Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-10

there Is no certainty that Italy does
not expect to take Ffume also, the only
other considerable commercial city OF
the Adriatic and Hungary's unique sea-
port.
Serbia to Gain FL 600 Square Miles.
Proportionately, Serbia's gains will
be greater Bosnia. Dalmatia. the fracs
ton that falls to her share, the por-
ton of Slavonia, have an area Of $1,000
square miles, materially more than that
of Serbia before the first Balkan war.
Acquiring them, Serbia will at last
gain her window on the sea, denied her
through Austrian interference after her
Balkan victories.
But Serbia has other hopes. Monte
negro. also a Serb land. will unquestion-
ably be Joined to Serbia, together with
the northern tip of Albania, containing
Scutari.
All told, Serbia hopes and expects to
gain 10000 square miles, $4,000 coming
from Austria, and, save for a few Alba
MANS about Scutari. the people Of these
regions are all Serb by race.
What Will Fall to Rumania.
Even greater are Ruinanian ambitions.
Before she entered the second Balkan
war Rumania was nation Of 1000, 900
and her area was nearly $4,000 square
York state. The Balkan war gave her
5000 square miles and 100000 people
taken from Bulgaria.
If she gets her prize in the Austrian
campaign she will get over $4,000 square
miles and become kingdam with an
area equal to that of the mainland OF
Italy. Her total population will be close
00O II
new citizens will be Rumanian by race.
In Pennsylvania, too, she will acquire
the coal mines necessary to her industrial
expansion. Shaped now like a crescent
moon, Rumania will then become a solid
block. no longer threatened with dissection
by any attack coming from Austria.
Sentimentally, Pennsylvania has always
exercised great influence upon Ru-
Of many of the most famous of the nem-
bers OF the Rumanian race, just as Bos-
mia is really more potent than Serbia it
self in the cultural history Of the Serb
race.
Rich Prize for Russia.
The real prize will naturally fall to
Russia. Galicia is one of the richest
agricultural lands in all Europe and
it's oil wells are unsurpassed on the
continent. By bringing her frontiers
to the Carpathians Russia will abolish
the open frontier that has so long
weakened her position on the west
and has proved SO disastrous in the
campaigns of the present war. Lem
berg. the capital of Galicia, is city of
nearly 100000, the fourth In the Aus
trian Empire, and one of the great
railroad centers of Europe.
Some portion Of Ga1tcia Russia in
tends to add to her Polish kingdom.
proba bly, all west of the San. In doing
this Russia will restore $4,000, 900 Poles
to their old association with Warsaw,
and If there be an autonomous Poland.
under Russian protection, 1t will con-
tain at least 100000 Of the 20,000.000,
the balance remaining in the eastern
lands of Prussia.
Such. briefly, is the partition Of Aus
triaHungary. 1t has been roundly de-
nounced by all German and Austrian
newspapers and writers as a wicked
and immoral ambition on the part of
the nations which plan It, Yet it Is not
to be compared with the Austrian par
ticipation in the partitions of Poland.
In dismembering Poland. Austria,
Germany and Russia divided among
themselves the millions of Poles. who
had no deeper desire than to continue
a Polish nation. And after a century
and half the Polish purpose and hope
have survived and become anew a
problem for Europe.
Austrian Rule Hated.
But there is no Austrian race. The
Rumanians. who make up the major
portion OF the population of Transyl-
vania, have had to submit to every
kind Of stupid and vicious regulation
upon them by their Hungarian
masters.
The Italians in Trieste have seen the
full weight of Austrian influence di-
rected to Transforming Trieste into a
Slav town by colonies of Slovenes in
vited down from the hills and favored
by Austrians' laws and ordinances. The