Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-01-09
L~zqu1dafing MHfezelzropa; the New Map;
Recent Events Tell Why Hun Began War.

J~ugo-Slavia. My impression is tina,
mere IS no conflict between the Slavs
ana the Rumanians over the Banat
'hef respective spheres having beer
agreed. upon but there is the violen
Opposition OF the Hungarians, who have
hela Ienlesvar for several centuries
ana rest their claim upon possession,
not upon Standardization.
Greater Serbia.
Side by side with the Greater Hu-
mama has risen a Greater Serbia.
caiied JuSo-Slavia by contemporary
historians. This new state consists of
lhfee branches of the southern Slav
family; the Serbs, who are in a large
majority: the Croats, and the %sSloven-
ians. The progress in achieving unity
mas peer q little less simple than the
Rumanial because of this diversity in
tribes and because of certain religious
differences. But Just at the Rumania
or l9l4 has been the central factor in
Greater Rumania. the Serbia of the
days before the war has supplied the
center of attraction for the Slav re-
union.
At the present hour this process has
reached the following point: The ma
tional assembly of the Slovenes, meet
ing ut Laihach. in C%arinola; of the
Croats. meeting at Agram (Zagreb); of
the Bosnian Serbs. at Serajevo; of the
M-ontenegrins. at Cettinje; of the Serbs
of the old lnonarchy-all have signified
their desire for amalgamation under
the leadership of the Serb crown. and
have summoned an assembly represent
ing all the elements to meet al Sera-
jevo and organize a new nation.
In area this new state will be but
little smaller thai the new Rumania.
1t will certainly include all of the Aus
trian province of Carniola, certain por-
tions of Carinthia and Styria south of
the Draw River, Hungarian Crotia and
Slavonia. Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro and Serbia and most, II
not all, of the Austrian province of
Dalmatia. which is now claimed by
both the Slavs and the Italians. In adj
dition. the Serbs claim. with justice, a
certain portion of the Hungarian prov
ince of Temesvar. In sum. the new
southern Slav state will have an area
of approximately 10000 square miles
and u population of not less than H.
900, 1000. This another new state equal
in size to the mainland of Italy.
In addition. the Slavs urge their
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the Adriatic, including Trieste, Gorilla
and Istria, in which, save on the coast,
there is a Slav majority in the popula-
ton.
Hungary Shrinking.
Having lost Croatia and Slavonia to
the Jugo-Slavs, Transatlantic to the
and Rumanians. together with the Slo-
yak districts ct tho month v,hiol, ora
already being occupied by Czecho-Slo-
yak troops. Hungary. which was four
years ago larger than Italy. will shrink
to some 10000 square miles. a third
smaller than either Rumania or Jugo-
Slavia. Its population, which exceeded
q 5000. 900 in 1914. will hardly exceed
1000. but it will be in large part Mag
var; the old evils will disappear, and
Hungary, too. in losing her subject
races will achieve national unity.
1t would be idle to suppose that the
new condition will be pleasing to the
Magyars. Having been equal partners.
not infrequently the dominating part
ners, in the dual monarchy, they will
become nothing more than one of the
minor states of southeastern Europe,
weaker than either the Serbs or the
Rumanians, whom they have coerced
for centuries. No less serious will be
their economic situation, for they will
have no direct outlet On the sea and
the Danube will be in the hands of
their hereditary enemy.
Yet no other solution is conceivable.
A Hungarian minority has ruled Slavs
and Rumanians alike with stupidity
and brutality for centuries. failing ut
terly to absorb the alien elements and
in the end the Slavs and Rumanians
have found their own unity. Occupy
ing rich and fertile lands. the Hungar-
ians will certainly be a prosperous ma
ton in the future. but their great per-
loo seems definitely over. AS Spain
was surpassed by France and Italy.
Hungary a been distanced by Ru-
mania and Serbia, probably for all
time hereafter.
The czecho- slovaks.
C%oincident with the expansion of the
Serb and Rumanian states and the
birth of a new nation, that Of the
Czecho- Slovaks. In a certain sense
this is a renaissance. for there was a
and its fall was the opening act in the
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turtles the Czechs have kept alive the
memories Of former greatness, and now
they are erecting a new tat in the
very heart o. Europe. a sort of Slav
Switzerland. which is almost an island
In the sea OF German tribes.
The new CZecho- Slovakia, which il a
geographical fact and a political reality,
includes the Austrian provinces of Boz
tarrio Cjlooio md Morayio with on
area of about 10000 square miles and
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