The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-15

everything and everybody, including the
situation which just now IL no delicate.
lie said the Government was merely
putting of the evil day when 1t would
be compelled to answer. lie urged that
the new developments In the Balkans
gave the Government an opportunity OF
getting out of the unfortunate venture
at the Dardanelles with proper dignity.
One searched in vain through the care
fully chosen words Of Sir Edward Grey
i'm his speech before the Commons for
even a suggestion OF assurance that
the Balkan menace is to be dealt with
vigorously. 1t was impossible to gather
that a definite policy Of action has been
determined on.
SERBIA laid the Foreign Secretary,
"is now meeting the new crisis with
splendid courage" cooperation by the
Russian troops has been promised as
soon as they are available" "The Allies
are acting in the closest consulta-
tion," &c.
There were few sentences from which
one might draw the inference that some
thing. no matter what. IL to be done soon.
At one point. while speaking OF Greece
and Serbia. Sir Edward Grey said 1t 10
obvious that the interests OF these two
countries are one in the long run. and
tina they must stand or fall together.
From this 1t would appear that the Gov
eminent does not expect a hostile atti-
tude to he shown by Greece.
Rumnnia L. Friendly.
The present relations of Great Britain
with Rumania at least are friendly. This
the Foreign Secretary asserted posi-
lively. That country. he said. 10 avor-
able to "A policy which will promote
agreement between her %neighbors and
has revealed "a readiness TO promote the
same policy which the Allies have pur-
sued.
In opening his address Sir Edward
Grey said he did not propose TO touch
upon recent criticism of his diplomatic
policy. hut would confine himself to the
object of that policy in the Near East.
lie then proceeded to review In outline
the history OF events In the Balkan
peninsula since the opening of the war.
II Turkey had remained neutral. ne
said. the Allies would have seen that
Turkey and Turkish territory should not
suffer at the close of hostillties. The
Allies had been ready to do all in their
power to obtain concessions for Bull
garia. Blu the essential preliminary TO
any such course was. he said, n Bull
garian alliance with the Entente
Powers. Now that Bulgaria has de-
clared herself on the sid OF the Germans
II Is too much, he said, to ask the
Allies to believe that Bulgaria was in
duced to enter the war without promises
of ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The Foreign Secretary told his
auditors that whatever action is decided
upon will be basel on the ''soundest
strategy" The struggle for all. he
said, Is the right to live without being
under the shadow of Prussian militarism.
which will not observe the ordinary rules
OF humanity in war or leave others free
from the menace OF oppression.
Division In Balkans.
In explanation OF the Balkan
psychology he said that at the begin
ming Of the war the feeling there had
been one of division. Encouraging dis
s~ens!on, he went on, is easier than
securing a policy of union. 1t was on
the principle of dissension that the Gov
ernments and sovereigns of Germany.
Austria and Bulgaria had worked and
they had won.
There was one revelation, one. how
ever, which has been limited at before,
in Sir Edwards address. 1t was that
with the exception of territory In Thrace
the Central Powers had offered more to
Bulgaria than the Allies had felt that
they could In fairness to the other Bal
kan States oner on their side.
At the outset of the war, he said. the
Governments of the Entente had desired
TO prevent the war from spreading In the
Balkans, lest the assumption of arms by
another Balkan state should bring the
rest in it's wake. For "A time Turkey
had resisted the German pressure, blu
when Turkish ships were forced by Ger
man officers to fire on Russian vessels
all obligation on the part of the Allies
toward Turkey ended.
II was announced in the House of
Commons that the total British casual
ties at the Dardanelles up To October 3
had been 90, 500. of these, 29,l2l were
Australians.