The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-10
RUMANIA DEFIES
PEACE COUNCIL
Refuses to Sign Treaty With
Austria and Is Thrown
Out of Entente.
SERBS STILL HESITATE
Balkans Boiling Over in First
Test of Wilson's Economic
Boycott.
By Stot Correspondent Of THE Sun.
Copyright, 1919. oil rights reserved.


PARIS, Sept 9.-Rumania will not
sign the Austrian treaty tomorrow
at st. German and from the American
and British viewpoint has absolutely
eliminated herself from the Entente
group of Powers, with the possibility
of the gravest consequences for her
future. The Supreme Council to-day,
upon receiving her positive refusal to
sign the treaty, based on her conten-
ton that it involved an invasion of
her sovereignty. drew up a note in
| forming her that she could not share
In the reparations nor receive the
Banat. of which she is in part possess
sion already.
| Thus situation entirely new to the
conference is presented differing radi-
cally from the case of China, which re-
ceived nothing from the German treaty
either in territory or in reparations
Rumania would have received per cent
| or the reparations, amounting to ST.
| 00,O00,oO0; she loses this but she
gains what she has taken from Hun
gary. That is hardly equivalent, how
ever, to the reparations
Furthermore. having removed herself
| from the Entente group. she will not re-
ceive Transylvania under the Hungar-
IAN treaty, the Americans and British
say. The question now arises how thes,,
territories, occupied already by the Ru-
| fnanian army. can be taken away from,
her. BY her action apparently she has
thrown down the gage to the Peace
urh
grave problem of taking away from her
what she has already seized in territory
and spoils, with all southeastern Europe
watching the outcome.
Serbia also will refuse TO sign the
treaty tomorrow, but this is unimpor-
tant because the Peace Conference has
received assurances that the Serbians
will sign in three or four days as a re-
suit of certain concessions made to her
to-day regarding minorities in parts of
her old territory. However, some be-
lieve that the Serbians may stiffen in
their attitude as a result of the Ru-
manla's refusal to sign.
The Balkans have boiled over, and
almost anything may result from the
present situation, which arises almost
entirely from the determination OF the
Council OF Four months ago that the large
Powers should dictate to the smaller ones
how they should treat minorities, al
though refusing to apply this principle
TO themselves. Poland fought against
the provision for time but was obliged
to succumb; Rumania. feeling herself
economically independent, elects to defy
the decision Of the Council OF -Four.
The Italians and the French to-day,
as before, showed that their sympathies
still were with her, contending that she
had not left the European concert,
while Foreign Secretary Balfour and
Under secretary FOLK heid tnat sine
was out and should be 20 treated. The
Americans declared that the whole
crisis could have been avoided II Ru-.
mania had been blockaded long ago
but this action was W 10 Europe rather
than to America
kumsnla, the Americans believe, is on
mad spree, but is bound 10 ask for
giveness ultimately. As a result Of her
defiance the mlnorities and commercial
treaties that were TO have been nego-
tiated with her, as provided in the Aus
trian treaty. will be dropped. Rumania
now being an outcast, In the American
and British view