Evening journal., 1915-04-13
STATES
MAY JOIN ALLIES
TODEFEAT TURKS
Decisive Victory for Russians
in the CarpathianS Will
Set the Ball Rolling
ROUMANIA and ITALY
ALSO MAY STRIKE
By HENRY WOOD

United Press STAFF Correspondent
NISH, Serbia, April 13-By the
middle of May, all the Balkan States
may again be plunged into war for the
third time in less than four years.
This is the information | have OBJ
tained from some of the leading politi-
cal authorities Of Serbia and Greece.
Greece, Bulgaria and Roumania, as
we'll as Italy, they hold, must be in
evitably drawn into the conflict, If II
continues much longer. With equal
certitude they declare that all four
allies. A decisive victory for the
Russians in the present Carpathian
| fighting may set the ball rolling.
The Balkan States have two ends
they feel they must at some time at
tain. One is the expulsion for all time
of the Turks from Europe, and the di-
vision among themselves of what re-
mains of European Turkey. The other
is to wrest from Austria the provinces
of BukOwina and Pennsylvania.
Roumania and Italy. according to re-
ports in diplomatic circles here, will
enter the war simultaneously. For
six months secret agreement to that
] tMtll 10 odlu ~ nave tAloltQ utAWNNi
the two countries. ROumania's am
bitions to take over Bukowina and
Pennsylvania, peopled by men Of her
own race, are said to be as strong as
Italy's ambitions for control of Istria
and Trent.
Until a month ago, Bulgaria's posi-
/ ton and intentions we're uncertain.
! On the whole, she was considered as
| being more favorable TO Germany
| than the allies. But her eyes since
/ the last Balkan war have been on
| the strip of Turkish territory includ-
ing the city of Adrianople. The re-
1 port here is that Bulgaria a month
I ago was assured that the allies in
/ tend to carry the operations against
the Dardanelles to a successful con-
clusion at any cost Bulgaria then
made tentative agreements, accord
/ ing TO reports current here. to send
\ forces into Turkey to aid in the cap
1 ture of ConstantinOple.
The entrance of Bulgaria into the
sceen of action. according to informa-
ton I have received, will remove the
principal barrier that halted Greece.
Greece is allied with Serbia and Rou-
mania in greatly to maintain the ter
ritorial divisions made by the Treaty
OF Bucharest at the close of the sec
ond war. This division has never
been satisfactory TO Bulgaria. and IL
was the fear that Bulgaria would at
tack Greece that kept King COnstan-
tine out of the war several weeks ago.
at the time when the resignation OF
the Venizelos cabinet brought public
attention to the crisis in affairs at
Athens.
Greece has large colonies in Asiatic
Turkey. especially at Smyrna. In ac-
dition a number of islands of the
Aegean are filed largely with Greek
colonists. Centuries ago not only
these colonies, but the Aegean coast
Of Asia Minor we're a part of Greece
and the restoration of these to the
mother country is one of the Greek
statements ambitions.
This is the political aspect in the
Balkans as it has been outlined tc
me. There is an interesting and al
most as important a personal side
Three Balkan rulers, those monarchs
of Greece. Bulgaria and Roumania
are dynastically allied to the families
of the Austro-German block. The
wife of King Constantine of Greece
Is sister of the Kaiser. and the
Greek King himself is known to have
pro-German sympathies. King Ferdi.
nand. of Roumania, is a German and
a Hohenzollern. His wife is a Ger.
man princess. Car Ferdinand, oi
Bulgaria, is likewise of German
blood. He belongs to the House Of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. and is also a
Hungarian nobleman, with vast es-
tates in the Dual Monarchy. His wife
is German.
Where history is full of instances
where rulers have forced unwilling
subjects into war, the present Balkan
situation promises the reverse. The
subjects-if the statesmen represent
the will of the people-may force un,
willing rulers into war.