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. economic and consequently at the political
mercy of the Dual Empire and of Bulga-
ria, through whom alone her trade could
reach the outer world.
Rumania, which put up so brave
fight against the Central Powers and
whom the Entente Allies were obliged,
sorely against their will, to abandon to her
cruel fate, also deserves every considera-
ton at our hands, and it would be nothing
short of wicked to favor Bulgaria at her
expense, no matter how polite it might
appear to wean the Bulgars from the
Kaiser. As for the Greeks, they have at
the present moment several hundred thou
sand men fighting splendidly for US in
the Balkans, so much SO that France and
Great Britain have been able to withdraw
the greater portion of their troops from
there in order to reinforce the armies
under Marshals F'och and Sir Douglas
Haig on Germany's western front, while
thousands more have enrolled themselves
under the flags of the United States, OF
France and of Great Britain to fight for
cur cause.
Under Obligations to Others.
The Great Powers of the Entente are
under deep obligations, moral and ma
terial, to Serbia, to Rumania and to
Greece. These obligations cannot be full
filed if there is any understanding bring
ing Bulgaria into our camp, unless she
surrenders everything for which she sold
both herself and her national honor to
Berlin and to Vienna as far back as
twelve months or more previous to the
beginning of the present war.
Bulgaria now realizes that she allowed
her sinister monarch to back the wrong
horse, and that she stands to lose not
merely all that she has acquired in the
present war, but also the territories
awarded to her by the treaties of London
and Bucharest that signalized the close of
the two first Balkan campaigns. She sees
that all the sacrifices which she has made
during the past three years for the sake
Of the two Kaisers have gone for nothing,
and that after having been subjected to
every sort of notifying eneroaehment by
Germany upon her national sovereignty
and independence, after having been bull
lied and insulted by German officers, after
having been submitted to extraordinary
exaetions ia the matter of foodstuffs and
minerals by Emperor William, after hav-
ing given the lives of one-half of her
army to his cause and after having
brought her treasury and the trade and
industry Of her people to ruin and chaos
for his sake, she Stands now confronted
with the peril of dismemberment by the
victorious Entente, for the benefit of her
former allies and Of Rumania, all Of
whom she so cruelty wronged.
Famine Rife in Bulgaria.
Famine is now stalking through Bulga-
ria although the staple industry is agri-
culture According to the German and
Austrian newspapers, which are in a posi-
ton to know, food riots are taking place
all over the kingdom. Epidemics the
result of malnutrition are raging, and the
army and people are heartily sick of the
war and of their German born ruler, whom
they have always more feared than liked
and whom they hold responsible for all
of the evil by which they have already
been overtaken and by which they are
menanced in the immediate future.
Small wonder, then, that King Ferdi-
nand has left Sofia secretly for foreign
lands. Life is held cheap in Bulgaria,
where so many statesmen who opposed
his designs, beginning with Premier SIAM
buloff, to whom he was indebted for his
throne, have met with their deaths by
assassination.
His only hope of returning to Bulgaria
and Of retaining his crown is by making
some sort of deal with the Powers of
the Entente, and with this object in view
he is likely to turn up in Switzerland.
But the Allies must remember that Ferdi-
nand en- crafty that he Is known rs the