Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1916, Supplement, The World War

File No. 871.6131/1

The Minister in Roumania (Vopicka) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Bucharest, February 2, 1916, 1 a. m.
[Received February 3, 1.30 p. m.]

220. As a result of recent Entente purchase of 80,000 cars gram, since confirmed to be wheat, the Central empires threatened Roumania and there was a danger that the present ministry would be changed and a Germanophile ministry with Marghiloman at head placed in power. To avert this the present ministry conferred with and sold Central powers 100,000 cars of different kinds of grain. Financial arrangements not yet concluded.

Vopicka