Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-21
WAR AIMS or ONE OF GERMANY'S
ALLIES STATED az AMsAs-
sApoR TO BERLIN
oAciFicATioN ONLY WHEN
FRONTIERS ARE DETERMINED
assists o. Permitting Turks to Remain
IN Eureee-PropesaI Appears Fair to
Serbia. While curtaiIins Powers Of
Reuranfa, Greece and Other Balkan
S.sseS-

stockholm. Dec sl.-Th-i one Of
- mos, skilled statesmen, DG!tTy
E.Eov, veteran politician. editor, revo-
JQtiaa5st and present Bulgarian minis
e. to Germany, Sulss-ia,s war aims
.aasy were made known IN the follow
;nr clauses. details Of which have
reached SIncAhol-ra:
Clause The paeihcaSon Of the
Balkan peninsula vii! be possible only
i the Balkan states are c-ystali!ze6
nationally. politically sad eoonoIai-
cally. Such capitalization can take
place only when .huse states settle into
their final f-oaaer
gnsiSs Upon Enforcement
fixing those t-nnGs-s mus. be made
On the bass OF the following tuads-
mental principles, namely. that they
he as natural as possible: tia; they
enclose the respective nations together
with their national coasEtut3vs parts;
that they safeguard political indepsod-
eace Ct these nations aad hat they
correspond to their historical .-adi-
lions and do no. conflict With the -iEh.
OF each nation 70 ssltgovs-nnsa:-
Fixing these boundaries csn not he
mathenaGcalty exact Corrections and
compromises are Necessary. Ideal
frontiers are impossible fer contiaen-
tai nations. Il is also Impossible 10
take into consideration the military
results OF the present war. The Sal
10 a "a
basis OF these principles IS bound u
result in the following political from
tires:
Turkish Boundary Unchanged.
Clause Turkey IS 10 retain in
Europe her present frontier with Sul-
garia fixed by the Turko Bulgarian
boundary convention OF Aug, -, 1915.
Clause 'Rounania IS to renounce
formally and irreyocaAly possession o!
the old Dohrudja presented 10 her n
1878 and the new Doorudja seized ny
her II 1913 and to withdraw 10 her Old
frontier behind the Danube.
Wants Long Lost Possessions
CIause lin addition 10 OoorCdta
Bulgaria must reua:te to hersst tha
provinces OF Macedonia AMI NisA -hich
Ike Doorod5A we're torn from her ii:
1878 and distributed 10 her ceighbors
Bulgaria has national. historical and
geographical rights to them, ackrcw!-
edged by those provinces torme.
rulers, by an the great powers and by
nearly all authoritative geogaphers
and travellers in the Balkans.
Would Share saleniki.
Clause Hence Macedonia,s CAPT
tai, Saloniki. her only ha-bor. must
either BE- nsutraIized as a free city o.
become joint possession (coodom.n.
!um) Of Greece and Bulgaria, as during
the interval between the two Balkan
vars Of 1si2-Is1a.
Clause b-Bulgaria must reunite &c
herself the whole Tmok river basin
which Turkey ceded 10 Serbia in 1888
as Bulgarian district and which had
never been before within historical
political or ecclesiastical boundaries
bulgaria must govern this dist-ici
not only because II was formerly Bull
Earia's and now has been taken from
Serbia by ar.s. but because Bulgaria
tnpe1ttTely needs Il economically ii
order to come into territorial contac,
with Hungary.
States Serbia's "Riqhts"
Gause SERBIA must be restored
tn boundaries which Will remain hers
after restoring to Bulgaria the prov.
lnces taken from Bulgaria formerly. but
Serbia VII on the other hand, anne,
al Montenegro, except the Loytcher
mountain and also annex northeastern
Albania namely, the Metochia and Kos
sovpo!je, renowned for it's history ant
fertility. Thus Serbia will obtain hel
natural Adriat;c outlet SO necessary t
her and Two good haroo1a, namely, An.
tivara and Duicigno.
Clause S-hontenegro must be an.
nexed TO Serbia because It purely i:
Serbian country, because the ent;rt
Montenegrin people desires this union
cause Montenegro does not posses.
conditions indisputable for an indie
pendent existence and can hardly exis
as an independent political state ant
because Montenesrins nourish sue
organic hatred toward their dynast,
that were the reunion with Serbia no
,consumatei they would even prefer
Austrian rule 20 restoration of an in
dependent Montenegro under the nika
tas dynasty.
Albania Offers Problem
"Clause 9.-AIbania like all othe
Falkan countries. has the right to al
autonomous political existence, but tn
experiment with her autonomy in 1918
1915 showed she does not possess tn
requisite conditions. She will hav
still less vitality when northeastern AL
bania goes to Serbia, which mus
happen, because otherwise Serbian
Montenegrin union is physically in
possible.
ITO establish Albania as an auton
omous state under Austria or Italy
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