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THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1917
BALKAN OUTLOOK BRIGHTER
Idling "somewhere in the Balkans”
is an army estimated to consist of
about 650,000 men, who have done
comparatively little fighting for the
allies, in terms of the activity on the
western front. General Sarrail, the
French commander, is in charge of
those troops, who were sent from
many climes to the allied base at Sal
oniki. Greece, and thence moved to
the northward.
The world has often wondered whe
ther this expedition of the allies was
another blunder—like the Gallipoli
and Mespotamia expeditions, which
the British now frankly admit to be
failures, in execution if not in con
ception. In fact, there has been con
siderable agitation in the British
press, in particular regarding the Sal
oniki expedition, and some of the crit
ics of the government's policy have
been outspoken in the criticism of the
campaign or of the policy in main
taining an army of nearly three-quar
ters of a million men at the Greek
base.
| If the Sarrail expedition is to jus
tify its existence, it probably will do
so within a short time; for conditions
are being shaped by the allies to give
them a free hand in carrying out any
policy they deem the best in the Bal
kans.
This situation is brought about by
the retirement at the behest of the en
tente, of King Constantine, the pro
German king of Greece and the ac
cession to the throne of his second
son, a young man of 24 years, who
is expected to be putty in the allies’
hands. The entente's program is being
carried out swiftly. M. Venizelos, who
was premier when war was declared
and who opposed Constantine unceas
ingly because Greece did not join the
contest with France and her allies, has
formed a ministry and he will ask
parliament to declare war against the
central powers. In other words Greece
after wavering for three years, is
nearer to the point (»f intervening
than she has been since the turbulent
early days of the war. In fact, dis
patches today say a state of war al
ready virtually exists.
The allies have been handicapped in
their Balkan operations by fear of
Constantine’s duplicity and the re
moval of the menace rrom their rear
now makes possible an advance upon
the Bulgarians and Teutons. That
such an offensive, with the co-opera
tion of the Greeks, is feared, is shown
by the fact that Bulgaria has demand
ed greater protection from Germany.
Already there has been some skirm
ishing on the Balkan fronts that gives
hint of operations soon upon a larger
scale.
While prevailing opinion seems to
be that the western front will be the
scene of the decisive battle, there are
those who think a Balkan offensive
would be the coup d’etat. Howere that
may be, it seems certain that the em
ployment of 650,000 men against the
central powers in the Balkans would
have an important effect—at least in
materially weakening the Germans on
the western front.
ALIENS IN AMERICA
The natives of Germany, Austria
Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey now
residing in the United States aggre
gate approximately 4,662,000, or
about 4 V2 per cent of the total popu
lation of the country.
' The foregoing total is announced by
Director Sam L. Rogers, of the Bu
reau of the Census, Department of
Commerce, as the result of a calcu
lation based on the census figures of
1910, the reports of the Bureau of Im
migration for the period between
1910 and the present time, and the
estimater mortality during that per
iod. Although it is impossible by this
method to determine with absolute
exactness the number of natives of
countries named now living in the
United States, it is believed that the
results obtained represent a reason
ably close approximation to the facts.
These 4.662,000 foreigners are dis-!
tributed, according to country of birth |
as follows:
Germany, 2,349,000; Austria, 1,-!
376,000; Hungary 738,000; Turkey,
188,000; Bulgaria, 11,000.
It is impossible to say whether the
proportion of aliens—that js, persons,
who have nqt applied for naturaliza
tion papers—among these foreigners1
are approximately the seine in 1917
as they were in 1910; but, assuming
this to he the case, the number of
male aliens 21 years of age and over
included in the above total would be
approximately 964.000 or about 3.2
per cent of the total number of maie
inhabitants of the United States 21
of age and over. The distribution oi
these aliens, according to country of
bifth, would be as follows:
Germany, 136.000; Austria, 447,-:
000; Hungary, 280,000; Turkey. 93,
000; Bulgaria, 8,000.
The proportion of aliens among
male Germans 21 years of age and'
over is very much smaller than the!
corresponding proportions for the
other countries named, having been I
only a little more than 11 per centj
in 1910, as against approximately 63 1
per cent for Austrians, 74 per cent for1
Hungarians, S2 per cent for Aus-1
trians, 74 per cent for Hungarians,'
82 per cent for Turks, and nearly 90 1
pef cent for Bulgarians.
PUBLIC dinner committees of for-i
mer days made heroic efforts to get
Joseph H. Choate and Chauncey De
pew at the same table, the result gen
erally being the exchange of satirical i
sallies.
At a Union League Club dinner Mr.
Depew, in a bappy vein, indulged in a
few pleasantries at the expense of his
old friends. Choate waited his turn
and then told the story of a little
girl who had been permitted to spend
the afternoon with a friend under
strict injunction to behave herself.
"Children should be seen and not
heard,” said her mother. When the
child returned home she insisted she
had been very, very good, and she
had sat quiet and listened to the el
der people. She finally asked her
mother: "What is Chauncey Depew?
Everybody at the table was talking
about it.” The mother looked sol
emnly at her daughter and said: “My
child, you are not old enough to un
derstand such things.” St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
GERMAN troops are said to be de-1
serting in Holland in large numbers
in order to escape the terrors of the
fighting fronts, the food hardships, or
the Prussian military regime, and as
an inducement to get them to return
the German government has suspend
ed the rule which requires that de
serters shall be shot. However, this
apparent softening of the iron laws
of the German government has not
been induced by sentiment. The kais
er needs every soldier he can get and
more, and a live fighting man at the j
front is worth more than a dead one, |
shot as a deserter.
THE Canadian troops who are dis- j
tinguishing themselves in the battle
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around Lens the great mining center
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kaiser’s boasted war machine.
“You have sworn to tell nothing
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“Nothing but the truth, your
Honor?”
"Precisely.”
“Then, judge, with that limitation
upon me, I might as well warn you
that I’m not going to have much to
say.”—St. Louis Star.
HEAD OF HIGH GRADING
GANG PLEADS GUILTY
CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 12.—An
tonio Cuaz, alleged head of the so
called gold "high grading conspir
acy,” pleaded guilty in the United
States district court today. Sentence,
was deferred. Cuaz, it was announced,
would be the principal witness against
eighteen other men indicted with him.
Cuaz admitted his guilt on three
counts—conspiracy to defraud the
government, conspiracy to commit an
offense against the government and
use of the mails to defraud. As a re-;
suit of the alleged conspiracy, hun- j
dreds of thousands of dollar’s worth |
of gold stolen from Colorado mines]
was sold to government mints and i
assay offices. Cuaz was arrested in |
San Francisco while trying to sell
$15,000 worth of bullion at the mint.
WILL MASTER SUBMARINE.
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William L. Saunders, chairman of
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bis faith In tbe invention by an Amer
ican for successfully mastering the
German submarine problem is unshak
en, despite the fact that the scheme
had yet to be tried. He urged thtit the
public have confidence and *vait
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