Evening journal., 1915-10-29
VIVIAN. THE pALKANs ANp rmE WAR.

ERENCH dissatisfaction with conditions existing in
II the Balkans has led the resgation OF Premier
Vviani and his cabinet and the organization of new
cabinet composed that Il is looked upon being
strongest that existed since the European war be-
gan. There in the capitals in Europe that
important changes the British cabinet also are i'm
pending because OF the failure of British diplomacy to
prevent the alliance of Bulgaria with Germany and
AusTia and 20 bring about armed Intervention
by Greece and Roumana in behalf OF servia II those
changes in the British cabinet it is natural to sup
pose that they will be OF strengthening nature and
result in activity by the British prosecuting
the in all quarters
II must be admitted that British French. Russian
and Italian diplomacy has not covered itself with glory
in southeastern Europe It permitted Turkey and Bull
gara to join forces with Germany and Austria. It
failed to induce Greece and Roumana to go to the re-
lief of beleaguered servia AS a result poor servia
Is being and line communication between
Berlin and Vienna the hand and Constantiople
the other hand is being opened That is a situation
which increases materially the difficulties OF the Quad
rupe Entente in fighting the a victorious
cluson While it does not necessarily alter the out
Of the war calls upon the nations in the Quad
rupe Entente to make sacrifices Of men and money
that would not have been necessary IL diplomacy had
played its proper part in southeastern Europe
1t is senseless for anyone suggest that the present
Teutonic-Bugarian in the Balkans is fatal TO
the OF the Quadruple Entente
Let il be forgotten that when in August 1914, the
Germans, flushed with exaggerated idea of their
power, started their drive toward Paris the boast
made that the Kaiser would his Thanksgiving din
in Paris and his Christmas dinner in London That
drive fell short of both goals The British French and
Belgian troops have fought IL to sandstill.
Let II not be forgotten that the Germans boasted that
their zeppens and submarines would destroy the
British navy; drive the British mercantile marine off
the high and reduce the people Of Great Britain to
state of starvation That aim fell far short Of
realization that the boast became ridiculous.
Let it not be forgotten that when the German drive
into Russia began and the Russian armies fell back
from line Of defense line of defense there many
timd persons who looked upon II the beginning OF
the end in the matter forcing Russia to and
eliminating her potential factor i'm the war. The
main object Of that drive to enveop and capture
the Russian armies. It failed Those armies in
tact in the field better equipped than they
when the fighting started and in several OF the sectors
on the offensive Meanwhile hundreds of thousands OF
German and Austrian troops tied up along the east
battlefront with dangerous and determined foe
and a Russian winter confronting them.
1t may be that the German and the Austrian drive
through the Balkans also will reach high-water mark
before It atains its goal Great Britain France Rus
sia and Italy are wonderfully resourcefu countries AS
yet they have scarcely begun fight That is partic
ularly true of Great Britain special object Of
man hatred and universally recognized Of the
greatest the determining factors in the situation.
There a cold-booded deberaeness about the Kitch-
system that bodies i'll for anyone against whom II
may be directed. No knows that better than do
the German militarists who responsible for this
war and who had not counted upon Great Britain being
a party to a shouder-to-shoulder ally Of France
and Russia.