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Show wm HOPE FOR BIG BOOTY FR0MRUMAN1A Economic Gains Wrested From Nation by Treaty Outlined in Talk by Foreign Secretary. IN CONTROL OF COMING HARVEST Food Question to Be Faced "With Certain Amount of Confidence" for This Reason. LONDON, May 24. Economic advantages ad-vantages which (Jormany has obtained in tho peace treaty with Rumania arc equivalent to an Indemnity from that 3 nation in the opinion of German ex-& ex-& ports, Dr. von Kuehlmuun, the Gorman Gor-man foreign secretary, told the Berlin chamber of commerce in discussing the Rumanian treaty before that body, tho Merman wireless report of tho address hovvs. "German's control of the coming Rumanian harvests causes tho food question to be looked forward to 'with a certain amount of confidence,' Dr. vun Kuehlmann declared. German trade privileges also wore most important and these included tho lease to a German company for ninety-nine years of the Bucharest- Czernavoda - Constanza railway rail-way line, thus giving ready access to A' the petroleum Horns and grain centers. Referring to tho geographical situa-j- tion which eliminated the question of I . territorial acquisitions, Dr. von Kuehl muun said therefore it was all the more "necessary to obtain economic advantages advan-tages up to a limit consistent with the maintenance of Rumania's capacity for production." Two joints, he indicated, I 'must be taken into consideration;! first, granting Rumania agricultural and I petroleum production as urgently necessary neces-sary for the carrying on of the war by the central powers and for the transition transi-tion period; and, secondly, the important impor-tant role which Rumania has to fill in providing a thoroughfare to the east, especially as she dominates the lower courses of the Danube." "It is here," continued the minister, the states agrej to it will the .... in-national in-national Danube delta committee upon j which only states on the banks of the Danube can be represented. Only if ..the states agree to it will the countries coun-tries lying on the Black sea be able to come into it. Therefore it is especially espe-cially important for the German seaboard sea-board traffic that we have been able to secure sites for dockyards. "Along with the Danube the impor tance of the Rumanian railways must be considered and especially the Bucharest Buchar-est - Czernavoda - 'onstonza line over which Germany must have control. It has been agreed with Bulgaria that this railway to Constanza, which is to be made a free port with grain silos and I petroleum tanks, is to be leased to a German "company for ninety-nine years. "The cable between Constantinople and Constanza played an important role I before the war This cable is to be developed de-veloped to the utmost and secured from enemy control." Alluding to the agreement by which Germany had secured the Rumanian harvests of 1918-19 and the far-reaching option upon the entire Rumanian harvest har-vest for the next seven years, Dr. von Knehliuan said: "One can look forward to tho whole food question with a certain amount of confidence. Formal war indemnities were not demanded by Germany, but the numerous privileges we secured arc equivalent, in the opinion of experts, to anything which would have been yielded by indemnities. When, some day, the daingo caused fcy tnc U-boat warfare shall have been made good by newly built ships, the sea route from Constanza will regain its importance "It would bo a mistake, however, to turn our eyes only to the east. There arc, the mouths of the Rhine and Elbe. Future policy will have to see to it that German trade strives with redoubled daring and energy to travel once more on .the open sea Tho dny will come when the genius of our leaders and the incomparable courage of our army and aa v shall have obtained victory and peace for us. On that day the German merchant and the German ship owner will prove to the world that they have no equals; that severe trials have only made them better qualified to take up compel ii ion again 'and will prove that the proud motto, 'Nulli Secnndus' is appropriate to them." In the course of his remarks the for- eign minister announced that the extraction ex-traction ! of ' Rumanian petroleum had now been so far restored that the output out-put was two-thirds the peace time productions. |
