Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-10-23
Turkey and the Balkans

I .NNONf. lNNg ItNfllfl Win rNNu IN
lnen' success that they declared
themselves KINGDOM eieciing
Grand shupan Michael king Pope
GREGORY VII recon zed their govern
ment ant there 0egan a period Of *
pansion and pr0gress which might
nave made seryia q great nation had
/ Il not been 20. the untimely invasion
Of tho Turks and subsequent warfare
from 1871 70 1883
/ 81 the time the empire. a they
/ proudly styled IL. fell under Turkish
Ilec,ion II embraced Bosnia. Alta2-
Ia Macedonia. Thessalay part o.
Bulgaria and all Of the Grecian pen
iinsHla except Attlca and Peleponne-
s when the final victory OF the
/ Turks sas certain. the handful OF
'r1ops that remained Of the once
powerful Serb army. headed by a few
a0.lcs with their wives and families.
.Iod into MONTENEGRO. who're tines
/ have held an undlsputed sway even
until .h, present time
o. pas not until the beginning OF
he Nineteenth Gentry that the Serbs
-W,re able 20 gather sufficient mill
iary energy 70 resist the Turkish SOW
Hre.yus l1ler Kara George In 1904
they started o revolt with the assist
ance OF Russia we're able 20 achieve
partial success with complete indie
u.uiruce In sight Then came the
Nlpoleoric wars and the assistance
0f Russia ANS Withdrawn 7 r-f
vas quick 20 take advantage OF the
situation and CO. a few months had
ra'. 19d aI. tac losses suffered IN
fHe short lived revolution
DO 1918 me serbs under Nilosh O
erogi'eH suddenly rehelled again
ard This time overthrow the Oot'o-
90 rulr Nl0sh was named king
ul mo autonomy Of his government.
-..osr'7ol by me porte, though N
nll masters s'ill retained me "a Ht.
To keen rarrisons IN the country
From that time until the treaty of
Berlin. 'he relations between servia
ann flo Ou0rhn r~oi-e we're clu-|
'Innally changing
King Michael in 1867 succeeded ~
os'i0g the Nos'em garrison adn Sc--
i1's freedom was undlsprted. Then
90 year later Michael was assassinat-
on and an that he had been able 20
accomplish In the cause OF indepen-
doncr was nndone There ensued in
1876 % war with Turkey and in four
months the Porte was arain undis-
pu'cd master
In 1851 under The treaty OF Bpr-
lin 40 the close OF the Russian-Tur-
wish war. Soryia was given com
r'o'e Independence and undertook 20.
celebrate four years later with ore
OF the occasional wars with Bulgaria
Not until the present coalition was
.Qrmed has Servia been able to for
j. the result 49, Alexander.
2 NfNFn NNIa iU' A.NlNHIn NlfNfUifN 80
formidable a front 20 their invaders
that the Serb army suddenly found
ITSELF on a desperate defensive The
Iulca-s crossed the border and were
carving the war straight through 'hc|
country when the powers interviewed
MONTENEGRO the LITTLE ration which
has taken the leadership In The pres
en' struggle against the Moslem Is by
reason Of ancestry. tradition and on.
yironment q war-like country Never.
since the day lone ago when the Serb
mobiles and tho remnants OF their
t-oons fled into the mountains. has
ne Independence OF the tiny king
lom boon cesfnli. contested
was only after on existence OF several
rn1red wears that the powers were
willing 70 accede liberty to so small
ration. Bat in he meantime the
Nortener-ins were not Greatly con
,etncd Those who sought 10 dispute
Their freedom with force OF ARM
were driven back and the descend
ants OF the Serb mobiles continued 10
reign and the ancient Serb tradition
kent alive