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Show Rumania Forced to Hard Terms. AMSTERDAM, March S. Explanation Explana-tion of the preliminary peace treaty with Rumania is made in a statement issued to tho Austrian press at Vienna. It says that Dobrudja was transferred to the central powers as a whole in order to make the decision easier for Rumania. The frontier adjustments in Transylvania, Tran-sylvania, in general, mean the protection protec-tion of the Iron Gates and the Petro-zeni Petro-zeni mines as well as precaution against fresh surprise attacks. The now frontier, however, will not go deeply into Rumania. The economic demands relate particularly to imports of petroleum and agricultural products and tho evacuation of Austria-Hungary by Rumanian troops affects a strip of Bukowina still occupied by the Rumanians. Finally, the statement says, the stipulation that Rumania must give transport facilities for the troops and transports of tho central powers to Odessa appeared necessary In order to safeguard the shipment of largo grain supplies from Odessa by way of the Volga, Dnieper and Danubo rivers to tho central empires. oo |