Evening star., 1919-08-16
RUMAN|A
TO STRIP HUNGARY
Supreme Council Says Rep
aration Must Be Fixed
by Allies.
TEXT OF PARIS REPLY

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Friday, August 15.-Ru-
mania will not be permitted to strip
Hungary, according to the draft Of
the supreme councils reply to the
last note from Bucharest. which was
completed at today's meeting of the
council The Bucharest government Is
informed that the fixing of the
amount of reparation to be made by
Hungary. as well as it's distribution.
is a matter under control Of the al
lied and associated powers and that
until final decision is reached all
terial now in Hungary and subject
to distribution will be under the
common administration of the allied
powers. The text of the reply follows;
Reply to Rumania.
The peace conference, without re-
verting to a certain number Of points
which call for correction. on it's part
notes with satisfaction the Rumaniah
declaration that it intends to work
in agreement with the policy which
the conference adopts in Hungary. 1t
interprets this declaration as an in
dication that Rumania, as a state par
ticipating in the peace conference.
intends to conform to the decisions
of the conference communicates
through the military mission dele
gated to Budapest by the supreme
council.
Directions sent three times by the
conference to the mission of allied
generals and communicated to BuL
charest have defined explicitly and In
detail the present policies of the al
lied powers toward Hungary, the dis
a rv11 a Hnn0ar{Qn
revictualing of Hungary and the abb
stention from all interference in the
internal politics of Hungary, preserv-
ing for that country a free express
sion Of the national will.
No Immediate Restoration. =
"The supreme council insists on the
fact that final recovery of war, rail-
way or agricultural material or OF
cattle. ETC., cannot occur at present.
According to the principles of the
peace conference accepted by all the
allies and applied in particular In
the treaty of peace with Germany. II
is the right of the assembly of the
allied and associated powers alone to
fix the reparation to be made by Hum
gary and determine upon it's distri-
button among interested states. Nej-
ther the RUM nian army nor the Ru-
manian COVE @Lment has the right NJ
self to fix R.lmania's share, assets of
all kinds belonging to Hungary be-
ing a pledge held by the allied pow
ers in common"
Delivery of the Rumanian note, In
which the Bucharest governme1t
claimed that the Rumanians In con-
flscating property in Hungary were
merely getting back their own prop
erty" and insisted that the armistfce
of November. 1918, mo longer existe,"
was delayed, according to a statement
made by the Rumanian delegation to-
day, because of its great length and
the difficulty experienced in decodiug
it. The Rumanian delegates declared
that they wished it to be understood
that no amendments to the note were
added following its arrival here.
Rumanians Make Denial.
A formal denial that the Rumanian
government favored the advent to
power in Hungary of Archduke Jo-
seph was ISSUED today by the Ru-.
manian press bureau. The statement
says in part:
The archduke's violent hostility
toward the Rumanians is very well
known. AS commander of the Austro-
Hungarian troops in Transylvania he
permitted the soldiers to commit
atrocities on the Rumanian popula-
tion. When there was talk of depos-
ing King Ferdinand the archduke was
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