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THE BALKANS AND THE PEACE OF EUROPE

nate a future war. Servia is in desperate need of an outlet for her trade, on the Adriatic, and may get it through reunion with Montenegro. Austria is suspected of an intention to annex Albania; but to this the Balkan countries are not likely to submit. It was the dream of M. Stambouloff, the late Bismarck of Bulgaria, to unite all the States of the peninsula into a Balkan republic. Europe has this possibility, of having to admit a seventh power into its councils, to reckon with.

Image: THE CROSSES ON THE FOREHEADS OF THESE BULGARIAN PEASANTS ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE TURKS

Image: BULGARIAN PEASANTS LAYING FOOD, AS A SACRIFICE, ON GRAVES

Image: VIEW OF CETINJE, CAPITAL OF MONTENEGRO, SHOWING HOW THE BALKAN PEOPLE ARE  DEFENDED BY THEIR MOUNTAINS