Evening star., 1914-10-04

Prince William of Wied, according
to a dispatch dated London, September
2S. has abandoned
Prince Williams Albania and retired
n4x to the more hos
ptable mountains
on the same day elected Prince Nc
hemmed Burhan Ed-din Enendi. son
of the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid. as sue
cessor. The irrepressible Essad Fasha
is reported in the same dispatch as ar
rived at Dibra, whence he would march
to Durazzo with 10000 men. Other
dispatches intimate that Essad is an
agent of Italy. who will find means to
advance through Essad her own inter
ests in Albania
1t is not likely that the powers will
trouble themselves over Albania until
they gather in council to settle mat
ters growing out of the present great
conflict in Europe.
Rumors are rife that an understand
ing had been reached between Italy
and Roumania. Also that Bulgaria,
which had been reported as restless.
would remain neutral
Apropos to Bulgaria. it will prove
interesting at this moment to disclose
some of the unwritten history OF the
Balkans which lost that power the
fruits of her victories in the second
Balkan war with Servia and Greece.
The treaty of Bucharest was incontest-
ably bitter price paid by Bulgaria
for her act of alteration which led
her to attack her allies.
TIa D,rIr hx-i rAr,1a y-lc
able achievements in 1913 had placed
itself in the van of armies, and her
victories over the Turks challenged
universal admiration. With a popula-
bilized the enormous number of $780,
600 men.
Bulgaria's victories over Turkey were
quite beyond her widest dreams and
caused her to lose all notion of
proportion The sudden realization
that her Macedonian ideal was within
her grasp, as well as a great part of
Turkey in Europe. was too much for
her calm conception.
Then. too. there was the conquest of
Thrace. Her troops would enter an
cient Byzance. No
Bulgaria Was thought was given
Badly Advised. had % bees heen accredit-
ed with the desire to place a cross of
gold on the cupola of st. Sophia.
Many Bulgarians today acknowledge
that Bulgaria, for some unknown rea-
son, had lost her just sense of propor-
ton. That Bulgaria was being advised
badly was evident. and the story of
how this was done remains still to be
written.
Why should Bulgaria assume an atti-
tude of disdainful indifference toward
Servia and Greece? The former had
rendered serious and unquestionable
service in the combats with the Turks.
The Greeks had fought with valor and
success on land, and on the sea had
blocked the Turk from the Aegean.
Bulgaria questioned the value of the
battles of Koumanovo and Monastir,
also the efficiency of the Servians pn. .
der the walls of Adrianople. Yet but
for the French mortars brought into
that fight by Servia Adrianople could
not have been taken.
The Bulgarian delegates arrived at
the conference at London imbued with
of the powers were alarmed and the al
lies aggrieved. NJ. Danef reflected the
spirit that reigned at Sofia. He as
sumed the right to speak in the name
of the Balkanic negotiators. and spoke
with abundance and with little regard
for his colleagues. The conference was
visibly displeased and it brought out
in bold relief the reserved and modest
attitude of the Servian and Greek dele
gates.
Bulgaria announced her intention of
claiming all Macedonia to Albania,
Thrace to the Enos-Media line and the
expulsion of Greece from Saloniki. The
Servians and Greeks had played only
secondary part in the conflict, there
fore Bulgaria should be given the lions
share. Had Bulgaria assumed a &ore
moderate spirit she might have h41n
permitted to keep a large part of the
territory occupied by her.
In I912-1913 Bulgaria, exalted by her
successes against the Turks. would
listen to no accord with
Disagreement her allies. In May and
AM. June. 1913, when the
VI oAAAes' conflict with Servians
and Greeks was imminent, Bulgaria re-
fused to make concessions to Rou-
mania in order to obtain her neutrality.
NJ. Daneff believed that the sacrifice of
Silestria was quite sufficient, and would
not listen to the overtures from
Bucharest. The quadrilateral surely
was big price for Roumanian mac
ton. but it was largely compensated
by the prospective cession of the Enos-
Nadia line and the greater part of
Macedonia.
If Bulgaria would not treat with
Roumania, how much less with Servia.
The treaty with Servia for a fact was
less advantageous for Servia than Bull
garia. 1t contained a clause of ap-
parent value for Servia. The value.
however. was questionable. The treaty
said: 1T Austria attacks Servia, Bull
garia would go to her aid with 100000
men," Bulgaria's good faith may have
been entire, but at the moment of the
treaty the possibility of throwing the
Turks out of Europe had not been con-
sidered
Servia demanded of Bulgaria that she
should receive compensation for what
she had been deprived of by the action
of the powers.
Bulgaria replied June is. 1913. NJ.
Danef spurned all consideration of
questions of compensation. He dis
cussed the friendly note with all the
cold arguments of the lawyer.
1--WE will not examine your arguments"
said NJ. Daneff "It Is not a question
whether you have signed a bad treaty
or not. If it is bad for you SO much the
worse for you. We have paper which
is a bond: execute it without discus
sion. That which happened after your
signature does not concern u.s."