The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-02
$4,000 DEAD IN
THE BALKAN WAR
Eastern Europe's Bloody Conflicts
BIots on Years Annals


CRY Richard Fairchild ia Detroit
Free Press)
Michaovellian as To diplomacy and
indcscribably horrifying as 10 carnage
the two Balkan wars. bloody blotches
on the year Just closed, viii be writ
ten down by historians as among the
most terrible in human annals
Nothing in history. perhaps can be
pointed 20 for comparison with the
series of moves, counter moves, ultl-
matums, secret preparations for war
secret movements of troops. secret at
lacks before war was declared inhu-
man butchery of defenseless men.
women and children, burning of homes
mosques, churches, towns and cities,
heroic assault, patient and courageous
| endurance of starvation and thirst,
long suffering in the cause of the faith
crland, and all the elements of barbar-
Gus warfare among nations of a COM
mon cause-nothing in history was
quite like those wars
Even the civil war Of the American !
nation was not So repellant in the |
features Of subtle dupliciry. deceit. dip !
lomatic rigging and artful |
wire pulling. for the civil war, though J
an encounter Of brother against broth
er, was more or less q war above |
board.
All Europe Watching Snarl.
In the Balkans. first as between
the Balkan allies and Turkey. then
among the Balkan nations Snarling.
killing and butchering over the spoils
OF the first war and finally in a varie-
" of battles here ana there as flick
ering fires following a great holocaust,
the tricks ana consplracles were in
credible. For all Of Europe was en-
gagged in making moves on the Bal
kan chess board.
With Austria standing out as the
leading PLAYER, the Balkan chessmes
we're switched here and there SEEM
inely without regard 10 the sanctlty
Of life or properly. ,
Russia England, Germany and
France played their parts. Each part ,
was all self, each nation Unanswered
for some supposedly little advantage
which It's statesmen i'm misguided
believed might eventually
come.
Witness the results in carnage. in
yoeful waste:
First Balkan War.
Bulgaria-35O 900 soldiers mohilIzed.
10000 dead $500 100000 in actual J.
OsSeS.
Seryia-250.000 soldiers modified
70, 900 dead; loss. 100000, 900.
Greece-l50,00O men modified: TO- =
100 dead; $7O,0OO,0OO loss. .
Neutrality-suspicious. 900 mobill2ed 5000 II
lead; $4,000. 900 loss. .
Turkey-45O,O 600 men in the field; q
co. 900 dead; wars cost $500, O00. 900. %
These figures. of course, are esti- -
mates and cannot include the serious "
oss among the wounded, or the waste "
n human energy of thousands Of men
endered useless as workers; nor in =
he suffering entailed because of these u
nd related conditions u
Second Balkan War -
Rulsaria-Dead, 10000; losses, $780, 81
10000 :"
Seryla--Dead. 10000; losses. $780, 90
% 900. o.
Greece-Dead. 10000. losses. s5O.- ''
% 600 SC
The British war office recently esti- ~
e
ne cost Of the first war, and 100000 :.
10 that of the second; a total of ap- w
roXimately "A billion and a quarter
ollarS with scarcely any definite re- :"
ats. Add the infinite costs of life '''
Icriilce, the injury to the several gov ~
'nments because of this drain and the VI
lal statement would stagger the =
1agination. ~
And virtually nothing accomplished! -
Known slain, 3jS,00O, and almost W
)thlng TO show for the sacrifice. 3"
All this because the so-called great w
,wers' not only permitted it but at "
mes encouraged the engaged ma ~
1ns TO clutch more tightly at o broth ~
$ throat, 10 put more impetus into ~
" SN'lh p'n'Ht 10 MI more tTtHtntS
Ith blood and bodies. >"
Are Estim ated Profits. ~
All, but there was a result an Aus
ian statesman recently remarked,
III no pointed To the following with !"
bte smile: WI
Bulgaria received 1900 square kllo- W.
eters Of Macedonian soil and 4lO, 900 III
pulation; Of Thrace, she obtained VI
900 square Kilometres and 500, 900 b"
pulation. Bulgaria lost 1000 square y"
Ometers of the Dobrudja to Rouma- -
T. and gained net $4,000 square kilo- u
aters and 100000 population. 'n
Greece formerly had 2,632 900 ropu- 20
ion and got l,J2O. 900 new inhabitants WI
d 5000 square kilometers new ter
ory-Crete, South Epirus, South Ma.
donna. Saloniki, Drama, Sores and
ivala.
Servia used to have not quite 3,000,- Wv
D population and won 100000 in "
btan,s and $4,000 square kilometers. y.
Montenegro obtained 1000 square -
and 100000 inhabitants. ~