South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-06
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at Kuei-Amsra. and little earlier Turkish
attempted 70 pass the Suez canal and invade Egypt
Such, briefly, is the story the Balkan episode up
10 the close Of 1916. In three campaigns the Germans
had realized all that they had hoped and planned to
realize they dominated Hungary by alliance;
they had destroyed Serbia and Roumania; they had
har lessed Bulgaria their the
gals BY giving them Roumanian and Serb terri
tories which could only be held with German aid; they
occupy the Kavaa district. while they had persuaded
the Turks TO cede Ferdinand strip territory
racing Adrianope which insured rail communication
Bulgar soil from Sofa Dedea Catch On the Aegean
In this situation it at last became plain
world that if Germany could she has
quired by conquest and alliance in the east
she could continue to hold Serbia dominate Rou-
mania and Bulgaria. well 5 Turkey, after peace
was restored she would jim no long time become the
greatest power in the world her armies would
reach and Egypt The British enopire was threat
ened, the French and Italian in North Africa
we're endangered. the Black had become a German
lake. like the Baltic Moreover the collapse Of RUS
STA and the elimination of the Slav as a great power
removed all curb TO German ambitions on the eastern
flank and added 70 the German conquests in the Bal
kans vast regions of Russia.
NO IMMEDIATE
REMEDY FOR ALLIES
Yet despite this peril visible in 1915 when serbia
fell, unmista Sabe year later, when Roumania
conquered accumulated by the collapse Russia there
was no immediate remedy for the allies who in the
present spring confronted with a life and death
struggle in France actually obliged to recall
men and guns from the Balkans to Paris save
for British Colonial troops operating from the Persian
suI and from Egypt and slowly advancing
salem and Bagdad allied operations were possible
and there relatively minor for Germany could con-
unue TO hold the road from Berlin Horn
she might subsequently send troops and employ
ing the Turk armies remade stiffened by German
contngents. sweep Anenby and Maude's armies of
MesOpotamia and Palestine
The solution OF the problem Is had
ton obvious. There In Turkey and Bull
gara strong opposed to Germany AS the war
dragged on both nations becoming by
WEAKNESS. Turkey had fought Italy the Balkan states
and was now fighting the powers the bur
den OF the three wars utterly unsuccessful
and the third becoming unfavorabe was heavy Bull
CARA had similarly fought turkey, Serbia now
grips with great sacrifices of both
nations had been enormous and German fortunes in
the west began to and the link between Berlin
nople on the other broken both the and
Bulgar might Quit.
But there only one way to break this link and
that was by an operation upward Saloniki
ward and TO the Danube, by successful push
lonih to BELGRADE this in turn was only possible
If the Bugar could be defeated, decsvely
ed, and the carried into Bulgarian TERRITORY AS
long the Bulgar army Bulgaria continued
10 hold Serb and Roumanan territory, well as
Greek, Bulgar government would consent TO make
with the allies, condition such
would necessarily be the surrender OF all con-
Quared territory, Roumania Is IS Greece
then loss OF the territory accompanied BY the
threat invasion itself Bulgaria
might be expected TO make peace gesture, and this
sincere carried promise Of
evacuation Of conquered territory the rehabilitation
OF Bulsar armies and the abandonment of the German
alliance then Bulgaria might be of escapng
from the conflict without loss Of territory pos
sble compensation in Thrace at the expense o
Turkey. In abandoning Uskub and Nsh she might
hope TO gain Adrianople and Midia would
the terrible drain Of the which
liable, and might, given German defeat, prove fatal
BULGARIA REMAINS
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