Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-30
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the ship.
SOFIA, Dec. 2S.-"Bulgaria will
never rest until she has conquere,
the Macedonian territory which i
rightly hers is the message Of Ca
Ferdinand to the parliament.
ROME. Dec. 2S.-Czar Nichola!
has sent Ambassador Scheleko t,
Bucharest with a personal plea to tn,
Sing of Rumania to join the allies.
| NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.-The Brit
ish munition ship Pathau is slowl,
returning to Halifax. Engine trouble
caused the ship to abandon the trir
across the ocean.
The vessel was loaded at Hoboker
under a guard and sailed for Hull
England, Wednesday.
ALBANY, Dec. 2s.-A worlds
court league, designed to end the war
thru arbitration has been incorporat-
ed by Alton B. Parker. John Havs
Hammond, Oscar Straus, Henry
Clews, Adolphus Bush and others.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-Germany
has won the overland pathway to her
piece in the sun, as the close of the
fighting of 1915 merges into the sec
ong winter Of the European war. But
the seas still remain shut to the
Ieutons and economic distress and
food scarcity are exerting a more
pronounced pressure for peace in the
central empires than among the other
belligerent nations.
The primary cause of the war has
been lost this year to both of the
original participants. The conflict be-
gan over the irreconcilable Balkan
disturbances of Russia and Austria
Hungary. Each power wanted to be
supreme in Southeastern Europe. The
end Of the fighting in 1915 finds
Russia held back beyond the Balkan
border, while Austria-Hungary is
playing minor military part in Ser
bia under the direction of Marshal
Won Mackensen and the German gen
aral staff. German influences are
now dominant in the Balkans. The
kaiser has wrested the first prize
Of the war from the Slavs themselves,
md from his own southern ally as
we'll.
Bulgaria's entrance in 10 tie con-
-lict on the side of the Tautons has
been the years most important devel-
opmcnt. The military consequences
which have followed Bulgaria's action
have given to the Germans a clear
,oad from Berlin to Bagdad. The
Mesopotaman metropolis has long
been marked by German statesmen
10 become the Berlin of the middle
east andN the center. of Germany's
place in the sun. The years events
having opened for Germany the rear
sntrance into Bagdad, the kaiser must
continue to fight at the point of ex-
iaustion for permanent possession of
ibis precious right of way. The Brit
ish fleet can prevent Germany from
expanding overseas, but i. cannot
block the road to the now empire
n the east. This is the dominant rea-
son for Germany's interest in Bag
dad.
An Anglo-Indian expedition, after
IL months toll northward thru Meso-
potamia from the Persian Fluff, is now
trying to enter Bagdad by the front
loor. But the Turks under German
leadership have thrust the invader
30 miles to the south of the city,
and Bagdad at the close Of he year
remains safe for the Teutons. Never
theless, during the years fighting,
he British have captured the Gar
len of Eden and other territory be-
tween the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
greatly desired by Germany. If the
German dream of a Teuton;c empire
in the middle east is to conc true,
the district between Bagdad and the
Garden of Eden, $50 miles south,
must either be won by a new mill
tary offensive, or purchased in the
peace conference after the war.
The military developments of the
year make it certain that the Russion
bear will not be able to take his drink
of water from the Persian gulf; and
little less than a miracle must now
happen to give the car CONSTANT
nople for an outlet to the unfrozen
seas. The British effort to enter
Constantinople by way of the CALI
poll peninsula has failed during the
year, and Great Britain is row re-
luctant to undertake second cost
ly experiment in the southeastern part
Of Europe for Russia's sake. The
ease with which the Teutons and Bull
garians have been able to overrun
Serbia apparently has ben due to
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