Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-25
TEUTON ALLIANCE
NEAR DISRUPTION
Turks and Bulgars, Badly
Beaten, Likely to Reach
Open Rupture
AUSTRIA FACES FAMINE
Germany Defeated in France.
France Truly Calls 1t "Au-
tumn of Vengeance"
AUSTRIA FACES FAMINE

Special Gable to Evening Public Ledger
Copyright, 1878, by Nc,o York Times Co.
{ Parts. Sept. IS.
Paris is well satisfied with the sum-
ming up of the salient features of the
Allied situation as il stands, today. Here
are the outstanding factors: Austria
pleading for peace and confessing that
only enough four is left to last till jan
uary; the Bulgarian armies hopelessly
cut in two and in disorderly retreat:
Turkey disastrously defeated. with the
loss of two of her best armies and the
two of her richest provinces Germany
suffering the accumulated bitterness Of
ten consecutive weeks of continuous de-
feats along the whole extent of what she
regarded as the most i~mpregnable part
of her front at the hands of armies she
believed at her mercy. and looking for
ward with ever-growing terror to the
vengeance for all her crimes that awaits
her at the hands of an American army
stronger than her own. The French have
truly called the present season The
Autumn of Vengeance
In French opinion. the salient feature
of the Bulgarian and Turkish defeats is
the r%esounding blow which they have
struck to German influence and prestige
throughout the whole eastern world. The
Allied victory in Palestine is a fatal
stroke for Liman Won Sanders. the mill
tary counselor imposed by Berlin upon
Ccnstantinople a few years ago 1t is
he who has dictated the whole Turks
military policy both before and since tho
war began, and ii is he and his willing
tools, Enver Pasha and the Young Turk
party. whose fortunes are indissolub;y
bound up with Germany's. who are re-
sponsible for the present staggering de-
feats of the armies of the Porte.
Austria alone is for the moment
spared, but it is confidently felt here
that the heterogeneous empire of the
H~apsburgs will lose nothing of the com
%pleteness of its defeats by waiting. 1t
is not forgotten that Foch has never
overlooked the fact that the Italian front
is in integral part of the strategic
: scheme of the Allied armies. In some
quarters here. therefore, there are strong
hopes that the time is approaching
when the Allied Commander-in-chief will
decide that the moment has come when
Austria. whose internal troubles are be
lieved to be daily rendering her more
nearly ripe for a decisive attack, VII
be dealt with as have been Germany's
still meaner accomplices.
A factor to which increasing atten-
ton is being given here is the probable.
ty of the revival of the centuries-old
~antagonism etwee Bulgaria and hei
former oppressor. Turkey.
Bulgaria has always regarded the last
treaty of Bucharest, which deprived hei
after the IIfnDniDn Ipharla nf this
greater part of what she regarded as
her legitimate spoils and gave it to hei
natural enemy, as a piece of unmitiGateC
treachery on the part of the Sultan's
government. 1t was only by making
the most e~Xtravagant concessions ant
promises to both parties. by all accounts
that Germany succeeded five or 81,
months ago in preventing the two ole
enemies from forgetting their allianc,
with the Central Empires and flying a
each others throats,
The doom of Bulgaria, as Paris see
it. is already sealed. AS regard
Turkey the situation Is more com
plicated. but equally satisfactory 70
the Allies. The disasters in Palestin
point inevitably to the ruin of Enve
and his Young Turk followers. Pari
foresees from now on a bitter con
nict between Envcr and his party o
the one hand and the Sultan and tn
more liberal advisers, with whom h
appears now to have surrounded himself
At the same time the Turks, not con
tent with being on bad terms with tn
Bulgarians, have come TO l~oggerhead
with Russia by tearing up the treat
of Brest-Litovsk. as the present master
OF Russia view it, through their seizur
of Baku and a good deal more o
what hitherto has been Individually Rus
eiao territory.