The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-10
FRE NEW BALKAN STATES.
A. Deiimitcd the Principle Of Nationality
Has Generally been Respected.

A. Deiimitcd the Principle Of Nationality
Has Generally Been Respected.
To rnr EDITOR OF TIE SuN--Sir: Tho
new frontiers Of the Balkan States seem
destined to some permanence. sinoe they
are In tho main drawn with respect to the
principle of nationality. by tho Treaty OF
London Turkey was restricted to the
southeast OF v line drawn from Enos on
the .iEGean Sea to Midia Oh the Black sea.
The recovery Of Kirk Kilisseh and Adrian
ople from bulgaria by tho Turks has left
Turkey In Europe about twice az large as
the area that WAS designated by tho
Treaty ot London.
Tho new frontier begins Just north OF
Inioda on the Black Sea, runs westward n
little south of ~ degrees north latitude.
curves round Adrianople as 9 centre In Q
great bow of about ten miles radius TIL u
meets the Martha and follows that stream
70 the Aegean Sea. within these limits
tho population Is mostly Turkish and Mo-
hammedan. though Bulgarians predoini-
rate in tho north and Greeks occupy inc
seacoast. Bulgaria has gained on the side
Of the Black Sea the little port Of Agatha.
poll. with the whole basin OF tho little
Galadschio River. where the population
Is Christian Bulgarian. In the south Bul-
saria gains al western Thracc. including
the coast OF the AEGEAN Sea from TN" Mar
liza River westward TO the Mesta. ana
also In northeastern Macedonia the noun
tain GRIT narrow valleys OF the lnlAno
Mes.a and inland Struma. with Strum-
nitza In the basin OF western tributary
OF the Struma. The natives Of northeast
orn Macedonia are mainly Bulgarian
Christians who must welcome their incor-
poration with the Bulgarian Kingdom
But IN western Thracc the natives are
mainly Pomaks. 100000 Rulgarians or
Mohammedan faith. who showed their
contempt for Bulgaria's national aspira-
tons by horrible massacres of their Chris
tian bulgarian kindred In 1915.
For the first time In Its history Bulgaria
has won n wide outlet on the 1iIgean Sea
through n rich region with a mild. almost
subtropical climate. But the fomak coun-
try seems doomed TO be like Als1ce-Lor-
raine in Germany, region AKIN 10 its
connuerors IN blood but allen In Ideals
and aspirations. Rulgaria's gains In the
south more than offset "A loss In the north
east where Rumania has received Sills-
tria and Turtukai on the Danube and the
whole watershed north Of Narna. The In
hahitants Of this region. valuable FOR
strategic reasons but rather bleak ana
barren are mainly Ottoman Turks or
Mohammedan faith. So this cession to
Rumania does not dismember the Bull
garian nation.
Greece energies from the struggle with
Turkey nearly doubled in area. In the
south Tho Greeks gain the long, narrow
mountainous island Of Crete. which hens
In .he A.Gear Sea TX" great hreakwstcr
IN ,he aast Greece seems destined to gain
che islands az Chios (Homcr's hirthplsce)
and N!tylene Iesbos). where burning
sappho lived and sung" with Lemnos
Ssmo.hrnce and perhaps Tenedos at the
mouth Of the Dardanellos Two Islands
will probably remain undisturbcd In their
present status Samos which is Chris
tian Greek principally tributary 20 Tur-
i,ey and Thasos, whore the Khediv~ OF
Egypt Is monarch Of all he surveys"
on the mainland Greece gains southern
Epirus. tho three pronsed peninsula OF
Chslcedce. and al! the coast OF Mace
dcn!a The new frontier starts east of the
ISLAND Of Corfu Just north OF Philiatas.
and includes the upper Nozintza basin.
the whole Wistr!tya valley and the coast
region south OF Monastir and west OF the
mouth OF the Mesta. Greece gains the i'm
portant haven OF Salonica with It's 10000
Inhabitants. more than half Of them Jews
who speak the medieval Spanish used 10y
tNe!r soreta,hers who were driven from
spain In l4y2. The Inhabitants Of these
annexed regions are mainly Christian
Greeks. though the Z!nzar Wanach!ans.
Shepherds OF Mount Prdus. are akin to
the Rumanians. Albarians and Ottoman
Turks dwell here ard tN-re. and some or
the Greeks and Rumsnisns are Moham-
nedans.
scrv.a mas sbou, doubled sc area bv a
CAIN disregard ~ the principles " ration
atty Having conquered and armed the
Bulgarian district Of N'sch ~ 1875 the
sattl. raising Serbs are now ready to
annex the rich inland pasture lands Of
Macedonia with population Of Moham-
inedan Alhauiaus IN the north and Chris
tian BulgarlRns IN the south, as well as
tie Sarjak of NoN'baasr, where major
~ 81 tie population - Sevvian Nohari'
iaedau. unwilling to undergo benevolent
assimilation by their Christian kindred
Servia remains cut on from the Adriat!C
sea which washed IS cosst In the Midd.
Ages Ard from the .i.goau Sea, which IL
attained under King stephen the Beloved
,l77i-l356). who was prevented only by
premature death from uniting the Serbs
Creeks Bulc ariaus and Nlbaniaus into a
palfan Empire strong enough 10 keep the
Turks out of Europe. \s modern histo-
rlans have relieved him Of the charge u
numbering his own father. hc may we'll In
spirc III" S'rNian race as their ideal ruler
The Scrviaus IN the kingdom OF Monte
negro have gained n narrow strip ~ tn.
S,uiak Of Nov bazaar In tho northeast and
lrck with piakova on tho riaiu Of the
p,acllh.rds where tho gallant Servian race
wont down ~ defeat before the Turks In
'l3S9.
As ScrNia now marches with Monte
negro zolVcr"in or customs union be-
tween the two kingdoms would give ServIa
an outlet on the Adriatic Sea through the
MontcneSrn ports Of Autivari and Dul-
Cieno
Finally. Albania has been made an in
dependent nation. TO include Scutari and
tho nrin watershed I'm the north pe,Vino
and koritZa in the south and al the wild
mountain land west ~ tho northern con-
t'uuation of Mount Pnius The popula-
ton Of about 1000 400. divided into TosIs
and Geghs. who hate each other and can
hardly understand each others speech,
viii form Nohammedan Kingdom to be
rulod hv the Roman Catholic German
Prince Of WED, who viii probably he 10y
ally supported only by the 10000 Roman
Catholic Mirdite Albanlans In the north
ana by the troop Of German lanccrs who
will follow him into Albania.
Already the two factions Of the Albau-
ian race arc facing each other under rival
MohammedHu cheftaius and the outlook
seems stormy. The italian and spanish
roblonon who claim descent from George
Castr'ot ScaUderhcrC. tho Albanian ma
tinual hero who t"rr0rizcd the Turks in
the hftccu'h century, will nu doubt be
eager to stir up strife In Albania for their
private profit. To tho Greek Catholic klhan-
ans of TIA" south belonged the Immortal
Marco Bo21aris and his Suliutes. who did
- much tn free Greece from tho Turks
fnr IN the East "A common religion makes
"a close n bond as IN, tic az blD,I