Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-13
GERMAN MENACE
AR0USES BALKANS
Proposed Offensive Against
Serbia May Unite Little
Nations, 1t Is Claimed.
BRITISH STILL HOPEFUL
OF GETTING THEIR AID
Teuton Press Is Confident Entente
Representations Are Doomed
to Failure.

LONDON, August 13-The Balkan
capitals are showing the liveliest in
terest in the reports that the Germans
are preparing to launch q campaign
against Serbia, according to special
dispatches from Bucharest, Sofia and
Athens printed in this mornings news
papers Several Of the correspondents
declare that the proposed German Of
fensive against Serbia would be "a
blessing in disguise" because 1t prob
ably would bring about union OF the
Balkan states.
morning express the belief that the
Balkan situation is hopeful for the
quadruple entente powers.
Nav Be Pressed to Yield.
The general impression conveyed by
the editorials is that Serbia will be
successfully pressed to yield to the
BULGARIAN demands, and that the dip
lomats of the entente powers apparent
ly are now engaged in trying to ar
range a suitable compensation Tor ser.
bia. The assertion is made that II the
allies win Serbia probably Will be
given the whole of Bosnia and Herze-
govina, with an outlet TO the AQflatic
and an indirect outlet through Cfoatia
to Fiume. This, it ID declared, Will
of the concessions which she is asked
to make to Bulgaria.
Denies Bulgaria Bargains.
ROME, August 1.-THE Bulgarian
minister to Italy, D. Rizow. discussing
in the Tribuna the negotiations be-
tween the Balkan states and the quad
ruple entente, characterizes as unjust
statements that Bulgaria considers
herself indispensable to the allies and
is bargaining on that basis.
Bulgaria, the minister asserts, has
not changed her program She was
deceived in signing the treaty OF
Bucharest of 1913. under the terms :. Of
1000 square miles Of territory. What
bulgaria now wished, he continued,
was reparation based upon the prin-
ciple Of nationality for which the quad
ruple entente is contendfng.
View of Serbian Minister.
THE key to the Balkan situation is
not at Nish or Athens, but at Sofa,' >
said M. Ristitch, Serbian minister to
italy, in an interview published In the
Tribuna. Bulgaria does not wish to
move. She makes impossible proposals
to the quadruple entente and thus
gains time without declaring herself
IF Serbia gave Bulgaria not only a
portion of Macedonia. but Belgrade it
self. Bulgaria would still find some
excuse for not moving. The only way
to clear the Balkan skies Is for Ger
many to make a serious attack on
Serbia AS it would be necessary to
make this attack on the Danube, near
| Orsovs, Rumania would be obliged to
come forward to prevent herself from
being cut off from the rest of Eu-
rome. If Rumania moves Bulgaria will
be obliged to decide one way or the
other.
Germans Are Confident.
| AMSTERDAM. August 13.-Repre-
sensations made by the entente powers
can be regarded as doomed to failure
declares the Trankfurter Zettung, in
discussing the Balkan situation.
Regarding the same subject, the Vos-
| sische Zeitung says:
THE agreement between Bulgaria
and Turkey now is so complete that
| it cannot be disturbed. The active
fabrication OF notes suddenly begun
| by the entente powers is merely In.
tended to throw sand In the eyes OF
the world, as the entente powers know
only too well how the situation stands
REGARDING Bulgaria. They know also
| that the Germanic allies await with
indifference Rumania's decision"