The Washington herald., 1913-01-28

its subject peoples. Hence its power has
waNed or waned according to the ability
OF its rulers. Suleiman was among the
greatest Of these. and he added TO his
European dominions Belgrade. the great
er part Of Hungary. Temesvar, Moldavia,
Pennsylvania. Bessarabia. Jedisan. and
Rhodes. besides widely extending his ter
ritores in Asia and Africa His attempt
to capture Vienna in l5.9 failed.
The salient features OF Balkan history
in the last century, say UP to the year
1869. is the period in which the process
of ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF European Turkey
began. The Hapsburgs had added Hun
gary and Pennsylvania to the Austrian
dominions in 1879. and Temesvar in his;
while from Ills to 1879 krsjova.
Eaednthen, and Northern Servia were
occupied by Austria, after which date
they again became Turkish. Servia gain
ed a brief independence between 1894
and 1913. and was then once more sub
jugated by the Turks. In 1880 she was
granted by the Porte full autonomy. Two
years later Greece achieved her indie
pendence. and in 1889 wallachia and Mol
davia were formed into the tributary
principally OF Roumania.
A further stage in the breaking up OF
the Turkish Empire was caused by and
after the treaties of San Stefano and
Berlin, in 1878 BY the former treaty a
new autonomous but tributary Bulgaria.
including Rumelia and Macedonia. was
proposed. and Bosnia and Herzegovina
were to become autonomous under Turk
ish suzerainty. The same year, however.
those suggested territorial changes were
considerably modified by the treaty of
Berlin. much smaller Bulgaria was
constituted a tributary but autonomous
principally: Eastern Rumelia was
formed into a separate state under Turk
ish control; Bosnia and Herzegovina
with Novibazar in 1879 were placed I'M
der Austrian administration. the indie
pendence Of Roumania. Servia, and Mon
tenegro was formally recognized by the
Sublime Porte, and the two latter coun-
tries received important aCcessions of
territory.
Since 1873 the more important terri
toriaI changes have been the cession of
DulCigno to Montenegro; OF Southern
Thessaly to Greece In 1881: the union of
Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria in 1885.
which was recognized by Turkey the fol-
lowing year; the Bulgarian declaration OF
Independence. and the absorption OF
Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Austro-
Hungarian Empire in 1905.
Far away Tasmanias which has just
got a new Governor from Britain, is
famed for its apples and its pretty girls
also some intellectual ones. as witness
Mrs. Humphry Ward, who was born in
Hobart, the Tasmanian metropolis. II
was in Hobart that the career of the
Sir William Don. came to
a sudden end. There. too. the amazing
adventurer. Jorgen Jorgenson, who
seized Iceland. while Europe was busy
with Napoleon. closed his crowded and
career.
II is difficult to suggest the public raz-
ing Of n monument, though these are
often quietly removed when the COM
hero" is forgotten. BY the
arrangement the late King
Wis memorial will occupy the
site of the Duke of York's column in
Waterloo Place, London. Now. how
many passers-by could tell who that
duke was and what he did? Only an
ancient rhyme fingers in the memory.
and that could not possibly have caused
a statue TO be erected In his honor:
The brave old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men;
He marched them up a great high hill
And marched them down again.
1 FIANEUR.