Századok – 1937

Pótfüzet - HEGEDÜS LORÁNT: Lord Beaconsfield politikai ügynökének jelentései gróf Andrássy Gyula és Tisza Kálmán politikájáról a keleti válság idejében 576–616

[95] BE ACONSFIELD ÜGYNÖKÉNEK JELENTÉSEI. 611 Count Andrássy was engaged all the morning, and could not see me ; but he deputed Baron Orczy to assure me that he entirely concurred in the opinion expressed in the telegram, namely, that the Russian Government had no right to oppose the occupation of the Dobrudcha by Roumania the moment the latter had ceded Bessarabia. Count Andrassy had already, the day before yesterday, telegraphed to Count Hoyos, the Austro-Hungarian Minister at Bucharest, that he advised Roumania to occupy the Dobrudcha at once ; and Baron Orczy believed that in fact the Roumanian Troops would cross the Danube that very day, the 23r<!

. Baron Orczy continued that the reports received from Count Hoyos were much less alarming than those telegraphed to Lord Salisbury by Mr. White. Count Hoyos reported that the Government of Prince Charles had either actually come, or were on the point of coming, to an agreement with the Russian Minister, Baron Stuart, by which the existing Treaty arrangements as to the passage of Russian Troops through the Principality should be extended to the Dobrudcha, which district, in virtue of Article 22 of the Treaty of Berlin, now becomes an integral part of Roumanian Territory. Count Andrassy had desired that I should be informed that he intended to make a statement in this sense to the Hungarian Delegation in the evening, in answer to the interpellation of Dr. Falk, notice of which I reported to Your Excellency in my Despatch No. 66 of the 22d instant. I telegraphed the result of my interview without delay to Lord Salisbury, and to Your Excellency. In the afternoon I called on M. Balatchano, the Roumanian Minister, who told me that he did not at all believe that Count Andrassy was rightly informed as to the present condition of the negotiations at Bucharest. He himself had every reason to fear that no arrangement had been arrived at ; for he had received during the night a telegram from his Government, desiring him not to leave Pesth as he had intended doing, as a most important message would be telegraphed to him in the course of a few hours, and he could not imagine that it would have reference to anything but the question in dispute between the Government of Prince Charles and that of Russia. Under these circumstances I thought that I could not do better than return later, and find out what this important message might be ; and when I did so at eight o'clock in the evening, Mr. Balatchano was so good as to read me the substance of the telegram sent to him at half past eleven that morning from Bucharest. In this telegram Mr. Cogalmichano stated that the prospect of an agreement with Russia was as distant as ever. That the Russians would not accept the proposal of the Roumanian Government to extend to the Dobrudcha the stipulations of the Treaty of Berlin with regard to the passage of troops. That on the contrary they insisted upon the extension of the original Convention of the 4th April 1877, in virtue of which they would secure the right of erecting fortifications, and other advantages which they would not enjoy under the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin. To this the Roumanian Government had declined to accede ; and had consequently addressed a species of ultimatum to the Russian Minister, declaring that they could make no other terms than those which they had already offered ; and that if these were not agreed to by the 28th instant (as I understood, for M. Balatchano said "the 16th old style"), the Government 39*