Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-25
RUMANIAN RULERS SUFFER UNDER
 YQkf OF HUNS
German 4ilitarism Makes Fate of King and Queen
 Unhappy One.

jassy, Rum$nio. July i (By Courier to the Paris Cores pondent of The
 Associated P1Pss. .)-Threatened with the bludgeons of German militarism and with loss of the throne of Ru- mania if they offend the sensibili.ias or oppose the policies of their German masters. the fate of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Rumania is most unhappy. Germany has restored to every means of making their lot as uncomfortable as possible.
 Llvlng today in the little village of Bicaz, on the Rumanian-Austrian frontier, in what amounts to self imposed exile, every convenience or aaccaommodation that might be con- Sldered privilege has been taken from them by sthe Germans, who now have the country and the people com pletely suIbjugated and shackled. No opportunity has been lost by the Germans to exact retribution from the queen for her action in bringing Ru- mania to fight against the central powers, and no discourtesy or slight is considered tco great for the king TOT what the Germans consider his betrayal of the Hohenzollern family and his own blood relatives.
 When the queen sought recently to write to her mother, the Duchess Of Edinburgh, who is now living in Gotha, Germany, the German authori- ties told her she could do so only fby sending the envelope unsealed and having the contents examined by the censor. In the letter the queen at tempted to describe her anguish of mind and heart and the harshness of the German rule, but every such ref | erence was sunlmarily cut out by the censor.
 Again, when Her Majesty cabled to the American Red Cross appealing for the sympathy and support of the peo- pie of the United States, the German officials in Jassy threw every ob- stacle in the way and finally passed the message in an evpurgated form. The king likewise is made to bear mony unpleasant experiences. When recently the Rumanian Parliament was preparing to reassemble for the purpose of ratifying the Germany peace treaty, King Ferdinand was asked to open the proceedings His Majesty found it very painful duty. To avoid fulfilling it, he kept to his bed for three days and insisted he was no equal to the task. On the third day, Mir. Marghiloman, the pro-Ger- man prime, minister, came to the palace with an ultimatum In the most and uncOmpromising manner he said to the king:
 Open Parlianent today or you will be forced to accept my resignation as premier, which I now hold in my hand"
 
 The king realized that if Marghilo- man resigned new cabinet would be formed, with M. Carp, his hitterest antagonist, as it's probable head, and { that his dynasty would then be over- thrown. So he yielded to Marghilo- mans threat and went to the National theater in Jassy, where the sessions of Parliament are held. and delivered prefunctory address, which occupied not more than four or five minutes. Only the members who were avowed- ly German were present.
 Toward the German authorities the king and queen are forced by circum- stances to maintain an attitude quite contrary to the innermOst feeling of their hearts The royal family and indeed all the loy6i Rumanians place all their hope in, the United States and the allied nations. Fate of cir | cumstances will compel them for the present to tolerate the domination and yoke of Germany, but they look final ly to the entente allies to deliversthem from the bondage, into which the Ger man emperor has forced them.
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