The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-09
QUEEN REJECTS IT
Marie of Rumania Refuses To
Accept Treaty.
Threatens To Abdicate Over
Hun Peace Pact.
ALL OF D0BRUDJA TAKEN
Bulgaria Is Enriched at Ru-
mania's Expense.
Efforts To Conceal Truth Made
by TeutOns.
ALL OF DOBRUDJA TAKEN

Amst erdam, May Queen Marie
CT Rumania has announced she will
rot recognize peace pact just signed
with the central powers, according to
Il dispatch from Bucharest published
in the German press.
The queen is quoted as declaring
she would prefer to abdicate. This
also is said to be the attitude of the
queens children.
Queen Marie is the daughter of the
late Alfred Ernest Albert, duke of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and a prince
of the United Kingdom. Thus. while
a British princess. Marie has German
blood II her veins. She was married
to King Ferdinand in 1893.
Terms of Treaty.
Amsterdam, May S.-According to
an inspired communication printed in
the Vienna Press, copies of which
have been received here, it is pointed
out that under the terms of the Ru-
manian treaty Austria will receive to
the south of Czernowitz, capital of the
crown land of Bukowina, piece of
Rumanian territory about 500 square
kilometres in extent Hungary's ac-
cession of territory will be 5000
lated mountain country.
The communication points out that
the payment of the damages primarily
affects the destruction wrought by Ru-
mania in Pennsylvania. 1t says also
the Bulgarian premier, NJ. Radoslav-
off. in an address referred to the APP
portionment to Bulgaria of the Do
brudja up to within a few kilometres
of the line of Constanza-Tchernav
The remainder of the province. he
said, for the moment was left under
the co-domination of all the allies
(Teutonic). Bulgaria, the premier
concluded, had not been required to
give territorial compensation to any
one in return for the territory she had
acquired.
Eight Clauses in Treaty
The peace treaty signed by Ger
many and her allies with Rumania
consists of eight clauses. The first
restores peace; the second demobil-
ICES the Rumanian army, except ten
divisions, two remaining as protection
for the frontiers of Bessarabia, and
eight in Moldavia, the total not to
exceed 10000 infantry and 5000
cavalry.
All OF Dobrudja Taken.
The third clause separates Dobrudja
from Rumania and restores to Bull
garia Bulgarian territory, which fell
to Rumania by the treaty of Bucharest
in 1913. Rumania cedes to the CEN
trail allies that part of Dobrudja north
of the new Bulgarian frontier line to
the mouth of the Danube. The from
tier is rectified in favor of Austria
Hungary.
State property in the land ceded by
Etumania passes, without indemnity to
the states which acquire these regions
The Inhabitants. however. shall have
the right of option and emigration.
No Indemnities(?)
The fourth clause deals with indem-
mites, the signatories of the treaty re-
nouncing any claim to Reimbursement
for the costs of the war, but special ar
engagements are to be made for dam
ages caused by the war.
The evacuation of the occupied ter
ritories is taken up in the fifth clause,
while the sixth provides for free navi-
cation of the Danube, Rumania sur
rendering the right to collect tolls on
ships navigating the river or entering
ports. The central allies have the
right to keep warships virtually any,
where on the river.
Equality of all religions In Rumania,
is provided for in clause seven, while
the eighth clause has to do with the
economic relations of Rumania with
the central allies. These will be reg
ulated by separate agreements, which
will go into force simultaneously with
the peace treaty.
Navy To Be Free.
Article VIII of clause two. dealing
with the navy reads:
The Rumanian naval forces will be
left to their full complement and
equipment, insofar as their crews, in
accordance with article TX are not to
be limited until affairs in Bessara bia
are cleared up, whereupon these forces
are to be brought to the usual peace
standard. EXceDfed herefroy, NO
river forces required for the river
police and naval forces on the Black
sea, employed for the protection of
maritime traffic and the restoration
of mine-free fairways. Immediately
after the signing of the peace treaty
these river forces will, on the basis
of a special arrangement, be placed at
the disposal of the authorities en-
trusted with river policing. The
nautical Black sea commission will
reserve the right of disposing OF the
naval forces on the Black sea and a
naval officer is to be attached to this
commission in order to restore con-
nection Herewith.