Evening star., 1927-10-16
MACEDONIA FEELS
1ERR0R|STS POWER
Revolutionary Group Active
in Balkan CriSis-Serb
General Slain.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.
By Radio to The star.

By Radio to The Star.
BERLIN, October 15.-Whether Lei
Erikson. the Viking chief. really dis
covered America 500 years before Co
lumbus and called the now dry con
tinent "Wineand" is-although diff
ticult question-more easily solved
than the still older one concerning
the nationality of the inhabitants OF
Macedonia.
Are they Greek descendants. SIavs
or bastard Mongolians? They call the
Greeks, Serbs. Bulgarians and Wal
lachs "brothers. but dispute each
others right to rule over the fertile
territory-rich also in subterranean
treasure-which is watered by the
Rivers Wistricia. Vruma and Wardar.
Too often blood has colored these
waters. At least once a year an at
tempt was made to throw off the Turk.
ish yoke.
Macedonia Divided.
After the Balkan wars. the Bucha-
rest treaty in 1913 divided Macedonia
between the Greeks, the Serbs and the
Bulgars. After the World War, the
lions share fell to Serbia.
The Macedonia revolutionary or
sanitation" survived all these changes
MS n terrible survival of the cruel
pashas and boastful effendi. They
work with terrorism.
According to their own statement.
they want to frighten the ruling
foreigners into cessation of ill.treat.
ment of the natives. They also want
TO remind Europe that the Macedonian
problem is not yet solved. But here,
as everywhere, fanatical nationalists
have Joined with adventurers and
sarir s,af~ 1a~
taken lessons from Bolshevists and
Fascists, and generally when a Jugo-
slav-Bulgarian understanding seems
near, the terrorism of the "komitad.
jis'' becomes particularly active.
The Bulgarian premier, Stambulsky
who wanted to sacrifice the Coburg
dynasty and join his country as a
fourth member of the Jugoslav king.
dom of Croats. Serbs and Slovenes-
was murdered. When the Serbian
foreign minister, Marinkovitsch, be.
gan negotiations for an agreement
with the Jugoslav foreign minister,
threatened in their secret tyranny
burst out into series Of outrages.
Bombers Are Active.
Bombs destroyed railways and pub.
lie buildings. Gen. Kovatchevitch,
the bravest and most popular officer
in the Jugoslav army. was assassi.
mated. The komitadjis were encour-
aged by the general unrest. Dfd
they receive subsidiaries from Moscow.
Rome and Budapest, as has been re.
ported?
Russia after concluding a favor
able treaty with Persia and being on
good terms with Turkey. Afghanis-
ho n
fear and could turn to the Near East
and try to spoil the subterranean
British Balkan pdlicy. Italy sees in
Jugoslavia a vassal Of her heredi-
tary enemy, France. and though she
helped Jugoslavia conquer Austria,
she is trying by intimacy with Bull
egaria. Greece. Rumania and Albania
to lame Serbia, which fought heroi-
cally during the war.
The unguarded works Of the Span.
ish dictator after his conversations
with Sir Austen Chamberlain inti-
mated that England wanted Medi-
terranean entente which would ex-
clude Frances domination Of Europe.
Despite loud and secret provoca-
tions, the Belgrade government did
not lose it's head and obtained from
Sofia, without an tiltimatum after the
1914 Vienna model, promise of every
possible satisfaction. Impoverished,
iefenseless Bulgaria could not want
war. even If 100000 Macedonians
urgently demanded union with their
south Serbian brothers.
Solution Is Seen.
Solution of the Macedonian ques-
tion is possible only when the fence
of one state is put around the three
Jugoslav races and the semi-Mon-
golian Bulgarians. Then peace in
Southeast Europe will be threatened
only by the jealousies Of the great
powers.
Was not the League of Nations
created to overcome such dangers? :?
This aim seems to have been forgotten
at Geneva.
Copyright 1927