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Show ill ILL FIGHT TEUTONS TO Op EH Take Jonescu, Vice President Presi-dent of Council of Ministers, Minis-ters, Says Country Will Follow Path of Honor. EXPECTS REUNION OF HER PROVINCES Great Britain, France and Italy Already Pledged and United States Expected Ex-pected to Do Justice. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 23. According Accord-ing to a Petrograd dispatch to German Ger-man newspapers, which was received re-ceived by an indir&ct route, the Bolsheviki have seized a portion of the funds of the Rumanian treasury deposited in a Moscow hank, and also taken the Rumanian crown jewels at Kishinev. According to the dispatch, Queen Marie of Rumania has fled from Kishinev to Jassy, the Rumanian capital. JASSY, numania, Jan. (By the As sociated Tress.) Take Jonescu, ono of the leading statesmen of .Rumania and vice president of the council of ministers, whose resignation from the cabinet King Ferdinand recently declined to accept, talked with the Associated Pres today about the present position of Rumania and what that country would expect as a condition of peace. As to .the future courso of Rumania, Mr. Jonescu declared the Rumanian people peo-ple would remain faithful to the entente allies until the end, "whatever that end might be." The vice president of the council said that . Rumania, like the UniLed States, had drawn its sword in defense of freedom and justice and that the nation would never rest until those principles, had been acuioved. "You are asking me to speak: of my country's situation when that situation is at its worst," said M. Jonescu to the correspondent. cor-respondent. "Remember if Russia makes peace and we are forced to seek refuge from a foe infinitely superior in strength of numbers we have no Corfu like Serbia when her soldiers were forced to leave their native soil. Great Suffering Endured. "The problems and sufferings of Rumania Ru-mania are little known in America. We have boen rather silent about them, as there are many things about which we could not talk. For example, the consequences conse-quences to tlie entente allies of the fail- , ore of Russia have been enormous, but to . Rumania the results of that failure have ; been almost tragical. Yet we have borne , the burden in silence. In spite of h 11 our i misfortunes, however. I mil convinced that my country will continue to fight until the end. We can follow only one course and tliat is the path of honor. We are under a pledge to remain loyal to the entente allies until the end. "But if a general peace should come the Rumanian nation cannot support a. belief be-lief that justice will be given to all others and not to herself. The union of Rumanian Ru-manian provinces now under the domination domina-tion of Austria-Hungary that nation so guilty for the provocation of the war with free Rumania is one of the elementary elemen-tary conditions o a just and lasting peace. Three Nations Pledged. "Great Britain. France and Italy are pledged to restore these provinces to Rumania Ru-mania as Premier Uoyd George and Foreign For-eign Minister Pichon recently have said. ; "While tlie United States is not bound 1 by treaty with small nations, these na-; na-; tions have established the justice of their war aims by sacrifices immensely greater in proportion to those of great nations. I admire too much, however, the moral greatness of the American soul, not to know that the American people are bound to us by the most sacred ties, and that their high sense of justice and duty will promrt them to raise their powerful voice in behalf of our little kingdom at the conference con-ference of peace at which will meet tlie representatives of all mankind and that they will desire to keep a seat at that meeting for Rumania at any price and at any sacrifice." |