Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-13
TO ENTER
WAR ON ALLIES SIDE
BY MIDDLE OF MAY
Bulgaria ReporteN Ready
to Cast Lot in With Ru-
mania-Italy Has Secret
Pact Bulgars to Get
Adrianople.

NIsH, servia, April 1s-TIy the middle
Of May all the Balkan States may again
be plunged in war for the third time
IN less than four years.
This Information was obtained from
some OF the leading authorities of servia
and Greece. Greece. Bulgaria and Ru-
mania as well as Italy. they hold must
be Inevitably drawn into the conflict II
II continues much longer With equal
certitnde they declare that all four coun-
trfes win enter on the side OF the Allies.
A decisive victory for the Russians in the
nrerent Carpathian fighting may set the
BAN rolling.
The Balkan States have two ends they
feel they must at some time attain. One
y the expulsion for all time of the Turks
from Europe and the division among
themselves of what remains of European
Turkey The other Is to wrest from
Austria the provinces of Bukowina and
Transylvania.
Rumania and Italy, according to reports
IN diplomatic circles here, will enter the
war simultaneously For six months n
secret agreement to that effect is said
to have existed between the two coun-
tries Rumana's ambitions to take over
Bukowina and Transylvania, peopled by
men of her own race are seid to be
equally as strong as Italys ambitions for
control of 1stria and Trent
BULGARIA SHIFTS POSITION.
Until a month ago Bulgarias position
and intentions were uncertain. On the
whole, she was considered as being more
favorable to Germany than the Allies.
But her eyes since the last Balkan war
have been on the strip of Turkish terri
tory, including the city of Adrianople,
The report here Is that Bulgaria a month
ago was assured that the Allies intend to
carry the operations against the Oar
danelles to a successful conclusion at
any cost. Bulgaria then made tenta-
tive agreement according to reports cur
rent here, to send forces in Turkey to
aid in the capture of Constantinople
The entrance of Bulgaria into the scene
Of action will remove the principal bar
rier that halted Greece Greece Is allied
with Servia and Rumania in n treaty to
maintain the territorial divisions made by
the treaty OF Bucharest at the close of
]. second war. This division has never
MIrsn satisfactory to Bulgaria. and it was
he fear that Bulgaria would attack
Greece that kept King Constantine out of
the war several weeks ago at the time
when the resignation of the Venizelos
Cabinet brought public attention to the
crisis in affairs at Athens
Greece has large colonies in Asiatic
Turkey, especially at Smyrna. In addi-
tion number of islands of the Aeglan
Sea are filled largely with Greek colonists,
Centuries ago not only these colonies.
but the Aegian coast of Asia Minor were
part of Greece and the restoration of
these to the mother country is one of the
Greek statesmen's ambitions.
RULERS OPPOSE WAR.
This is the political aspect In the
Balkans as It has been outlined There
is an interesting and almost as important
a personal side. Three Balkan rulers,
those monarchs of Greece, Bulgaria and
Rumania, are dynastcally allied to the
families of the Austria German block
The wife of King Constantine of Greece
is sister of the Kaiser, and the Creek
King himself is known to have pro-
German sympathes,
King Ferdinand of Rumania is Ger
man and n Hohenzolern. His wife is
German Princess, Gear Ferdinand OF
Bulgaria is likewise of German blood. He
belongs to the house of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha and is also Hungarian nobleman
with vast estates In the dual monarchy
His wife 10 German.
Where history is full of instances where
rulers have forced unwilling subjects into
war the present Balkan situation prom
tses the reverse. The subjects-if the
statesmen represent the will of the peo-
ple-rnay force unwilling rulers into war