understanding between Bulgaria and Greece;
and for the same reason the negotiations between Rumania and Bulgaria
are failing today.

The Bulgarians have turned from one to another of the peoples of the
Balkans in order to cheat them. But this attempt, made once too often,
at length has failed. But will this final failure bring to reason the
hotheads of Sofia? After the cruel disappointment they received at the
hands of Rumania, the Bulgarian politicians must understand that
whatever is won by war by war only is given back. No one is so stupid
as to give them willingly his dominions.

Do they wish to take them? Let them come. Let them declare war.
Because so long as they are not doing this, and so long as they
persist in their present methods, they are offering the spectacle of a
childish if not a demented people.

GRECO-RUMANIAN FRIENDSHIP.

_The Rumanian Minister, Mr. Filidor, presented his new credentials to
King Constantine on Dec. 14. His speech appears below._

Your Majesty! I have the honor to deliver to your Majesty the letters
with which his Majesty, my august sovereign, has deigned to confirm my
quality as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to your
Majesty, a mission which I had already the honor of filling under the
glorious reign of the great King Carol I., the founder of the Rumanian
dynasty.

I happened to be a witness of the most brilliant period of the history
of new Greece, during which your Majesty at the head of his Government
has succeeded, by his military talents, in bringing into realization
the great achievements of ancient Greece, whose majestic relics are
serving still as an inimitable example to the whole of mankind.

The military effort of your Majesty has been crowned by the Treaty of
Bucharest, which was a common pacifying work of Greece and Rumania,
and which was so instrumental in strengthening the bonds of friendship
and interests which so happily unite the two peoples.

Deeply impressed by the conviction that my mission consists in working
for this latter end, I dare pray your Majesty to grant me his august
favor, as in the past, and I assure you that I will employ all my
energy for the fulfillment of this effort, so necessary for the future
fortunes of both countries.

Where Rumania Stands in the Crisis

Declaration of Neutrality

BUCHAREST, Aug. 5, 1914.

The Council of the Crown has decided on the neutrality of
Rumania--Agence Roumaine.

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