Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72/570

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

American Legation,
Bucharest, August 21, 1914, 4 p.m.
[Received August 22, 2:45 p.m.]

[Telegram]

Talaat Bey and President of Chamber are here to induce Roumania to join Turkey in favor of Austria and Germany. It seems unlikely that Roumania will join Turkey as Roumania evinced she is strong enough to act independently.

Vopicka