Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-10


| agents Of every great Power involved
swarm here, their pressure centring
upon him.
NATION FULLY PREPARED
Bulgaria is fully prepared and waiting
to enter the war the moment she re-
ceives absolute guarantees that by so do
Ing she will attain that for which other
nations already engaged are striving
namely. the realization of her national
ideals" said the Premier.
THE bulk of these aspirations lie in
Servian Macedonia, which with its 1,50O,-
900 of Bulgarian peoples was pledged and
assigned TO us at the close of the first
Balkan war II is still ours by right and
principle of nationality. When the Triple
Entente can assure us that this territory
will be returned 10 Bulgaria and our mi
nor claims in Grccian Macedonia and
elsewhere realized, the Allies will find us
ready to fight with them. But these guar
antces must be real and absolute. No
mere paper ones can be accepted
Unfortunately our aspirations are not
attGinable by direct force of our own
arms. We cannot go and take the terri
tories which We feel arc rightfully ours.
Instead, they must be ceded to us by
others for compensation for our arms in
the general conflict We have, therefore,
both groups of powers in negotiations to
that end. Only by dealing with both sides
do We feel we can secure best guarantees
that what we desire will be attained.
ION the part of the Allies, we are
asked for the direct participation i'm the
war Of our entire army, whose valor the
whole world knows. On the part of Ger
many, Austria and Turkey, we are only
asked for continuation of our neutral
ity until the end of the war.
TEuTON OFFER DIsTAsTEFUL.
"CandIdly, this latter request we are
loath to grant We cannot foretelI what
the future holds for us. To discount It
entirely and tie our hands by a solemn
pledge OF continued neutrality would be
lmpoiitc indeed, We might agree to re-
main neutral for a shorter period But
whether we remain neutral, or whether
we fight, our end and the motiveg gov
olning our decision will remain the same.
we have no disposition TO play for
Tune in these negotiations. We seek only
to gain guarantees that win insure the
absolute realization of our national
ideals, and just what these are, il seems
essential to me, the world now should
know.
There are now living outside the bor-
ders of Bulgaria nearly 5000 900 Rulgar
lans. The bulk Of these inhablt districts
contiguous to us and constitute the ma
orlty of the population of these districts
We aspire TO have them united in one
OF this total number. 500 OO0
nhabit Russian Bessarabla. Another
10000 are in Rumania. Others are I'm
Ihrace, but the greater number about
800, coo. inhabit Servian and Grecian
Macedonia. It is there, we frankly ad.
nit, that the bulk Of our national aspira-
lions also lie,
FOR A UNITED BULGARIA.
Already we have more than 600 o0o
largely from Servian and Gre.
,ian Macedonia. Indeed, half the popula-
ion Of soma consists Of refugees. They
are our brothers-of our own blood. Sim
ply caring for them can never be real
solution of the great problem. Only
United Bulgaria can solve that.
While Bulgaria is quite ready to par
lclpate In the war she does not under
estimate the cost. She knows that Tur-
Key Is strong-far stronger than Europe
yet realizes
The fatigue which our army naturauv
et at the close OF two successive V,ars
las passed away. Our troops are In bet-
er condition and better equipped than
,ver. They have been organized on tbe
Russian military system Their Officers
ave studied in the leading militarv
schools Of Europe
THE whole nation Is provisloued mr..
lared as never before"