It was also contemplated that the occupation of Wallachia should be maintained for five or six years after the conclusion of peace.

Roumania should then give up its petroleum districts, its railways, harbours and domains to German companies as their property, and submit itself to a permanent financial control.

Austria-Hungary opposed these demands from the first on the grounds that no friendly relations could ever be expected to exist with a Roumania which had been economically plundered to such a complete extent; and Austria-Hungary was obliged to maintain amicable relations with Roumania.
This standpoint was most emphatically set forth, and not without some success, on February 5 at a conference with the Reichskansler.

In the middle of February the Emperor sent a personal message to the German Emperor cautioning him against this plan, which might prove an obstacle in the way of peace.

Roumania was not advised of these demands until comparatively late in the negotiations, after the appointment of Marghiloman.