The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-11
ALLIES SENT SHARP
NOTE TO RUMANIA
Conference Seeks Acts, Not
Words, After Defiance.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, Aug. l0.-The note the supreme
council Of the Peace Conference sent to
Rumania on August 6 relative to the
armistice the Rumanians sought to i'm.
pose on Hungary was much stronger
than at first supposed. II stated that
the Peace Conference was compelled to
believe the Rumanian Government de-
termined to defy the conference and
separate herself from the Allies and as
ISOLATED Governments, and requested Ru-
mania TO deny by acts and not by words
the charges made against her. The text
Of the note follows:
Following the fall Of the Bella Kun
Government and it's displacement by a
socialistio government, the supreme
council on August sent TO Budapest
commission OF four Allied Generals to
enforce the armlstice OF November, 1918.
and also to meet the heads OF the Ru-
fnanian and Serbian armies in order to
protect the occupied territory and regu-
late the conditions OF occupation. These
decisions were brought to the attention
Of the Hungarian Government by tele-
gram and at the same time to the Ru-
manian Generals, the Rumanian Govern
ment and the Serbian Government.
ION August s the Supreme Council
having heard that the Rumaniaf author
| tiles at Budapest proposed to impose on
The Hungarian Government an Arniistice
contrary to the armistice concluded in
November with Hungary in the name
OF the allies Powers and In violation of
the general rights OF the Allies In so far
as separations are concerned, advised
| the Rumanlan Government that II re-
fused TO recognize the right OF the Ru-
manian generals to conclude an armis-
| tiee without the authorization of the
| allied Powers.
| TIM ma TINA ba -,
eminent was placed on its guard against
taking any action contrary to humanity
or to Its authority which might be CON-
mitted by Rumanlan troops, the council
also demanding that the Rumanian Gen.
eral-in-Chief be given orders to conform
TO the directions of the Commission OF
Generals representing the Conference
and acting by delegated authority.
Tho Peace Conference has not yet re.
ceived direct reply from the Rumanian
Government 1t learns that the Ruma-
Man Generals refuse to comply with tine
Instructions OF the allied Generals and
have prevented publication OF the tele.
gram addressed by the president Of the
Peace Conference to the Hungarian Gov.
ornment. They also are permitting their
soldiers to pilfer private property and
acquisitions, and are, sending into Ru
mania live stock and rolling stock. sub
hitting Budapest to an unnecessary
blockade which Is starving the city
They are destroying the railway lines
in particular one from Budapest L
Vienna. In fact they are committing q
series of actions which are as much In
violation of the decision OF the confer
ence as OF the rights OF the allied ant
associated Powers, and likewise, pri
MARTY, OF humanity.
"The Supreme Council learns at tn,
same time that the SociAllstic Hungarian
Government was overthrown by a couI
detat, it's members arrested and thu
Government replaced by one havinl
Archduke Joseph at it's head. In view
OF these facts the conference IL compelled
to believe the Rumanian Government
determined to defy the conference anC
separate itself from the allied and asso
ciated Powers.
an the event that the conference err
in this bellAf II requests the Rumaniai
Government 10 deny these statements a
once, not by words but by actioni
which can publicly prove that Rumanii
accepts and Is ready to execute in goot
faith the policy decided upon by tn
conference"
American delegates stated to-nigh
that the conference was still without
direct reply from the Rumanian Govern
ment