The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-02-24
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! and Dalmatia are integrally part d
] the kingdom, though detached from
| by European politics at the congres
OF Berlin"
Mr.. Petronievitch pointed to larg,
map which hung ii his office, shown,
i the ancient confines of the Serbian
empire as well as the marginal line o
the frcntiers of that Greater Serbia
the creation Of which is in some
4 quarters regarded as the cause Of thu
war. Be this as it may, ii will certain
4 ly be one of the most important
changes in the map Of Europe il
Serbia and her powerful allies are sue
cessful against the Germans and the
! Austrians.
"You can see" continued Mr.. PetFo-
nievitch, "how difficult has been the
position of Serbia. with the Turks on
the one hand longing to conquer what
they had lost; the Austrians on the
other hand, urged by the Germans,
whose own expansion could only take
place by pushing the Austrians into
possession of all the Slav Kingdoms
Of the Balkans, thus leaving free the
German provinces of Austria for Ger
many. There is no doubt to our mind
that Germany has had the idea OF alb
sorbing the dual monarchy of AUSTRIA
Hungary, thus dreaming OF kingdom
extending from the shores Of the
North Sea to the AEGEAN at Salonika,
the Bosphorus and the Sea of Mamora
at Constantinople, and reaching out to-
a supreme control OF the Mediterran-1
can 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 this end, nor OF the
designing care with which Germany
has ever promoted her designs. AL
part of the plan always has been to
keep the states of the Balkans from
any federation or cohesion among
themselves This might have been
more difficult had not several of the
states had German princes for rulers. |
Serbia and Montenegro, you know,
with 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 !
hat AustroGerman diplomacy which,
las been SO active at Constantinople.
The Bulgarian war Of last year. as
we'll 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
io'S NNihN III tAiNa BUSY vi sftit iGhuot
lave turned out to be Austrian spies.
There never was a country so beset
~ spies and mischief-makers of all
Kinds as Serbia has been during the
,ast fifteen years, or since the Ger
nan emperor made up his mind that
! European war would be the onlyI
means Of acquiring new territory for
iermany.
Serbia is trying to demonstrated
o the whole world that her civiliza-
ion is on as high a plane as that Of
England and Ameica, even though her
esources and facilities are not
.reater than those of some OF the
american states one hundred years
go. 1t was the history of the Ameri-
an Revolutionary War, read by Kara
'eorge, grandfather of our present
ing, which inspired him with desire
0 lead his people in the uprising
gainst the TURKS in 1904"