Evening journal., 1915-08-16
Bulqaria's Demands
(From the New York TribuneJ

Real injustice will be done the Bull
garians il the frank statement of the
premier is accepted as a mere pro-
posal to put Bulgarian military re-
sources on the auction block and
sell Bulgarian soldiery in a Hessian
fashion What Bulgaria seeks is the
reunion with the Bulgarian kingdom
of something more than a million Of
her race brothers, separated from the
fatherland by the treaty of Buchar-
est. II is purely and simply a ques-
tion which of the two alliances can
and will promise this.
For the loss of the larger part OF
this fraction of the Bulgar people
Bulgarian craftsmanship is respon-
sible It was the decision of Car
Ferdinand and his advisers to attack
Greece and Serbia in 1915 which pro-
voked the second Balkan war and
the ruin of Bulgarian hopes The
attack itself was a piece of treach-
cry. which takes dishonorable rank
beside Germany's Belgian exploit and
belongs to the same school of morals.
But the consequences of the attack
are now borne by something like a
million Bulgars, who were innocent
of all completely in the crime. Today
Macedonia. the portion OF Macedonia
which ever been recognized as Bull
gar in race language. but above all
in the desire its population, is
subject to Greek ana Serb masters.
Go back to the Serbo-Bulgar
treaty which preceded the first Bal
kan war and it will be recalled that
Serbia agreed TO recognize Bulgaria S
claim to all of Macedonia east and
south of a line drawn from Lake
Ochrda to the point Of contact OF
Serbia. Bulgaria and the Turkish
Vilayet Of Kossovo. This gave to Bull
garia Monastir, Ochrida. kuprili, Istip
and Prilep At the close of the war
Greece was prepared to surrender
her claim to the portion of Mace
donia east of the Struma River, in
cluding Drama Kavala and Seres.
But the Serbian agreement was
based on the presupposition that Ser
via should have Albania north OF the
Skumbi river When Austria vetoed
this Serbia claimed as "compensa-
tion" the portion OF Macedonia her
armies had conquered including Mon.
astir Kuprili. Ochrida and Prilep
Bulgaria declined to make such a
cession, holding Serbia bound by her
agreement and naturally refusing Ia
give up territory inhabited by n pop.
ulation which desired to JOIN Bull
garia
While the question was still being
/ debated Bulgaria struck Serbia and
! Greece. who had made a common
cause But this treacherous attack
failed. Bulgarian troops were driver
out of Macedonia by the combined
Serb and Greek armies. AT the same
time Turkey retook Adrianople ant
Roumania invaded Bulgaria from the
north and seized a wide district abou
/ Silistria and between the Danub,
and the Black Sea.
At Bucharest the victors divided
the spoils. Serbia kept all of Mace
donia west Of the mountains, includ
ing Istip as wen as Monastir and Pri
lep. Greece took Kavala and Drama
pushing her frontier east to the Kara
Su Turkey retook all of Thrace
save a small district between the
Aegean and the Rhodopians west o
the Martha. Roumania annexed thl
region between the Danube and tn
Black Sea.
BY these anneXations there was
taken from Bulgaria 1,250.000 people
who inhabited regions which Bulgar
ian troops had conquered or district
which we're Bulgarian before the war