SERVIA WORN OUT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 60, 6 November 1914, Page 4

SERVIA WORN OUT.

The report in a Rome paper that Seriva is finding it, increasingly difficult to carry on actively against Austria may readily he believed, the military correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says. Poor, tired, gallant little Servia ! She needs a rest, and she has earned it moll. The Servians are a bright, intelligent people, and as in the case of most mountain people—like our Highlanders, the Swiss, the hillmen of India,'and the Circassians—one ot their great characteristics in fearlessness and the consequent love of independence. It is through a strange concatenation of unfortunate circumstances that they have been fighting lone of their best customers. Much of their produce was bought by Austria. One of their greatest sources of income was pig raising. Austria bought all the pigs Servia could raise. . She at times has quietened Servia’s restlessness by threatening a porcine boycott'. Servia knows that, as long as she has no seaboard, so long will she be

at the mercy of Austria. This is equally well-known also to Austria. Hence one of the groat purposes during the Balkan wars was to prevent Servia from finding an outlet to the sea. The Servians, from the highest to the lowest,* look yearningly to the blue Adriatic, and their greatest um-| Ijitiou is to get a road thither, and throw off the Austrian commercial shackles. Senna has fought three campaigns—and the last one against a lingo grasping combination of two of the greatest military organisations in Europe—she has suffered much. She has done much in the last, and she do-1 serves much, and when the settling up day comes, the Powers can do much to heal her wounds and put a fly in] Germany and Turkey’s ointment ? by j giving Servia a slice ,of Albania, bordering on the Adriatic. Albania may! be likened to a side of lamb put iu cold storage by the Pan-Germanistsj after the Balkan scramble, in order to lie swallowed at leisure after the success of “Den Tag.” Albania is a fierce and turbulent State, full of mongrel religions, not the least of which is Mohammedanism; and it would lie well to clip its talons somewhat.