The territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in Europe was devoured by the Balkan countries in a short time, and Albania also took the opportunity to declare independence.

All that Turkey has at its disposal is the capital, Constantinople, and less than twenty miles of its surroundings.

In terms of results, Serbian troops occupied most of Macedonia, northern Albania and Novozapar Oblast.

The Greek army occupied the territory from southern Macedonia to Thessaloniki, the Bulgarian army occupied eastern Macedonia and part of Thrace, and Montenegro expanded some lands to the east.

In general, several countries have their own gains, and they can be regarded as initially achieving their strategic goals.

But that's not all, the problems of the Albanian region are the more explosive problems in this war.

Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy wanted to form a self-contained Albanian state, but Serbia occupied some parts of northern Albania and succeeded in gaining access to the Adriatic Sea.

Serbia's expansion was strongly supported by Russia, but drew strong opposition from Italy and Austria-Hungary.

In particular, Austria-Hungary, after Serbia formally occupied northern Albania and gained access to the sea, Austria-Hungary expressed its opinion to Serbia, demanding that Serbia immediately withdraw its troops from northern Albania, otherwise it would ensure the interests of Austria-Hungary in the Balkans with military mobilization in some areas.

Germany quickly and strongly supported Austria-Hungary's actions, while Russia, ill-prepared, backed down, persuading Serbia to make concessions and referring the issue to the Great Powers Council for discussion.

Although the situation in the Balkans was briefly calm because of the intervention of the great powers, in fact, it was precisely because of the intervention of the great powers that the situation in the Balkans was destined to become even more dire.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Australasia at the moment.

As the time entered April 1912, the Sydney Olympics also entered the final stage of preparation.

This is a world event created by Arthur with the efforts of the whole of Australasia, and more than 3,000 athletes from more than 25 countries have signed up to participate.

In fact, since the end of February and the beginning of March, many foreign athlete delegations have come to Australasia to enter the intense and exciting training session.

Some of the powerful countries that have enough strength have already carried out various training in their own countries, and are now preparing to travel to Australasia to participate in the final Olympic Games.

The good news is that the Balkan War did not affect the Sydney Olympics, and even though the Balkan countries were mired in war, they still sent a certain number of teams of athletes to participate in the Games.

In fact, this is also normal, behind the Balkan countries generally stand the great powers, and the great powers are involved, and it is not appropriate for these Balkan countries to ignore them.

In order to make the Olympics and Australasia more famous around the world, Arthur decided to use a circumnavigation to raise Australasia's reputation around the world, as well as to promote the Sydney Olympics.

Of course, this is not a simple circumnavigation of the world. The first circumnavigation of the world dates back hundreds of years to the middle of the 15th century.

At that time, large sailing ships were used to sail around the world, which directly opened up the centuries-long Age of Exploration and the Colonial Age, and it was also one of the main reasons for bringing Europe to the top of the world.

It was only after the circumnavigation of the globe that Europeans realized how small the place they lived in, and then they realized that there was a very large land and a large population outside of Europe.

Arthur's planned round-the-world voyage would use an Australasian airship, the AU-3 airship, to make a circumnavigation of the world.

Circumnavigating the world by flying is a great milestone that no one else has yet reached.

If Arthur could propel the airship around the world, it would also make Australasia a place in aviation history.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the AU-3 airship developed by the Aviation Research Laboratory.

The development speed of airships is still relatively slow compared to airplanes, which is actually the reason why Arthur formulated that the importance of airplanes is greater than that of airships.

However, with so many years of scientific and technological accumulation, coupled with a certain amount of investment in airship research and development, it is still very easy to update the airship to the third generation, to be precise, the second generation of aviation research laboratory.

Arthur's purpose in promoting the airship's circumnavigation of the world was to attract the attention of European countries once again after the last Macao-Portuguese War, so that European countries could invest their budgets in the research and development of airships.

The AU-3 airship has a huge improvement in performance compared with the previous generation of airships.

In particular, the increase in flight speed gives the AU-3 airship the ability to truly circumnavigate the globe.

After Arthur gave the assignment, the aeronautical laboratory began to make intensive arrangements for the round-the-world voyage, carefully considering the choice of stops during the round-the-world voyage, and striving to complete the meaningful round-the-world voyage in a shorter time.

