Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
QUESTION OF THE BALKANIC UNION

When Italy joined the entente 1t was
garia would make
PERHAPS Looking haste to follow.
to Days Of Peace. diplomats aa we'll
as others, have not been justified and
maintained a reserve which is not diff
fcult to interpret. when Europe is
entirely worn out by war" said the
Balkan states to themselves. the Bal
kans will be strong" The argument
is not convincing, but that is not the
affair of the chronicler.
After Italy. Greece becomes the pivot
on which the destiny of the Balkan
states may turn. That the entente
and the alliance in turn have made
propositions to the Balkan states is
manifest. The nature of these propo-
sitions are secrets which have been
jealousy guarded by diplomacy and the
censor.
The resignation of the Greek cabinet
Gounaris august 16) and the recall of
NJ. Venizelos to constitute a ministry
are considered as events which are GER
tain to abruptly change the face of
things despite the calculations of either
Of the interested states.
A dispatch from Paris dated the Goth
instant states that Serbia has &C
copied the proposition Of the entente
and consents to yield Macedonia in ex-
change for a section of the Dalmatian
coast and adjacent islands and the par
tition OF Albania with Greece, except
Avlona, which will remain Italian.
When this is accomplished the entente
will transfer Macedonia to Bulgaria.
The plan only awaits the adhesion of
Italy"
The condition precedent is that Bull
garia shall renounce all pretensions to
Saloniki, Vodina and Uskub. and that
she would declare war immediately on
Turkey, aided by funds of the four al
lies.
A dispatch from Nish (Serbia) an
nounces that after Premier Pachitch' s
conference with Generalissimo Putnik
at Kragujevatz, where the CABINET
closely examined the proposals made
cession of territory to Bulgaria, it was
expected the skupschtina would reply
promptly.
The Greek situation is delicate. The
king on the one side is the brother-in-
law of the kaiser. and
Case of Greece the queen is reported
to have threatened the
Uellcate. king that she will re-
turn to Germany II the king yields to
the policy Of NJ. Nenizelos.
In the prologue of the drama Vent
zelos appeared on the scene and then
disappeared. Again the curtain Is up
and the play proceeds. There is con-
fict between king, queen and minister
that is, the people. Ventzelos ana me
people are for war on the side OF the
entente. The king and queen are TOT
neutrality on the side of the alliance.
Her majesty Sophie. Queen OF Greece,
declared as long ago as March: AS
long as 1 am here this country will not
abandon neutrality" To calm the an
ger of the queen the king went out INTO
the garden, where the low temperature
was cause of the pneumonia ina. en-.
sued. The malady of the king BECAME
an excellent electoral agent. In Mace
,ionia Fptrus and the Peloponesus the
government said: Greeks. you love
your king. do you not? VIM you pue
YOUR votes in the urns for Nenizelos.
which may mean to plunge your myers
IN fhe bleeding wounds of Constantine
the Vfctoriousr' The Greeks were per
niexed They wished for Nenizelos.
They sought the way to prove their
love for sovereign and their at'aen-
ment to the great statesman. II, In
ancient Tenedos there was an lcone'
or image Of the Virgin, when cured
every year thousands OF =.
Greeks only. The clergy sent TOT tne
leone The people having voted for
Venizilos would wash their hands OF
any possible bloodstains. so they fol-
iowed the leone from the Piraeus;
thirty thousand voters followed oeh'n ia
the metropolis to the paiae S,;h,,c,x a.,
thus the people Of the capital washed
their hands and their ina inary oloody
fingers The leone accomplished d
mira Gle. 1t was BROUGHT into the room
of the SOVEREIGN; w Ivy ha The is king rose
up and in the effort to kiss the image
The ahscess from which he was DYING
opened The king was saved. Inc Inc
kings popularity was augmented. bu.
venizelos was eiecteo-'iA' 49,
deputies were chosen
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The situation in Rumania has been
,nu of trouble. 60 and take Bess-
arabia from Russia"
yYyor Sentiment said. Germany, land
YOU shall be a great
IN humanla. nation and you can
remain neutral" Charles 1 died anu h's
nanbew succeeded. but the atmosphere
of the court remained the same Ine
naon,e held meetings and clamored FOR
var. and the press sustained the peo-
ple. .,s
NJ Bratiano April IS announced the
nr,ce of his collaboration with the en-
tente powers. The right bank Oh ,he
pruth. the plateau OF Cernovitz. .he
half of Maromourest. the Thesis the
And Russia replied that she
would accord the right bank OF the
sucbeaya. the left hank Of the Cere-
musel artificial frontier as FAR as D"r i.n
tin and the line from north TO SCUM
leaving Derretin and TemesVar' peho'''e
to the east. p,r,,,;,