Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-02
(MANY UNABLE
TO HOLD BULGARS
P0werlessness. r { n e +
Than Lack of Foresight,
Brought Debacle
COULDN'T SPARE ARMY
Turkey Promised Re-enforce-
ments at High Price, but
They Never Arrived
COULDN'T A ARMY
Special Cable to Erening Public Ledger

Special Cable 10 Erening Public Ledger
Copyrtpht. 1918. By Ncir YORK Times CO.
London. oct. .
The London Times stockholm cor
respondent, says:
"From a particularly Uniformed
source | learn that the failure of Ger
many to prevent the Bulgarian d"ha''e
was n matter rather of lack OF ahllltN
than a lack of foresight. Malinof came
to power with the definite intention OF
making peace this autumn, whether I'm
conjunction with the Central Powers
or separately. and in this resolve ne had
virtually the unanimous n taclt
support of the army and ciNtl population.
'The difficulties With Germany over
Dobrudja and with Turkey over the
frontier question. added to the fac that
Germany denied Bulgaria's claim 90 %
share in the food supplies from Ukraine
and intimated hat i'm the event of gem
eral peace negotiations Bulgaria must
not put forward too high claims Nis-
avis to Serbia, strengthened the con-
yiction Of the Bulgarian Government
that Bulgaria had everything to lose and
nothing to gain by continuing i'm the
war.
After the Kaiser's conversation with
Ferdinand in Germany in August, the
Kings of Saxony and Bavaria visited
Sofia with the object Of personally i'm
%fuencing Ferdinand to remain true to his
allies. The visit taught them. however,
that the real power in Bulgaria no
longer rested in the Kings hands. and
that unless something was done TO give
Bulgaria material support and recreatc
n fighting spirit I'm the army Ferdinand
could not prevent the threatened de-
fo~ffon e n psG1t1f of flpfp rtnvtlHI-
tations. however, the whole Bulgarian
Government visited the front and used
every endeavor 70 encourage the army
but without apparent success.
A Germany and Austria We're uu-
able to spare troops, the only alternative
was to induce Turkey to send re-enforce-
ments to the Salonica front and Talaats
recent discussions at Berlin with tho
German Government and representatives.
or Austria and Bulgaria were largely
devoted TO this subject. Talaat'S price
was high but was eventually paid. II
included a loan to Turkey Of $725,o0o,-
900. the right 10 occupy Baku and the
settlement Of the MARTHA frontier dis.
pute in Turkeys favor. In return
Turkey was to send all her troops in
Europe and western Asia Minor to the
aid Of Bulgaria 70 repel the expected at
tack.
But TalaatS unucllahInG was n"t
confirmed by his colleagues at Con
stantinople. Enver and david accepted
the concessions and acted on at least
one of them. but objected To- the lending
Of troops to Bulgaria and raised all pos
sible obstacles. excuses and delays.
When the Allied blow fell. no Turkish
troops were in the line or even on their
way there.
There is every reason to believe that
Ferdinand is playing the usual double
or triple game through force Of habit
even when the double game Is no longer
useful. His appeals to RadoSIoir and
= Mackensen were a desperate gesture "a
conciliate the Germans. who. he tecI'
rightly enough, are his only reliable
support. He knows he must abandon
them or lose his throne and yet M
f~oresees that he cannot long hold II
without them. 1t is almost certain, on
the other hand, that he consented i'm adj
vance to M%alinoff's step, being aware
that Malinoff had the whole country ano
army, including the general staff. behinC
him.
rMalinoff's policy, which has beer
secretly developed during the last tive
months, may be described briefly al
the policy Of unconditional surrender