2i6 The Great War sive disasters, undermined by Slav sympathies, at- tacked by the diseases which always afflict badly trained and improperly equipped troops, the plight of this Austrian field force was plainly becoming more and more desperate. The consequences of these defeats were clearly seen in the changed political situation in Rome and in all Balkan States. Just before Lemberg, Turkey and Bulgaria seemed on the point of joining the Dual Alliance. German officers were at Constantinople. Rumania and Italy were neutral and seemed deter- mined to remain neutral. But after Lemberg, which gave Russia control not only of Eastern Galicia but of Bukovina, half of whose population is Ru- manian, the Bucharest demand to take the field with the Allies of Russia became insistent, Italy began to ferment. Bulgaria grew cold to German in- trigue. Even the Turk pushed his sword back and with characteristic fatalism resigned himself to in- glorious peace. After Jaroslav all this agitation was bound to grow. Promptly there was heard the circumstan- tial report that the Balkan League had been re- vived, that Russia had restored the Bulgarian-Greek- Servian Alliance and brought Rumania into it. If these Allies should join Russia, Bukovina and Tran- sylvania would go to Rumania. Greece and Bulgaria would have compensation from Turkey, the former in the iEgean, the latter at Adrianople. As for