Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
Serbia Makes Appeal
to the World for
Help and Sympathy
fchabe Leader OF Gallant Nation Needs and How
America Can DO Much TO Restore Prosperity to
Stricken Country.
N EDWARD MARSHALL.


tory for his little wonder-country's
hlgh'in> nen had occurred since las.
nad "a the opportunity TO talk
h math ~, ~ : Itch, the venerable Ser
ten on us 3, ,5naii. aged FAC. AZ he
ha, !" The srsa" room a9I told whl,
n,ISt be done 70 bring tne splendid
force bu, never could be conuuered.
nsain INTO sight aud sound OF happi-
mas ana OIL prosperity.
hope for "a new Serbia" said the
serbia 'I en,re 9'S 9r.ad ~ hope FOX !,
vpprcssion: 81 Serbia restored 10 that
n9sition which is rightly hers; a Serbia
nrnnn may ghiher all the scattered
ION has been broIeE; a Serbia where
IN serbs may live az viii the peoples
IN nan me , greater nations of the allies:
working out their own selected
n,Ses,iny in their own way we ask bur
'ha! Is II too much TO ask"
We have striven toward this cu.,
Tor centuries. Having been liberated
rom five centuries IF Turkish Cypress
his his wars ou,Gr,aE. had begun to be n;
ions uSe i' A a 'hs Ss Tsn! p fd
century: Serira ,had i,een a thorn in
AIstria.s side because sh. offered
vino emisratcd ont az Austria whern
ihcy were habitually dcnie, Their.
rights and justice.
THIS emigration by rendering justice
20 INC serbs. 20 method except war
for long they hesi,ated before war.
o ,nn,.i tne presenG" in.tf,eir midst OF the
n rneni'a6 ply restless southern STAY Gle
toward her. inquest ionabIy was 4,
threat Would they no, try TO hr.:,i;
tHe AUSTRIAN mpife-that sham union
o! discordan, elements which. bv
Eic!ous intrigue and unworthy use of
mi
irian dynastics? Austria feared III.
separation Of tho Serbs from her ana
Of cards.
Su9pose. for just =. moment. u very
s 40 i,i1s situation. SO tina, may make
states were Austria and that Illinois
We're serbia OF course. Serbs wouiti
be -; thick beyond the border Of their
ILLINOIS, and throughout America there
would be many. Well. their immisrn-
,,nn toward their brethren there in
iiihois would threaten all the resi- OF
me misEoverned country would il NOT?
would threaten il through the with
tG iitfes 'adHssry W and mi,'"r
would threaten il by STRENGTHENING
me ii!inois (Which. OF necessity would
.hey would he going Such si:ua
Uon WAS exactly that which Austria
would have been clear TO another "ov.
ernment-that OF satisfying serbs hv
Granung tice-iid not occur to her
n
,cring her mind
FREE SERHA WAS
PERIL TO AISrRI.
Free Serbia. therefore. was "a peril
70 me HapSburgs; WHO would have
could have done il. For a good nany
Years serbia was the only free state
IN the Balkins. for Bulgaria was not
AUSTRIA and anGered her. Always she
gained to Europe as a whole that
N Heaon ,ireea"m ENDANGERED Enrope's
heace~the GENERAL neace-with the
hone that by expressing these views
with sufficient strength she might OH
IAN the opportunity to occupy the ma :
ton and thus gain the chance TO push
forward her own boundaries s:raish,
10 Consta inopl"
Fast Fast The real I rsason Of Austrian
serbia was this. and i; had maintained
~ SECOND contributing cause was
cd Austrian ariStocratic impulses The
Austrians are people crouchin- be-
r rG5f m ISn les social political. Gnan
unaiterahly sturdy indepcntience. meas.
arts ans, on se rr equality. without
were happy Their prospcritv th nJE
happinsss appealed to all of the OBJ
pressed in austria. They were on OH
the Austrian border Serbia was
small In size but big in spirit Austria
One sees which was The better ro,intrv
for the average citizen. Austria's en-
nifty to Serbia was the enmity Of
Have I made it clear that in Tho
circumstances which had been main
Iiained Tor century. the Serbs had
heen In perpetual anxiety Lest
Austria should try, to swallow their
hoiov1d country? That was the case:
ana western Eurone was too busy to
ri
existing in the very shadow OF tho
sren1 antocracv. Il could only be h.
that Serbia could Show the baloncc 'o "f
the world her peril and it's world
siG;niicance could show the world how c%
eN'i was the Austrian political mind
as soon as Austria was obviously
h"itSn Blu eT the allies she began 10 take
save her face before the vicfor nus
allies. The nlan which She suge .1Hs
and which Will find supporters. I in
u not really understand the situafinn !.
embodied In her statement: 'Ah. YES
to our surprise we find that things
We regret II. TO correct il We shayii
create sronp. of Southern slavic
S ,HI,ri, out OF the Serbian states i,
THE world must not be fooled. by
ut VIII be as 1t would be ,n.,bo w..
Imaginable circumstances haJse u s15
for ILLUSTRATION with regard,1tto. The
United states: p -
Yes. we. will leave Illinois a FREQ
State; but all around her We shall build
bulwark of minor states, i'm whir,,
we shall concentrate those Illinn;cl
ans outside of Illinois. under our snv-
ereignty. They will be under our had
ever into believing that we give then,
independence.
!, AMERICA MUST NOT
BE FOOLED BY OTHERS
The aim Is to deceive. and already
signs are plain that some have bceI
deceived by the suggestion. have
noted them in editorials in European
newspapers, ! have noted them I'm CON
versations with some -fnen-uf -rrrt I'm ::
portance. II is of great moment that
they should not fool America.
"The Southern Slavs know Austria
They know that when the peace is
made Austria must dictate none OF Il
Thc Austrian government is capabIc
of honesty ShS is intensely anxious,
now that her military failure is com
pIete. to save her skin by strntegv
Many times she has promised great