The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-01

On sentimental grounds, as we'll as on
territorial considerations vital to the
Bulgarian people, the country faces a
difficult choice. There Is not an individ-
ual in Bulgaria who does not remember,
or has not learned. that the Russian
people in 1877 shed their blood for the
liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish
yoke hat the voice of Gladstone. echo
ing through the historic halls of West
minister, reused the slumbering con-
science of England and of thristcndom
to protest against the determination of
the Bulgarian people after the abprtlvr
revolution that preceded the outbreak of
the Russo-TurkiSh war: that it was
England's stop 80 which, in 1885, stayed
the hand Of Turkey after the Bulgarians
of Eastern Rumelia and those of the
principality of Bulgaria had joined their
destlnieS together in an act of union
which still stands.
ON he other hand, they will tell any
inquirer at Sofia that the oppressive
pr ssure eXerted by Russia upon Bull
garia since the liberation, eliminating in
"a deliberate attempt to govern Bulgaria
from St. Petersburg, has wiped out the
bulgarian blood debt" to Russia that
by insisting upon the division, of the
territory liberated by Russia in 1877
and built up into Il Great Bulgaria"
under the terms of treaty of San
Stefano. and by the restoration Of
the dismembered provinces to Tur-
key. Great Britain became a par
ticipant in the Bismarckian plot to
plunge the Balkans into "a new period of
unrest.
This unrest has been the direct cause
of at least three wars-the Serbian at
tack upon Bulgaria in 1889, in an
abortive attempt to prevent the
union of Bulgaria and Eastern
Rumelia the first Balkan war, which
drove Turkey out of the provinces re-
stored to her by Bismarck and Beacons-
field. and its terrible aftermath, the
second Balkan war. which sowcd the
seeds for the latest crop of tragic events
in the Balkan peninsula and on the bat
tlefields of Europe. In Sofia, it is worth
noting, the present struggle is regarded
as the third Balkan war.
sentiment with the Allies.
But despite the divided sentiments
concerning Russia and Great Britain,
sentiment in Bulgaria is undoubtedly on
the side of the Allies on the side OF
Russia, which liberated bulgaria, and
on the side of Great Britain. which il
recognized In Bulgaria as the mother
OF democracies and the champion OF
human rights, despite the occasional
mistakes OF statesmen in putting Eng
lands money on the wrong horse as
the early British error was frankly de-
scribed by Lord Salisbury.
Behind Great Britain, France and
Russia. however. and under their collec-
tive protection, stand Serbia, Greece am
Rumania, who hold territories which
Bulgaria regards as her own. The stories
that are told by refugees from Serbian
and Grsek Macedonia are certain II
arouse profound Indignation In Bulgaria,
The fact that by the admission of the
Greek censor at Salonica there are
$4,000 Greek and Serbian subjects from
Macedonia under the colors of the Bull
garian army In its present mobilization
W syNptOmatic of the situation. The
further fact that these Greek and Ser.
bian subjects serving under the Bul.
garian flag are ella moring for a war
of revenge against Serbia and Greece
IL another illustration Of the secthinG
mass of hatreds and resentments with
which the Bulgarian Government has
to deal in the present uneXampled crisis,
VIII the desire for revenge govern Bull
garia's action or will calm reason pre-
vail in the end?
The sumnioning Of Alexander Malinorf
by Gar Ferdinand for advice IL al
important indication NJ coming events