Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-23
TWO MORE NATIONS
TO ENTER THE WAR
Greece and Roumania Are Expected
Soon to Take Arms Against
Teutons.
BULGARIA WILL STAY OUT
Allies Able TO Give This Assurance,
Having Arrived at Arrangement
of Balkan Problems In Event
OF victory.

Copyright 1914, by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON. Dec. 22.-tSpecial Cablegram
TO the New York World and Omaha BeeD
Two more Of the smaller nations OF
Europe-Greece and Roumania-are eN-
pected to enter the great war on the side
of the triple entent Immediately This
result was foreshadov cd by information
let out by officials of the foreign office.
IL was made known that Bulgaria at
last has given categorical assurance that
It will remain strictly neutral in the war,
and in consequence Great Britain, France
and Russia have given guarantees to
Greece AM Roumania that they will not
he attacked by Bulgaria il they assist
the allies.
Early Action Expected.
1t is unlikely that such assurance would
have been offered to these small nations
If the large nations were not certain that
the guarantee would lead to action.
Keeping Bulgaria out is regarded as a
great stroke of diplomacy by the entente.
1t has been necessary not only to over
come the influence of Germany and Aus
tria. eXerted upon tho German-born Car
Ferdinand, but to heal the wounds left
when Greece, Servia and Turkey in 1918
deprived Bulgaria of Salonica, Monastir
and Adrianople.
Promises TO Bulgaria.
How the Bulgarians have been brought
into line is not known. Diplomats here
recently understood that the country had
been promised Adrianople and large
slice Of the present Turkish territory In
Europe and some concessions by Servia
and Greece of territory taken. Roumania
is understood also to have been willing
TO give back territory near the mouth of
the Danube. These terms were not
entirely satisfactory to Bulgaria three
weeks ago, when Servia was apparently
beaten by Austria. Perhaps the Servian
victory has brought about a more mod
crate view.
May Threaten TeutOns.
Entrance of Greece and Roumana into
the war at this time will furnish a
serious problem to Germany and Aus
tria. Already the plight of the latter
empire is sufficiently grave, with the
Servians and Montenegrins again invad-
ing Bosnia and the Russians threatening
Cracow and Hungary.
Roumaia could throw into tho bal
lance at once an army of about 100000
"ell-euulppeu lIoOpSs WHO WouIu pour
into Pennsylvania and join hands with
the Russian forces already in Hungary.
This would stir up more trouble in
Hungary, which for weeks has been
demanding that sufficient forces DO sent
for its defense, and has been threaten
ing TO take the problem into its own
hands and use its troops independently.
Must Aid Austria.
with the Hungarian troops withdrawn
from Galicia to meet the Roumanians,
the Germans must find other forces to
help the hard pressed Austrians.
Greece. besides helping Servia to push
forward in Bosnia and promote an up
rising of the Serbs there and--in Herse-
govua, could greatly aid both Great
Britain and Russia by attacking the
Turkish coast in Asia and so forcing
the Turks to weaken their advances to-
ward the Russian Caucasus and the Suez
canal.
With the assumption that Greece and
Roumania are soon to be counted among
the allies the question asked here is
how soon will Italy come in?