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Show THE BALKAN STATES AND THE WAR If Germany can keep tho Ualkan states neutral she will havo won n diplomatic victory counterbalancing that won by tho Allies at Homo. Hut defeat hero will bo more expensive than thnt in tho Itnlian capital. Tor, tho fall of Constantinople Is nn event far more Important to tho Issuo of the war than tho capture of Warsaw without tho Itusslan army. Ono of the most dramatic circumstances In tho whole strength is now supplied by mo uaiKnn crisis. Tho solution may not settle the wnr, but if the Alllei nro defeated It will materially length en It, nnd may save the Turk for many months or oven years. Rarely In human history has thore been a inoro striking contrast than tmit supplied by the fortunes of Hul-gnrla Hul-gnrla two year.i ngo and today. Then she was bcatu.i i..d forsaken, n pariah pa-riah among tin- Ualkan pariahs. Today To-day Iiulgarian decision Is awaited In overy capitals of Kuropo with tho In-tensest In-tensest concern, nnd tho rulers of all tho Groat Po-ve-s pro bidding asol-xt each other f)r I.ilparlan favors. Kvon Czar Ferdinand's chagrin at missing that triumphal ontrnnco Into Hyznntl-urn Hyznntl-urn nnd the world filling ceremony nt Saint Sophia must bo partially forgotten for-gotten today when no king is too great to do him homage Hovlow of Reviews for September. |