The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-30


 ,hr figure os ,hc Crown Prince. Franz Fcrdnand stood
 oaa what taa domination of Vienna by Berlin would mean The h.sauoaty of inc German -atrs which Ans ria had been forced surrender a result ot the Seven Weeks War. would. he saw. become something r.r. ,r- b.r.rr,n, and \us-rfa ro,bfng loss tr.n r. FroNEHg. in the German confederation. Ills naton oeIajeyo, therefore, Was an event which played The hands of the German party. with the influence. 'he fate ot AusraIlunga} passed nto Count Tsza's hands The results of these ntrieues, rhe President termed them in his note is seen h the fact hat today Austria has been reduced completely o the pos ion of German province.
 Between tAa borders of Aa~ra and the frontiers of Tugky there lay. however that curious collection of Slay states known tho Balkan powers Thore Of course the influence Petersburg supreme. lin Sr Petersburg there ruled monarch just as deter uIned d triumph SIayontum as the Kaiser the triumph pedtschrim. Roimanla, rue. govern ed by German pr.nce and Roumania Was no Slay but Ruumania had always cast longing the Transy yanian plains, peoped largely by ot her blood always anxious 10 be reunited with her Still Roumana wa, then under control Austria and might continued had King to reign in Bu. clar,-r who Was not so familiar as his father with Joseph The game therefore, had be played Sofia, i.ra bar,rdan r1, BnIear and The SIay The throne of occupied by d Sery, and the interests of Slayentm were consequently. safe in Belgrade. But Seyia had always been the spolt child of Russia and Now it be recognized that there is pre- tense of freedom in Balkan country. Whatever the King is. that. a word, is the country When, there fore the Ambassador. Count Tarnowski, play ing brilliant political game such play is considered
 
 Iof the German Prince on the throne of Bulgaria. and in stirring the passions of the Bulgarian peasants, al ready the loss of the territorial spells of the first Bakan war, lhe support of Bulgaria was definitely secured the Central powers It is true that Greece and Seryia who had wrenched these spols from Bull gara had secured themselves against Bulsa ian attack by treaty H4h Roumania. Both Roumania and SerNia were 1c, however, that they had calculated without their host The King of Greece. though by descent Dane was the brothornIaw of the Kaiser and so it came about that the critical moment of the in semia, King Constantine refused to fulfil his treaty obligations. and Hung SeRa to the mercy of Austria and Bulgaria. Before, however, the attack Servia could safely made, the quarrel between Bulgaria and Turkey had to be adjusted. Bulgaria who had been tortured and rnsa.ed by Turkey for cenuri and who had been rescued by Russia had to be induced to This betrayal duly accomplished. And thus buiIt up the nucleus of MttelEuropa.
 The pistol shot in Serajeyo which remoy d the last obstacle the German domination of AustIj IjaIImgary, gave also the and opportunity for the ultmatum followed everybody knows. The first rush of invasion took the German armies. in spite of the scrap of paper, long been frankly toreshadowcd by such writers Gen eral Benhardi who had hesated to insist that would violate the neutrality of the nation their was pledged protect Still nominally Germany Ito have withdrawn from Belgium after the war. In reality it Was never intended that the evacuation should take place. Antwerp and Bruges were as important links the Mrtcl-Europa plan Constant inople and l}aedad As a consequence Germany had no intention whatever of retiring from Belgium unless 1t were at the point of the bayonet With Belgium secured, Holland and Denmark would unque. ona6y have been the next mark, just SchlesWgII Iostein and As&ceI lorraine had been the mark of the Seven Days and the Seven Months War All that however, to have been only the beginning Of dream world empire extending to the West Indies and South America, and in the carrying of which the Danish West Ind have served the key to Panama.
 This however, of the future For the has be remembered that Germany holds Austria, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire in the hollow of her hand. Her schemes have gone aWry, her calculations have proved incorrect but still with hand firmly casped on an enormous empire stretching from Will helmshayen the North Sea, and Hamburg, the Baltic, between the frontiers France Russia, across the AusroIIungaran empire, the Balkans, through Bulgaria the Bosphorus, and bayond that along the line of the railway Bagdad, she could cessfully welcome return to the status ante. The would have ryeed her hold, economically and phy scally, the whole of that country, and though nominaly only the German Empire of the status quo beum, attached merely by alliances the under her control she would really be completely master of these countries, and could work to build up military and commercial system than before, system which would compel he of Europe and the Americas become huge camp, waiting the day when the struggle would be renewed with chances of victory than today That why MT. Wilson declares that democracy must submit conquer and that is why he insists that turn to the status quo ante is impossible.
 JUST THINKING LOUDLY.