The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-02
AFTER BuLcARIA,s DOWNFALL.


Bulgara's collapse opens the way to changes in the
course of the war which make it much shorter and
will surely facilitate the utter defeat of Germany The
enemy alliance is now broken That is fact of i'm
Importance for it that MitteleurOpa the
scheme of a German empire reaching from the Baltic
be the fate of Roumana AustriaHungary and Germany
it is evident that Germany cannot now save Turkey.
Nothing will bridge the abyss that the allies have
blasted between Germany and Turkey.
Bugaria's fate depends upon its good faith toward
the entente. Probably Bulgaria will observe good faith
since it would be suicidal to do anything else The Ger
military rulers will make every effort to take over
Bulgaria, and failing that they will try to build wall
along the Serbian and Dobruda fronts keep the allies
back No doubt Field Marshal Won Mackensen is now
planning campaign to hold Sofia and punish the Bull
gars for deserving NE central alliance If the allies are
prompt and decisive they ought to be- they will
bring to naught all of Germany's plans and will drive
home the wedge they now hold in the Balkans
Whether the Salonki forces will be turned toward
Tchatadja, in operation against Constantnople
Germans will be disclosed soon. 1t would seem at this
distance that operation against Constantinople would
be the better strategy since it would soon put Turkey
out Of commission open the Black Sea to the allies in
the of Russia and enable the allies to concen-
trate for final crushing offensive against Budapest
ment while the other operation would have to depend
wholly upon the poor roads of Bulgaria and Serbia with
Turkey standing enemy in the rear
If the allied forces should turn against Constantnope
Mackensen might endeavor to attack them on the flank
somewhere in Bulgaria. But he would be badly handi-
capped by the poor communications and by the necessity
of keeping the lid upon Roumania which is now bub-
bling with intense anti-Geman agitation Mackensen
would find himself with an enemy in front and behind
him. and with possible concentration of hostile forces
somewhere his flank, by of allied naval opera
tons in the Black Sea. In the meantime, Turkey as
Saulted in force from Thrace, Asia Minor and Meso-
potamia and cut off from Germany would be compelled
to surrender
The SCATTERING of Turkey to be the next logical
for the entente forces in the Balkans Of course
the Serbans anxious to recover their territory and
they would not have much heart in turning to the right
to pursue the Turks Perhaps they will be asked to
drive straight forward into their own land to keep the
Austrans the move and eventually to take Nish and
Belgrade. The Serbs and the Italians who are doing
such splendid work in Albania and Macedonia seem to
be able to polish off the dspirted and demoralized Aus
TRANS.
The position of Roumania and Russia is to be consd-
ered Both of those countries are the victims of paper
peace made in Germany" and therefore like every
thing else made in Germany treacherous and fraudulent
The treaty of BrestLitovsk with its supplements and
the treaty of Buftea, or Bucharest are examples of
perfdy which will stand for all time as advertisements
of Germanys dshonor The allies in duty bound to
extrcate Roumania and Russia. They are doing this
already regards Russia but they have been unable to
aid Roumania. The Bulgarian debace now affords an
opportunity for the of Roumana through the
Black Sea and the Danube For this reason among
Others the allies should demoish Turkey as soon as pos
sble and open the Dardaneles and the Black Sea-
The terms of the armstce with Bulgaria are not yet
published but it goes without saying that they include
the evacuation of territory owned by the allies such
as Serbian Macedonia, the Dobrudja and Seres Drama
and Kavaa, which the possession of Greece Thus
all the efforts Of Germany in its ferocious attacks upon
Roumana and Serbia will be brought to nothing, and
Bulgaras attempt to rob her neghbors will meet the
retrbution it deserves AS for Austria Hungary and
Turkey the remaining members of the outlaw alliance
their days numbered by the defeat of Bulgaria.
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