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Show THE ItAI.KANS AGAIN. I.ventH in Turkey iin'l tlio Diilkans beo to m nn a t which rrom- Ue.t ioshlitif-1 in that ro-irm Wfore lnK. rt is rfr.crtp.l that the. Turkish army is tjioi.i I i r.in ii under Germany 'a direction di-rection an ! that Humana h-J iroli-t''! to j..in with .-rvi;i ami (;r."v ajwiiwt AuMria uu'l tioriiiany if Kumania will al. an. I, .a Wi- at'ituil,- of ii,-,ii r.ility ami, ,i-ruinal'l , fo mi v. 'ill tht'lli, or at lia.t not Mnii.l in tht'ir way. Thin in a rrxial of the pan-fclnvie ),rii,aaiulii In.-li ii rc-punsiblo l or the pri'ni'iit Kiiropran cnntlavation. I'ihI. ill' tin i usa:i:.inalion of Crown Viiii,-,' Krct-ri.-k of A-istrlu wrro tin) aijil'itiniis' of tlio Slavic nations. In the last lil'ty ,,;irs Iho racial cou-(.imir'iicsj cou-(.imir'iicsj of h" smalli'r Slavic countriis nan l,i-,'onio ono of the nm:t foii"'ii'uou imlUii-al fai'ts iu l!ilrnn'. hi tlio nanio pi-rio,! the -Ma;ars uiuiio pono with thoir Teutonic Teu-tonic neiK'hliors and funned the dual monarchy of Auntriu-Hunjjary. This was the onlv possilile mcaMiro of inde-pendenco inde-pendenco tho Magyars could hope to utitain because there was no self-governing nation of their owu ra--e to which they could become attached. The situation with regard to the Slavs of Austria-Hungary was essentially differ-' differ-' ent. More numerous than the Magyars, they could look forward to revolution and beyond that to amalgamation with their own people iu the kingdom uf Servia. There are said to be about tvil0,lHX Slavs in the dual monarchy. They are mostly iu T-onia, Herzegovina, Herze-govina, lsiria, I'aluiatia," Llalieia and liohemia. So dangerous had the agitation of tho Slavs become that the crown prince conceived the idea of a triple monarchy which should L'ive the Slavic provinces homo rule. Naturally this was dis-. dis-. pleasing to the Servian nationalists in these provinces and to the people of Servia, who had loni. entertained the ideal of a greater Servia. As a result of tho Kilkan wars she gained ,old Servia and looked forward to the day when she would be able by diploniacy or bv war to wrest the Slavic provinces from Austria. The plan of the erowo prince, therefore, was in direct hos-t-litv to this dream of Servian nationality na-tionality because it was designed to give tthe Slavic 1 rovinces a measure of home rule with which they would be content and which, it was hoped, would gradually obliterate the desire for union witii the Servian naf-oti. Two laths have been open to the dual monarchy a policy of watchful waiting and a policy of aggression. Vatcluul wailing meant tho lOiitinua! growth of the pan-Slav power, with the chances gradually increasing for the sewurc o: Bosnia and Her:.egovii:a bv Ser:n. Austria, therefore, adopted tlio I o'.iey of aggression. First 0f all it tiied to divi.'.c tlio S:aic nations one against the other. At the beginning of the Balkan war it p'.aved Servia against Bulgaria, la the second Balkan war it tdaved ISiilgar'a against Ser. :a. Then it made advances to U;::mui in. Through ' both ISalUn wars Austria oi posed as! vigorousK- as possible the territorial ambitions of Seriu and rontenegro. and succeeded, ;u preventing Servia from reaching the sea. In spite of the efforts of Austria and Germany to keep the Slavic nations a o his with one another. ,ve find in the proposal of Bulgaria an indication that the pan-S'avie sentiment is stron-er than politi, a! ,b:iYreuc-s and that ike sm.ailer Sin-, ie nations saw that their best -interests lav ia-'.ier with the big brother, Knssia. than with German and Austria. The Gorman attitude toward to-ward these countries has been: Re enr brother or t( yviil suaish vou.'' Germanv's interest in the' Kal'.an Situation has boon duo to the fact that it must hcep the way to the east open in ease of war. T: was ier-tood that Knglar.i Pr,i l-ran.- won!.; bc able to dose the seas to German commerce and that a.l sources of s-toplv outside the reutonte empires would bc cut off. ,,. less the wav through liumaaia, Bb garta and Turke,- ..rc ok.;ir. Ger. utany is now lighting ,0 Uo,n ;hj ,Uxir open, and finds it in aan-e- be:n-.dosed be:n-.dosed bv Bnlga-ia. whichif report s'l true, na, proposed to ioin with l;u;a and make ar agaiiis, th Tei,to-s Germany's onlv roco-rse in such ' a situation is to pit Te.rkev a-ainsf th-pan-ti-avs and Greece, but this is noiiev- of drcration l-,v;,.c of fir- ,.. -, .-. d com'.ition. Tt mar be I ,.,.-...,;. t. , es hy ogcrinz big ! ,.r...s to o!,'a:n th-i a ::'. 5 Jp'-01"'- ' '(. ;a t,:t it it dunbtfjl whether the I :,;ii-.;r I.'d hig.ier than the e.ar. |