Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-22

and this would mean the prompt end
ing of the Dardanelles deadlock. if the
allies would persuade Serbia to surren-
der Macedonia. Bulgar title to this
was clear, if the desire of the inhab1t-
ants and questions of language and
race were to be considered. If in addi-
ton she could be assured that Ruma-
mia would give back Slistria and that
her claims to kavala be weighed in the
grand Encouragement following the
war, Bulgaria was ready to take up the
old road to the Chatalja.
But now Serbia baked. She had made
wonderful fight, twice routed Austrian
armies, suffered from attic and from
tvphus fever. To please Italy she had
given over her claim to Dalmatia north
of the Narenta. To please Rumania she
had been prepared to make sacrifices
in Temesvar To satisfy Italy further,
she had agreed to abide by the decision
of the powers as to northern Albania
BY what right could they now ask her
to surrender Macedonia, conquered in
1912, now the sole avenue open to her
to draw supplies from the outside
world?
To this the allies replied by appeals
and warnings. while the cannon of Ger
many gave new warnings on the
Danube frontier. When these lines are
written the Serbian parliament is meet
ing to consider the question as to
whether it will make the all important
sa crifice to Bulgaria.
But Bulgaria. like Rumana, was also
ne gotiating with the other side. From
the Turk she demanded Adrianople and
the part Of Thrace assured her by the
agreement of London-that is, the
!, region north of the Enos- Midia line. as
the price of her neutrality. The Turk
has replied by vague offers of railway
concessions west of Adrianople, mere
trackage rights, to let Bulgaria reach
her port of Dedeagatch. This. too. is
unsa tisfa Glory. Finally Germany is
endeavoring by ioans to keep Bulgaria
neutral and finds d pow erful ally in the
car Ferdinand. who was born petty
Austrian prince.
Points Of Difficulty.
Summa rizinG briefly. it viii be seen
that the following difficulties face the
allied statesmen. who are trying to
restore the old Balkan alliance and
enlist the Balkan states against the
Turk and the Teuton. Rumania, hav-
ing once been betrayed by Russia,
hesilates to accept Russian promises
and presses claims to Slavinhabited
regions in Bukovna and TemesVar: in
the latter province she claims the very
hills that face the Serbian capital
Serbian concessions to Bulgaria are
halted by the claims of Italy on Serb
inhabited lands in Dalmatia. and by
the determination of Rome to preserve
Albania intact, and thus make il an
Italian protectorate after the war
Greece is reluctant to cede lands in
habited by Greeks to Bulgaria. She is
angered by Italian pretensions to
southern Albania, which is Inhabited
by an albanian population closely af-
filiated with the Greeks in religion, by
the Italian occupa ton Of Rhodes and
the Dodecanesus. which are by history
and by the tongue and tradition of
their people Hellenic. She is doubt
full of the allied power to give smyrna
as q compensation for kavala.
Bulgaria makes her entrance into the
war conditional on the cessions of
Greek, Serbian and Rumanian terri
tory, which the allies cannot compel.
and have so far been unable to per-
suade the present owners to make.
Finally. Germany profits very greatly
by the fact that the rulers of Ru-
mania Greece and Bulgaria are either
Austro-German by derivation or re-
lated to the German monarch by mar
rage.
Common Peril and Profit.
On the other hand. the real point of
advantage of the allies is discovera BILE
in the fact that Austrian success con-
stitutes a common danger for all the
Balkan states Only if Austria is de-
feated can Rumania hope to obtain
Bukovina, Pennsylvania and Temesvar.
If Austria destroys Serbia Bulgaria will
be placed between new Austrian
province descending to the Aegean at
Saloniki and the Austro-German ally
Turkey Macedonia will be permanent
ly lost, and with it all hope of regain
ing Adrianople.
Greece must face the peril of an Aus
trian seizure of Saloniki. She must also