The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-11-07

ing by Baroness Brouitchz, wife OF
the charge daffaires Of the seryian
legation in London. at the home OF
Captain and Mrs. Edward Simpson,
Read street, where she is spend
ins the week end.
Baroness Brouitchz is in America
as an emissary of the seryian Red
Cross to secure aid from the Amer
lean Red Cross. She has been stop
ping in Washington with Miss Mabel
Boardman, director Of the American
organization, and declares that she has
assurances that her mission in this
country will be successful.
Native of West Virginia.
The baroness is an American, being
a native of Harrison county. West
Virginia. Before her marriage she
was Miss Mabel Gordon Dunlop, a
daughter of the late Charles Dunlop,
former general manager Of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad. When, a
young girl, having made study of
archaeology in the University of Chi
cago. she went to Greece and the Bal
kan states where she made the ac-
quaintance of Baron Bouitchz.
How has the Bulgarian army been
able to administer such crushing
defeat to the Turkish forces?'' was
asked. After considering the question
she replied:
1T is in one way. proof OF the
power of Christianity over the spirit
Of Mohammedanism. The Christian
soldiers of the allied states have been
fighting to libcrate themselves from
the rule of a non-christian nation and
they have been fighting with h won
derful zeal. The Mohammedans are
possessed with the idea Of fatalisml
If it is ordained that they shall win
in battle, they think that battle is
already won. Naturally this does not
encourage heroic fighting.
Turks Led BY Germans.
But that is by no means the only
reason why the Turks have not been
able to conquer. They have been we'll
trained, yes, but trained by foreign
officers. mostly Germans. Even now
they are led largely by Germans, and
their very commands are spoken in
the German tongue. They are ill fed,
half starved and disconnected. The
strength and prowess of the Turkish
army have been vastly overestimated.
incidentally it is not fhe Bulgar-
ians, alone, who have been doing all
the fighting. The very army that is
now pressing upon Constantinople, has
in it not only Bulgarians, but $4,000
seryians and $4,000 Greeks. That
army is simply following out that part
OF the schedule allotted TO it,
lie believe that the war is about
over. The allies will hardly take
Constantinople, for they do not want
to posses the capital of Turkey What
they have been fighting for and what,
now, they will be undoubtedly able
to get, is the freedom of Macedonia
and Albania. And those two states,
when given autonomy, will be a part
of the empire, or confederation to be
formed
but what is the cause of the ap-
parent uneasiness Of the European
powers over the outcome of the stu
ation?' she was asked.
Shows Grasp Of European Politics.
Baroness Brouitchz gave an intima-
ton of her grasp of the situation ac-
CURED by her familiarity with Euro
pean politics. England, she said, be-
ing a country of widespread com
merce was hard pressed to combat
the competition OF Germany and
Austria in International commerce.
England has been fighting hard
she said, ito keep Germany from es-
tablishing a Mediterranean port, as
was evidenced in her stand upon the
Moroccan question recently, Now
Austria, which ispractlcally Germany.
has been most anxious to have linked
TO her own possessions by railroad
line the Mediterranean port of Salon
ikl. If the Balkan states are formed
into a confederacy that railroad I'M
doubtedly will be built and it will be
to the interest Of the new federation
to be on the best of terms with Au-
stria."
With diplomatic shrug she dis
missed that question.