For a circumnavigation of the world, there is an essential difference between the first and the second.

Just as the winner is remembered in a race, the news only reports about the first circumnavigation of the world.

After all, the Trailblazer is always more admirable than the Trailer, and after the first circumnavigation of the world, shouldn't the second and more times be inevitable?

After the research of the aviation laboratory, the round-the-world voyage began on April 10, starting from Sydney, the first stop is Hawaii in the United States, the second stop is Los Angeles in the United States, the third stop is London in the United Kingdom, followed by Berlin, Rome, Delhi, Batavia, and finally back to Sydney.

Even if you count Sydney, the airship will only be able to dock at eight locations to complete this planned round-the-world voyage.

In fact, the aviation laboratory could even reduce the stops by a few more if it wanted to.

But after all, the purpose of this round-the-world voyage is not simply to complete a fast round-the-world voyage, but to use the gimmick of the airship's first round-the-world voyage, which is also to promote Australasia and the Sydney Olympics.

Therefore, the choice of these stops has some ulterior motives. Needless to say, Hawaii is after all, it is across the entire Pacific Ocean, and it is still necessary to stop in Hawaii in the middle.

Arthur didn't want to have fun with his painstaking round-the-world voyage to sink in the Pacific Ocean because of any mistakes and accidents.

Next up is Los Angeles, a large city in the western United States, which is necessary to make a name for itself around the world.

The same is true in London, England, and I believe that the British people will not refuse. As for why they didn't choose Paris or Berlin, it was because they were either too close to London or they didn't seem to be a good one.

Finally, it is also useful to choose to stop at Arthur in Batavia, to use the circumnavigation of the world to demonstrate the strength of Australasia, and also to facilitate Australasia to better control Southeast Asia.

Although Arthur did not want to directly annex the Dutch East Indies, it was necessary to have a say in this region.

The plans for the aeronautical laboratory were quickly finalized, and the media controlled by the royal consortium were quick to release the news.

On April 8, 1912, Britain, Germany, and Russia sent telegrams to Arthur congratulating him and asking if there was anything he needed to help.

To Arthur's surprise, the English sent telegrams the fastest, which was completely different from that of Edward VII.

During the reign of Edward VII, the British royal family, although never absent from congratulating Arthur, generally lagged behind the German and Russian royal families, and in some cases even the latest of the European powers.

What was even more unexpected for Arthur was that the British government also sent a congratulatory telegram to Arthur, and also put forward the intention of further reaching cooperative relations and strategic cooperation in the economic and military fields.

Although I don't understand what the purpose of the British government is, it must be Australasia that will take advantage of the cooperation with the world's first power.

At Arthur's behest, the Australasian government sent a telegram back to the British government, welcoming further strategic cooperation.

The day before the round-the-world voyage, the two sides reached a simple agreement, and agreed that after the Olympic Games, Australasia would send a diplomatic team to London, England to discuss formal cooperation.

The German and Russian telegrams, on the basis of expressing their advance congratulations on the round-the-world voyage, also mentioned very metaphorically that if the round-the-world voyage was successful, they hoped to introduce Australasia's new airship technology.

Arthur naturally would not refuse this, after all, the cost of an airship is not low, and the price of selling it to the outside world is even more expensive.

If you bring in technology, you can make more money. Although this is the most advanced airship technology in Australasia, militarized aircraft have been studied for generations, and who cares about the extremely fragile airship that is currently extremely fragile?

Arthur's resolute agreement also made the German side feel much better.

Originally, William II thought that Australasia was planning to move closer to Britain, but it seems that it may have been just to avoid war, from declaring neutrality, and not participating in the struggle between the two major military blocs.

Although Germany may have lost a powerful assistant during the war, Australasia's excellent geographical location is definitely more valuable than offending.

Talking with Nicholas II, the two sides also greeted each other with their children. Crown Prince Alexei's hemophilia was miraculously cured by Rasputin, which also made Nicholas II feel much better.

Of course, to Nicholas II's surprise, Rasputin, who healed his child and was regarded as a saint by the empress, was one of the main culprits in the collapse of the Tsarist Empire.

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