Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Hockhill to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Bucharest, May 17, 1898.

No. 5. Roumanian Series.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the text and translation of the declaration of neutrality of Roumania during the war between the United States and Spain, which appeared in the Official Monitor of to-day.

Very respectfully, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill.

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

In consequence of the communications received from the Government of the United States of North America and the Kingdom of Spain, the following declaration, approved by His Majesty the King, is published:

The Government of His Majesty the King of Roumania brings to the public knowledge that it will observe the strictest neutrality during the war between Spain and the United States of North America.

The Government of His Majesty the King particularly calls on this occasion the attention of all citizens of the Kingdom to the fact that, conformably to the above declaration, they must abstain from all acts which might be considered as hostile to either one of the belligerent States, and that it is specially forbidden them by law to enlist, in whatever capacity it may be, in their armies, as it is also forbidden them to contribute to the arming or equipping of a ship of war.