The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-26
THE TROUBLE IN BULGARIA..
n state Pariamentsermnn Burden
Becoming ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

From Bulgaria come stories OF army
nautinities- -Tsar-E Ferdinand leaves for
Germany with nervous breakdown.
And Madrid asserts that his death will
be followed by Bulgarian republic.
hat is wrong in the smallest of the
central powers?
The answer Is food. politics, the
Dobrudja and too much Germany.
In Sobranje. or Bulgarian parlia-
ment of 243 deputies there are ten par
ties, and they are in a state of chronic
war. In the last two years they have
accused one another of everything
from grating to helping in the dis
tr'bution Of the entente pamphlets and
Wilson speeches, with which entente
airmen have lately been delugine the
whole Bulgarian front. For time in
July six parties acted together to
overthrow Premier Radosiavoff But
his successor Malinoff. could not induce
more than two to send representatives
10 his cabinet Radoslavon was ac-
used of being too friendly to Germany,
But we need not think on that ac-
count that Malinoff is friendly to the
entente AS he has announced quite
frankly, he is simply for Bulgaria
first.
Hungry Bulgaria.
Hunger really overthrow Radios
Iavon. While Bulgarians claimed they
were starving, he allowed food in
quantity to be exported to Germany
and Austria both. Bulgaria exported
other things. Rich in tobacco, she did
not ever keep enough AT home to sup
ply the army. with a wool clip. last
year OF 26.nn0.0 600 pounds, she is also
without clothing. But the lack of food
has been the worst. Bulgaria Is first
OF all agricultural OF maise and
wheat alone she produces enough to
feed her population. But even as
early ms June 81, hungry school chill
dren were demonstrating before the
royal palace in Safa. And they. too.
knew where the food had gone. Again.
the authorities did not even see to it,
as in Germany. that at least the army
should have enough. There was a kind
Of rationing system, but il was not en-
forced, And the minister of food sup
ply, General Protogueroh. existed.
many believed. only to make food ex-
porting easier The result" In the
words of the kambana. the most pro-
German of Bulgaria's newspapers. mas
been apprehension and despair"
Too Much Germany.
one Of the complaints made by Bull
garian deserters on the Saloniki front
was that every German soldier and
home. Bat for other reasons there was
bitterness against Germany. TIL re-
Gently at any rate; every Bulgarian
military bureau was under the super
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established their own soldiers hostel
yies and commissariat, and their own
parcels post, which Of course made
he dispatch Of food easy 1t Is said
that Malinof conditioned his accept
auce of office upon Ferdinands having
old or before the war bulgaria
cleared of Germans altogether Did he
agree to it, That isn't known vet.
Possibly. with what VAS soon to follow
on the Marine and Somme. he found 1t
easier to 80 himself. by then. too,
Germany had sown her real dragons
teeth in Bulgaria she had given sup
port to Germany's claims in the Dob
rudJa.
Germany doesn't insist that Bulgaria
share the pobrudja with Turkey Won
kuhlemanu merely suggested that Bul
.garia viii naturally and as recon-
peuse for Turkish assistance. give her
territory elsewhere fr---s+ttttttt h
south. That would block all Eulca-
gria's dreams of access to the Aegean
And the new premier himself is the
first TO refuse SO much as to consider It
For us, says the Preporetz. his
personal organ. "the question simply
does not exist" All Turkish claims on
Bulgaria were settled in 1915. Bull
garia," says the kamb ana, will read
the words of the German secretary of
state with the bitterest disappoint-
ment" other papers are more direct
Treaties between allies" says the
nationalist Mir, ought not to be mere
scraps of paper, or alliances them