The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-02
CAUSES THAT LED TO THE
MoICARNAGE IN THE BALKANS
Moves Made in the Troubled Provinces of
asv Eastern Europe Since the Turk First
,r, Asserted His Sway


tecting them from the Turks. II began
with fonr years OF warfare by which
Austria ''pacifed" Bosnia and Herze-
sovina by the sword. Their people
would rather have remained Turkish.
Tney could get away from the Turk
They feared they could rot get away
from the Austrlans; and their fears
proved well founded.
VI course the Berlin Treaty was not
worth the paper II was written on,
England had to threaten Turkey with
her Meet to get little Montenegro's riRht
70 WIDER territories recognized. In 1885
bulgaria annexed Eastern Rumelia, be.
longing to Turkey by the Berlin treaty:
u was part OF the Greater Bulgaria"
Inc bernn Congress had broken up
Inc people welcomed the Bu,ra rians
as deiiverers. The powers made no at
tempt to put Eastern Rumeiia back into
turkey; and Bulgaria began building
up her magnificent army.
CAUSE OF THE BUlcARIAN.sEe q.
WAN WAR.
The Bulgarlan-Servlan war grew out
or this annexation. Servia was Jealous
and was we'll thrashed for Il, but thl,
Old not much alter the map. Neither
did the Turkish-Greek war, later. The
great powers would not permit Httls
Greece to be whitfield down by the Turk,
but they did something as brutal. They
denied the right Of Crete, an exclusively
Greek island, to Join Greece and they
actually policed her fourteen years UNI
der the nominal sovereignty of the Turk.
Actually. Crete has been independent for
years. governed by the powers through
an appointed Governor. Only the other
day she Joined Greece after all by the
admission of her elected Congressmen
at Athens.
In 1908 the next big Balkan trouble
came when Prince Ferdinand OF Bull
garia took the title. not Of King OF Bull
garia. as 1t Is sometimes printed, but
car OF the Bulgarians'-Czar OF the
Bulgarians wherever they might be. In
Guiding those OF Turkey. At the same
time Austria definitely annexed Bosnis
and Herzegovina, which she had held
thirty years by the Berlin treaty, but
which nominally still belonged to the
Turk. Russia was too weak just then
from the Japanese war to Interfere
and 50 the theft went unpublished. At
the same time Austria withdrew her
troops from the Sandjak Of Novibaz gar,
which she had kept until then under
her thumb rs right-of-way for a rail-
way OF conquest down to Salonica. 1t is
not good for much besides that, and to
Keep Montenegro and Servia apart.
That was the. situation up to two
years ago, when there came into power
In Greece nan. This Is Mr. Venixelos.
lie began building up the army and
Navy Win SOME success, as recent events
showed. What was more important. he
realised that II was foolish for the
Balkan states to hsht for their neigh.
DORIS liberation slngiy. They must Join
hands. And they did.
North OF Greece are a million Greeks
living under the Turkish flag. Greece
wished to rescue them.
South Of Bulgaria were more than q
million Bulgarians reaching soldly to
the Aegean sea: descendants Of people
who had lived there for centuries, con-
quered but never displaced.
South and west OF Servia lived a mill.
ION or more Servians under Turkish
inisrule. which sometimes included
massacre. The Servians wanted to res
cue them