Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1919 — WILL DANUBE FEDERATION BE FORMED? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL DANUBE FEDERATION BE FORMED?

The dismemberment of Austria has revived the idea of a Danube federation along the urged by Kossuth in the middle of the nineteenth centuiy. According to the Hungarian patriot the states bordering on the Danube river had common interests economically and for the most part racially, and should federalize. The present movement toward a union of the new states forming from the disrupted Hapsburg monarchy has hardly "assumed any

definite shape, but has been discussed at Paris among* the various representatives assembling for the peace conferences from tfie Balkan region and to the north. ; „ Among the states grouping themselves racially as members of the Slavic group are Poland. Czechoslovakia. Jugo-Slavia. the latter including Serbia. Moiifenogroi Ilerzegwmtt. Croatia, Ilosnia and^-Slavbiilm —— iloumania and Hungary, while not of the Slavic-raee, would be expected to join the proposed federation for political reasons. Bulgaria also would be invited to join as soon as the Sofia government had met the conditions imposed by the peace conference. -r V ■ ' ”T Geographically siieh a union of states would form a barrier between Russia and Germany. through central Europe,', ff 6m the Baltic to the watery the Mediterranean, and Black seas. . • The above map. only approximates the boundaries of. the pew state.?,., as clalfrtS"hfi<l local claslTes afe changing the unsettled frontiers.