
but concluded to anticipate the commission
by an arrangement with a bank in Con-
stantinople which would render unneces-
sary the interference of Europe. The orr
entail banker counts for much in Turkey S
financial and political troubles, a fact well
known to the representatives of the pow
ers at Constantinople. The arrangement
with the bank therefore was refused. and
on MAY s of this year the powers addressed
the porte a collective note informing 1t of
their resolution to appoint a commission to
control the receipts and expenses of the
Macedonian budget. July 10 the porte
replied refusing to conform with the note
Of May declaring that results obtained
cient and satisfactory The porte further
more declared that the proposed control
by the powers was challenge to the SOW
ereignty and independence of the sultan,
and was unacceptable on that head. To this
the powers replied by the note Of July 20,
insisting upon the necessity of a control
and designated the members of the COM
mission. On September 10 the porte was
informed that the commission would as
semble on the LIST of October at Salonica,
and there being no evidence of co-opera-
ton on the part of the Turkish govern
ment, a note dated September % was sent
reaffirming the necessity of the European
control ION pain of mourning the gravest
complications and that the Ottoman gov
eminent in its own interests should has
ten to give the necessary orders that the
delegates at Salonica might enter at once
upon the exercise of their functions" To
this ultimatum the porte replied point
blank, that it would maintain its objec-
tons and refused the control. In the pres
ence of Turkeys defiant attitude there is
but one recourse-tne employment of force.
Meanwhile, Notwithstanding the refusal
of the porte, the commission has left Sa-
lonica in quest of Hilma Pacha, originally
designated as the representative of the
Turkish government, with the commission.
Hilmi Pacha is reported now at one place,