Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13
BULGARIA WAS HUNGRY
AND THREW OFF YOKE
CONSTANT Argument Between Various
hembers OF Parliament, Who Ac-
cuSc Ench Other 4,

WASHINGTON. October 12.-Fror
bulgaria come stories OF army mutinies
oI ~; Ferdinand leaves for Germany
N wi,h nervous ,no, sreakdown. And Niadrid
by Bulgarian republic. What 10
wrong In the smallest OF the central
The answer is food, politics. the
D0brudJa and too much Germany.
IN sobranje, or bulgarian Parlia-
mem ,ies OF Zta deputies there are ten par
war. IN the last two years they have
accused one another of everything from
81 GAINS ,t to helping in the distribution
speeches. with which entente airinen
have lately been deluginE the whole
Suigarian front For. IA time in July
Premier Rados!avoff. But his sunce eM
SCR. Malinoff could not induce more
man TWO to send representatives to his
ha ain,net. kaaoslSvoif was accused OF
we need not think on that account that
;Maiinon Is friendly to the entente. AS
sim s.e mas ma, aa am quite frankly. he is
SIMPLY Tor Bulgaria first
Hunger really overthrow Radoslavon
while Bulsarians claimed they we're
..,arv'nE: he allowed food in quantity
20 be exported to Germany and Aus
things. o'"ee
Rich in tobacco, she did not even
keep enough at home TO supply the
army With wool clip last Year Of
100000 pounds, she is also Without
SS, enp ,Ss But the lack of food has
all agricultural. or maize and iI wheo ot
alone she produces enough to feed he r
reputation. But even az early as June
81 :, nunErT school children were demon
soma. And they, too. knew where the
LG9o nad gone Again. the authorities
that not 81 e Yen, see to 1t: as in Germany.
enough. There was a kind of rationing
system, but II was not enforced And
me minister minister Of food supply. General
irotoGuerof existed, many believed
only to make food exporting easier
The result" in the words of the KAN
nana' the most pro German of Buisa-
sion and despair
One OF the complaints made by Bull
Garian deserters on the Saloniki front
civilian in Bulgaria was sending food
home; But for other reasons there
was bitterness against Germany. Till
retEiGfntly' at any rate. ever? bulgaria n
vision or a German officer. They had
cstaolished their own soldiers hostel
,.e san ana commissariat. and their own
The dispatch OF food easy. II is said
mat Malinoh conditioned his accept
@ oid OF olhce h. upon pom rerdinands having
cleared OF Germans altogether. Did he
agree to IT? That isn't known yet.
1r on; with what was soon to fol-
Il easier to go himself. BY then. too.
Germ any had sown her real dragons
,ceth In Bulgaria. She had given sup
Port 70 Germany's claims in the
Germany doesn't insist that Bulgaria
snare INC Dobrudja with Turkey. Won
Nueh imam merely suggested that Bull
pfnSe for Turkish assistance. give her
territory elsewhere. presumably TO tn
south And the new Premier himself
is the first to refuse so much as 10
'0" For us y; says the prepore,z. hi, nor,
S noa n, organ The question simply does
garia were settled in 1915. "Bulgaris, :"
says the Kambana, will read the
words OF the German Secretary OF State
S S,hs I nano, eit,elest disappointment."
tics between allies" says the Nationa-
list Mir. ought not to be more SCRAPS
~ Sa paper, or alliances themselves will
nave no value" But for whatever rea-
sons Germany seems to be support
ing the Turks. And every Bulgaria.
peasant pea a; and fighting man is now com :
Is 20 he sold out to the age-long enemy;
mat bulgaria is to get nothing from
war which at least two months
ago. appeared to have been won
Appeared to have been won. Or n,
ieast would be, in few weeks more
10 10 1noic the Narodni Bravo. by the
/ "a VI our dily on the western
'front.'. And then from that western
IIIont came Il story that was incredible
~ was worse 10y far than Germany's
ia . Turkey. The ally on the
weStefh front was smashed, on the de-
iensiye. in fun retreat. Above all the
/ americans, 1900, 900 Of them. and as
nanE more soon TO come. were beating
Germany wherever they met her. The
EuiGarian soldier. already sitting ir
ms french ragged smokeless and hall
T1S,u, haa something else to think upon
nc yen political parties once moro New
az cach others throats 10 place thc
blame for II. And Ferdinand startef
oVerwhelmingly for Nauheim.
I mat VIII be the erd in bulgaria
some Time ago the Mir. in an hour O.
gloom. said this: 'u'
IN one of his plays Shakespeare saw,
ana' lhere Is tide in every mans life
ana woe to him who is not ready r.
IaHe advantage OF 1t because he IS
ahIeep and does not succeed In launch
ahs MS boat into the sea from tht
snoto at high tide, in order 10 sal
away IN search Of his fortune"
men may not he Shakespeare yer.
pat.n, nut II Is probably what mos
Su'sa.ians are thinking just at prex
ant, Nhd whatever Americana or UuI
shsnhns ~ America. can do to heir
.nem 30 think viii be work in goo