The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-12-09
ORIENT STAKE IN
BALKAN CAMPAIGN
Allies and Germanic Powers
Really Fighting For Domin-
alton of Still UndeveI-
oped Empire.

Paris Special: The Balkan ques-
ton, formerly internal with Macedonia
as the chief stakes and the states
ranged against each other or against
Turkey over this rich bone of conten-
ton, has undergone a chahse
within the past few months.
Some of this Macedonian issue stlll
remains, between Bulgaria and Serbia
but it is almost lost in a far greater
issue, international instead of Internal,
as the two great warning elements IN
Europe have suddenly recognized these
little Balkan states controlled the hlgh
road from northern Europe to the
orient-the link between Germany ana
Austria in the north and that vast
vista of sleeping power in the south
east: Turkey and the Dardaneiles,
Egypt and the Suez canal, Asia MINOR
and the Persian gulf and the overland
route straight from Berlin to the far
east. |
SO that the petty Balkan disputes
which have been going on for years
are now suddenly merged into a greater
international drama, in which the Bal
kans are a mere incident, the supreme
issues now being: |
For the Quadruple Allies-to hold the
Balkan states intact as far as possible,
as q Solid wall or buffer between the
AuslrPl STsInians - "a ~ y n al,, @i tba
Imperial goaS9a SiS .94Wii aos+
For Austro-G ermany-To divide the
| Balkans as much as possible, state
agalnsI stace, WIN d AZ Us
state, laSoranie ! Wy rsan
tro-Ger1lahs ann % ateG oatent
Germany 70 turkey aIq tus piie"'
, An international Game.
mis- ssjft Of the Balkan issue, max
;ng II mart Of ! great International
na3,a instesa of a Detty struggle of
small states, has come abSut within the
iast COW Ynonths The allied pSNers
rusre slow in rea1izing II and their ne
So+io +;n,s NTH Bniaa, ria and Serbia M
fo q recant data treated the question as
INC old fieht over territory i'm Mace
donia R13f ali the time was
sa4tin. tba scenes in she larger drama
me Winilihg o. gatra si 70 IT Tnrhav
ana anS tha near east
T.nh nf tho Balkan states has a
nnmbar of issues involved in the new
has been gathered from official and
dinlonnatic Bulgar-
i iap Grani.n oua umanianRand from
other avaiIahla oTarters- showing the
respective viewpoints about as follows:
bulgaria considers herself the ag-
erieve1 nartv Of the Balkans. She
Claims 70 have done most Of the light
ing against Turkey over Macedonia,
and to have receiyed the least of the
reu,.rd the h,1lk going to Serbia and
creece which B1ilsaria claims. did not
do the hard fiphting The Bulgarian
legation furnished the Associated Press
with a namnhlet review of it's case,
showing the Following distribution Of
tbe territorv taken from Turkey:
Serbia, with hes smallest territory be-
fore the war. received $4,000 square
ki1ometers Of which ii. 900 were fertile,
and added 1000 600 to her population.
Greece newt smallest in area and
ponnlation- gained ia. 900 square kilo-
1natars IF which 5000 were fertile,
and added 4 6o0 non to her population.
RuIearia the largest in area and
nonn1stion received only is 900 square
Lilomefers Of which none were fertile.
and added on1W 4o0. 900. to it's popula-
flor, - Then follows this explosive Of
fetal statement.
as his possible? Yes! And because
of 4. this 10 what BULGARIA. demands:
HShe is NOT satisfied with such a diy;-
sion. she dernsnds a new one: she
shuts her ears 70 nronosaIs Of a Balkan
union n Which She pavs all the ex-
nansan
pereec,,+;on Charmed.
p,1,.,s,n has iss,,ad .no1bar n.ro,h
le+ nr;n+sd Of the roSa1 n,intine astsh-
I ishInant a+ SEE. sn+itIad .sIous TIC
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nr;aS+s 20 az pn1r.n TO- sta+a aS,rah
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