The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-23

the members of the race who are today outside the kingdom of Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Da1matia. are integra1ly a part Of the kingdom, though detached from it by European politics at the congress of Berlin.
 MT. Petronievitch pointed to a, large map which hung in hts office showing the ancient confines of the Serbian empire as well as the mar g1nal line of the frontiers of that Greater Serbia, the creation of which is in some quarters regarded as the cause of the war Be this as it may, it will certainly be one of the most important changes in the map of Eur ope if Serbia and her powerful Allies are successful against the Germans and the Austrians.
 You can see,' continued MT. Petro- nievitch 'thow difficult has been the position of Serbia, with the Turks on the one hand longing to conquer what they lost; the Austrians on the other hand, urged by the Germans, whose own expansion could only take place by pushing the Austrians into posses sion of all the S1av Kingdoms of the Balkans. thus leaving free the German provinces of Austria for Germany. There is no doubt to our mind that Germany has had the idea of absorbing the dual monarchy of Austria-Hun- gary, thus dreaming of kingdom ex- C0LQloS IFOIn- the SnOG0S OI, the NOr1h Sea to the Aegean at sSolonika5, the Bos- phoros and the Sea of Mamora at Con Stantinople, and reaching out to 3. su- prene control of the Mediterranean and even the Black Sea. No one who has not lived on the shores of the Danube has any real conception of the fanaticism with which Austria has worked to achieve ths end, n6r of the designing care with which Germany has ever promoted her designs. A part of the plan always has been to keep the states of the Balkans from themselves. This might have been more difficult had not several of the states had German princes for rulers. Serbia and Montenegro, you know, wdth the exception of Italy, are the only states of Europe that have rulers of their own blood and faith.
 Bulgaria, closely allied to Serbia in feudal times, and whose liberation from Turkey was effected by Russia, has ever been the working ground of that Austro-German diplomacy which has been so active at Constantinople. The Bulgarian war of last year, as well as Turkeys participation in the present war, was the outcome of this diplomacy and intrigue. Serbia. has been wiser than Bulgaria or Turkey. We have not been any too fond of strangers. Too many of those who nave come in the gu1se of friends have l turned out to be Austrian spies. There
 never was a country so beset by spies and mischief-makers of all kinds as
 Serbia has been during the past if
 teen years, or since the German ern-
 peror made up his mind that a Flu
 ropean war would be the only means
 of acquiring new territory for Ger
 many.
 Serbia is trying to demonstrate to
 the whole world that her civilization
 is on as high a plane as that of Eng land and Austria, even though her re-
 sources and facilities are not greater than those of some of the American states one hundred years ago. It was the history of the American Revolu- tionary War, read by Kara George grandfather of our present king, whfcf inspired him with a desire to lead his people in the uprising against the I Turks in 1s04'