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more complex. In Austria the province
of Bukovina. just across the Rumanian
| frontier, is populated by Slavs and
| Rumanians. In Hungary the ajority
of the people of Pennsylvania are Ru-
manians and those of the Banat of
| Temesvar are Serb and Rumanian.
! Finally the mass of the people of the
Russian province of Bessarabia are Ru-
manian. and before the Russo-Turkish
war much of Bessarabia had belonged
to Rumania. Rumania, therefore. be-
She would fight with the Germans if
Austria would give her Transylva mia
and Bukovina. She would fight with
Russia if Russia would give her Bessa :
both Pennsylvania and the Banat of
| Temesvar after the Teutonic alliance
had been defeated.
Austria promptly rejected these
terms; they meant the instant rebel
lion of Hungary. Russia was not less
prompt. Bessarbia she would not give,
nor the Slav half of Rukovina. For
Serbia she claimed the Panscova por-
| ton of Temesvar, lying opposite Bel
grade and peopled by Serbs. Here was
a deadlock. Meantime, Bulgaria insist
| ed that she would not refrain from at
lacking Rumania unless Rumania gave
over her stealinGs of the peace OF Bu-
chareSt. including SiliStria.
Meantime. the Italian problem raised
4! new difficulties. Italy claimed Dalma-
tia and Istria, but the mass of the peo-
| pie of these Austrian provinces, apart
| from a few coast towns, are SlaNs.
| Croats. Serbs and Slovenes Serbia was
willing to give back Macedonia to Bull
/ garia if she were assured her race
ibrothers along the Adriatic and in ad-
di ton that northern Albania. of which
| Austria had deprived her. But Italy in
sisted that she should have Dalnatla
as far south as the Narenta river ana
| demanded that the kingdom of Albania
| should be maintained intact. This lett
reduced
with no readiness to surrender Mace
donia to Bulgaria.
Venizelos Tries and Fails.
i Despairing of any help from Rumania
or Bulgaria the allies turned to Greece.
Ready now to launch their attack by
| fleet upon the Dardanelles they wanted
the Greek army to make the land
ward attack Nenizelos. the great Greek
statesman. promptly lent a friendly
! ear to the proposals. Before Greece
could move she must propltiate Bull
garia This could be done by retroced-
ing Kavala. Drama and Sores In re-
| turn the allies offered Smyrna and the
Asiatic littoral from Rhodes to Nifty
lene This offer Nenizelos accepted:
But. King Constantine spoiled the
! plan. Hellenic hatred of Bulgaria was
very intense: the proposal to cede TO
Bulgaria the purely Greek city OF IA
vala the prize of the second Balkan
war. reused instant Greek protest
Venizelos insists the king at hrst
agreed, then backed out The king de-
MED this publicly. Meantime the allied
fleet had tried to force the straits and
failed. This spoiled all chance of
Greek support VenZelos resigned.
| Greece became the creature of German
diplomacy represented by the GoumarIs
ministry, and until the recent election
returned Nenizelos to power Greek
neutrality was assured.
With the return of Nenizelos new
situation has developed. But can the
great Cretan. complete as is his hold
! upon his countrymen, persuade them to
! give over Kavala to the Bulgar? This
may be doubted. Yet unless he can do
i this Greek entrance into the war may
bring Bulgaria in or the other side,
! and this would be disaster, not vic
! tory for the allies. Meantime the en-
! trance of Italy has reduced the re-
! sources of the allies for hasing
Greece. Greece and Italy are rivals in
! the Aegean and along the Adriatic. Pre-
i sumably. Italy would strongly oppose
| the cession to Greece of territory in
! Asia Minor or in southern Albania.
Bulgaria Fixes Price.
| The failure of Venizelos having re-
| moved Greece from the field for the
| moment Bulgaria promptly occupied
| the auction block. She was prepared
| to send her army against the Turks,