Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-31

finitely agreed that south of certain
ridge of mountains should go to Bull
garia, while the country north of that
ridge should go to Servia. Disagree
ment arose only regarding a few
towns on the boundary line, and this
was left for the Russian Car to de-
eide upon afterwards. AS Greece also
had some axes to grind in the Turk
ish question, she, too, came in; the
Balkan Alliance" was thus formed,
and the war against Turkey declared,
it being understood that the new allies
were to meet the enemy wherever his
forces were concentrated.
AS Bulgaria was the most exposed
to the Turkish attacks and had most
at stake, she assumed the greatest
burdens, her front being from the
Black Sea to the Servian-Turkish
boundaries. With rare force and tac-
tics, however, she went at the enemy
and surprised the world with her sue
cess. In short time Turkey was
beaten and began suing for peace.
Now the world knows that it was
chiefly the Bulgarian sacrifice, the
brunt of which Bulgaria bore against
the incoming Turkish hordes from
Asia, and the Bulgarian achievements,
that won the victories for the Balkan
states and freed the Christians from
the Turkish rule!
But while it took only about a
month to win victories, it took sew
eral months to conclude q formal
peace, principally because Servia,
again, in complot with others, wanted
Bulgaria to exhaust herself by keep
ing a standing army, and the Bull
s.-A nd ant
in that severe winter, while Servians
and Greeks, in secret, were spreading
and settling themselves in the newly
liberated Bulgarian territory. When,
finally pressed by Sir Edward Grey in
that London Peace Conference, they
affixed their signatures as Balkan
allies to the treaty of peace with Tur-
KEY. they at once showed their colors.
Here Servia again championed the
new conspiracy by most hideous
perfidy of declining to abide by her
agreement with Bulgaria! Greece and
Montenegro openly Joined her in see
ing the newly liberated Bulgaria torn
to pieces again!
Thus the just victorious Allies be-
came most intense enemies. Bull
garia had again, as twenty-five years
before, to drag her worn-out army
from the Turkish frontier in the east
to meet Servia and her allies at the
other end. Strong efforts were made
to settle the matter peacefully, but
Servia stubbornly refused to stand by
her agreement The disgust, the ag-
gravations, and the proVocations
finally reached such a pitch as spon-
taneously to kindle the second Balkan
war.
Rumania Crosses the Border
This war proved that the conspiracy
against Bulgaria had been wider than
originally thought, for while she was
fighting her treacherous allies from
the west and south, Rumania invaded
her from the north, and Turkey came
back again from the east. Thus Bull
garia was besieged by her imm ediate
neighbors now vulturelike enemies
and isolated from the outside world.
Not only was she surrounded, attack
ed, and plundered. but portrayed
throughout the world as a most bar
barrie and atrocious nation; no cal
luminous word in the language was
spared from being used against. that
country and her brave army. AS
soon. however. as her communica-
tions were re-established. Bulgaria
demanded an international commits
sion to investigate the charges and
ascertain the truth This was done,
and the report of the Carnegie Com
mission will stand as an historic docu-
ment against the enemies of Bull
garia.
Bulgaria survived under those ex-
treme conditions, but for this she had
TO pay dearly. Servia and Greece
took Macedonia and part of Thrace;
Rumania took her richest wheat fields
while Turkey took the largest part OF
Thrace, which Bulgaria had just won
Lby her victories. No nation ever