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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



Lustige Blatter.'] [Berlin. 



THE AMBASSADORS' CONFERENCE IN LONDON 

 HAS BECOME A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION 

 IN MODERN ORNAMENTAL DRAWING. 



The fixing of the boundaries of Albania has pro- 

 duced a most original ornamental drawing which 

 includes all the wishes of the Powers. 



quieting to them, though for different 

 reasons, as it is to Austria. That is why 

 Russian statesmen have no intention of 

 entering upon a conflict with x\ustria. 

 The\-, too, have lost many of their old 

 illusions about the Balkans, and the 

 time is past for them to count on exer- 

 cising a quasi-sovereign protectorate 

 over the whole Balkan Peninsula. Rus- 

 sia's attitude to Servia is quite different 

 from her attitude towards Bulgaria ; 

 and as to Austria, Bulgaria is no menace 

 to her, but with Servia it is a different 

 matter. 



THE PROBLEMS OF SALONICA. 



M. Albert Sauzede deals with the 

 problem of Salonica in the Nonvelle 

 Revue. 



Till war was declared the aspect of 

 the problem of Salonica, he writes, was 

 distinctlv Austrian. But an advance 

 on Salonica was not the supreme ambi- 

 tion of Austria. From Salonica she 

 counted on creating a vast hinterland, 

 and all the peaceful railway penetration 

 she proposed was but the preface of a 

 desire for political occupation For 



the Balkan Allies, on this point as on 

 others, the fear of Austria is the be- 

 ginning of wisdom. It is her diplo- 

 matic manoeuvres chiefly that are to be 

 distrusted. 



From the ethnographical point of 

 view, the Greeks are shown to have the 

 advantage. Of the 120,000 inhabitants 

 of Salonica, more than half are Spanish 

 lews engaged in commerce ; while the 

 Greeks maintain the remainder of the 

 economic activity. There are scarcely 

 any Bulgarians. In the centre of Mace- 

 donia the Bulgarians may be in a 

 majority, but Salonica is Greek, as are 

 Thessaly and other regions on the coast. 

 While the Greeks and Bulgarians are 

 disputing the possession of the city, the 

 Servians are proclaiming the absolute 

 necessity of it to them for the prosperity 

 of their country. Certain Servian poli- 

 ticians propose that Greece, already pro- 

 vided with so many ports, should give 

 Salonica to Bulgaria ; Bulgaria would 

 renounce her claim to the territory be- 

 yond the Vardar ; and all the country 

 west of this river, outside the limits of 

 the new Albania, would be divided be- 

 tween Servia and Greece. Servia would 

 keep Monastir and Greece would re- 

 ceive, in place of Salonica, a vast exten- 

 sion of territory. 



The economic significance of Salonica 

 is of the highest importance. It would 

 be the ambition of Greece to develop the 

 already enormous traffic. In any case, 

 the commercial output of the port de- 





Westminster Gazette.'] 



THE BALKAN TEA PARTY. 



(With apologies to "Alice.") 



The Montenegrin dormouse who has not been 

 asleep, and who won't be put into the teapot. 



