not enter
into Balkan considerations.

Greece, after her two victorious wars, approximates 120,000 square
kilometers in territory, with more than 5,000,000 population.

Rumania has 139,690 square kilometers of area and 7,601,660 of
population.

Servia has an area of 87,300 square kilometers and a population of
4,256,000.

Bulgaria's area is 114,000 square kilometers, with 4,766,900 of
population.

Montenegro has an area of 14,180 square kilometers and half a million
in population, and, lastly, Albania, the newborn State, with its
scant hope of future political life, has an area of about 17,600
square kilometers, with an approximate population of 800,000
inhabitants.

Were the Balkan States satisfied with the above arrangement when the
great European war broke? To this question we have the following
answer from those concerned:

Turkey never forgave the European powers the treatment accorded to her
in the London peace conference, and proved her dissatisfaction by
entering Thrace and occupying Adrianople immediately she saw Bulgaria
engaged in the second war. But Turkey desired also the Aegean islands
occupied by Greece, and these, all but two at the entrance to the
Dardanelles, the powers allotted to Greece, not securing thereby an
increase of Turkish sympathies.

Greece was disappointed in two instances by the European powers;
first, because they did not make their decision regarding the islands
binding upon Turkey, thus creating a series of unending controversies
between the Porte and the Government of Athens, one result of which
was the wholesale expulsions and persecutions of the Greek element in
Turkey, and especially in the Vilayets of Adrianople and Smyrna. The
question of settling in a friendly way the Greco-Turkish differences
was to be discussed between the Grand Vizier, Prince Said Halim, and
the Premier of Greece, E.K. Venizelos, in a meeting of the two
statesmen in Brussels, when the great European war broke.

Bulgaria, who for a moment saw her most cherished dream of Balkan
hegemony realized and had all her fondest hopes shattered by the
second war and the Treaty of Bucharest, cannot help regarding her
neighbors as the robbers of what she considers her national patrimony,
and at the same time she does not forget that in all their proceedings
against her, Greek, Servian, Rumanian, and Montenegrin acted with the
tacit approval of the great powers.

Servia for years had struggled to get an outle