Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-04
RUMANIAN TREATY
WITH QUADRUPLf
ENTENTE GIVEN
Shows Conditions Under
Which Rumania Entered
War.

Paris, Feb. 3.-The text of a treaty
signed on August II, 1916, between
Rumanla and the quadruple entente.
is published today by the Temps. It
embodies the conditions under which
Rumania entered the war. Followin.
are its various articles:
Article 1.-F'rance, Great Britain
Italy and Russia guarantee the ter
ritorial integrity of the Kingdom of
Rumania in the whole extent of its
present frontiers
Article 2.-Rumania agrees to do
clare WAR on and attack Austria
Hungary on the conditions stipulated
IN the accompanying military conven-
ton, and also engages on the declar-
atlcn OF war to cease economic rela-
lions and commercial exchanges with
the enemies of all the allies.
Article 3.-France, Great Britain.
Italy and Russia recognize Rumania's
right to annex the territories in the
Austro-Hunsarian monarchy stipulat-
ed by Article 4.
Article 4.-This delimits these ter
ritories, and adds: Dumania engages
not to raise Notifications in front of
Belgrade in a zone to be determined
later, and only to keep a necessary
force in this zone for police purposes.
The royal Rumanian government en-
cages to indemnify the Serbias of
Banat, who. in abandoning their
properties, wish to emigrate within
two years from the conclusion OF
peace. X
Article o.-Engages Rumania and
the quadruple entente not to make
separate peace. The quadruple entente
engage that the aforesaid territories
III the Austro-Hungarian monarchy
shall b annexed by the treaty OF
peace.
Article 6.-Rumania to enjoy the
same rights as the allies in the peace
prelimmaries and in the discussion
of questions submitted to the peace
congress.
Article THE present treatysto be
kept secret until the conclusion of a
general peace.
Military Conventions. {.
The military convention follows:
The principles Of the IL articles are
Article 1.-Rumania engages to at
tack Austria-Hungaiy ON August %,
1916, (eight days after the Saloniki
offensive).
Article 2.-Thes Russian army will
aid by vigorous action, notably in Blu
kowina, and thea Russian fleet will
watch the Rumantan coast, having the
right of the use of the port of Con-
stanza CKustendfe).
Article 3.-zRussia engages to send
into Dobrudja two divisions of in
fantry and one division of cavalry to
cooperate with the Rumanan army
against the Bulgarians, the allies to
make an offensive at Saloniki at least
eight days before Rumania enters the
war.
Article 4.-Rumania to receive from
the allies, by way ofRussia, munitions
end war material
Article S.-The necessities Of war
comradeship in arms being safeguard |
ed, no contracting party is subordin-
ated to any other.
Article 9.-The principal object of
Rumanian action will be in the direc-
ton of Budapest through Transyl-
vania. The Russian troops co-operat-
ing with the Rumanian army will be
under command of the chief of the |
Ruman1an army.
The delimination by Article Four of
the territories in the Austro- Hungar-
ian monarchy which it was proposed
Rumania should annex is as follows:
"The line will begin on the Pruth |
river at point on the present from
tier near Novoselitza: 1t will mount
the Pruth to the frontier in Galicia
a the confluence of the Pruth and the
Czeremosz 1t will then follow the
frontier of Galicia Bukowina and CALI
to the point Stog I'll
thence follows the line eparating the
waters of the Tisza and Vizo, reaching
the Tisza at the village of Trebusa
above which it joins the Vizo.
Thence it descends the Thalweg
Tisza to four kilometers below It's
junction with the Szamos river, leav-
ing the village of Ssaras Namealy to
Rumania. 1t continues in direction
to point six kilo-
meters east of the town of Liebreczem
From this point it reaches Crisch, a |
few kilOmeters below meeting it's two
affluents, the White Crisch and the
Rapid Crisch. 1t then joins the Tizsa
at the village of Algye. north of SEE
seeden, passing west OF the villages of
CrOshaza and BekessaLsO, making a |
small curve.
prom Algye line it descends the
Thalweg Tisza to its confluence with
the Danube and thence follows the !
Thalweg Danube to the present from
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