The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-11-23

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! is spoken and written about as an ar
,n.siIcc" The word ""apitulrihn -
universally taboo.
! The d"n!can.: oT III" p'"pi" cam.
trulhfu,;- hv l:s' :.h"'! ~ "r:'';';2t. '''
! i, j. d stincti:- o:fhamd. and ""r iT'
ish soldiers HAY" not failed I" h"" b
,hcs. signs Thcy say they liulE"r"
! cnul!ui assum" Il l"fii"r n"'f'h"'H''
il they artunliy hrd Won IN" "aT,
Trilr their ministers; :,aI hl;,h"r on
rial: appear /" ""!npi" with ""mahd~
Of tho French and Er.:'*h military
authorities In; Their ord =. VNr:'t'E .
arr disnh~yrd l,y their Sul"Td mates. We
.e"m To hear thcsr hItcn"S rlor" patient /
~ than our French allies. who ~" head
irr and overcome them h$ ~" hii.h llama.
heard Of ,,In cas-, III winch French :
general obtained quarters for troops
that had ben granted hy IN" w''r MINIS !,
ter and refused IL thc local commander
by a threat nf immcdlat" h",aharIm' nj. '
Tone Of Press Hostile.
or BulCarians who profess t" haN"
boon secretly friends "f the Entente !
Lhc maine l. legion. Premier Malin"lf as
.;ur"d ne he was. l;ut i - d.E,"ult
Ia reconcile This statement WITH = writ
icnt anti-Fntrnt" article IN his organ.
he lrcpotz. IN September H. hay"
proceed Of the policy that led 10 their
government entering the war on III" sid"
II Germany. but the TOM of th"" press
until the eve Of rapitulaIinn WAS de-
tiantly hostile 10 the Entente.
Prisoners who tried /" rScap" uSNhlIE
were shot. Those who wcr" r"cantur'd
alive were made examples "I. French
cnntain tells Inr that h" WAS r"captur"d
and underwent thru" months of solitary
confinement on black bread and water
fIc nearly went mad for want Of sleep
for he was rcmorSclcssly awakened
every half hour by sentry Knocking
on the door Of his cell and nquirinI II
he was there. On" night h" was a"tK-
cncu twenty nine times.
Greek and Serb civilians brought from
Serbia aud Greeks from Macedonia
nlso were treated with horrible cruelty.
under which those who died are Il larger
number than those who survive.
Old and young men. women and chill
drcn and all classes. rich. poor. land
owners priests and teachers alike were
condemned to eighteen months or UNI
ceasing daily toll breaking stones for
/ the roads Their food WIS such as beg
rars would have refused Tho whip
was freely applied and thousands per-
ishcd miserahly.
There Is not a shadow Of doubt thar
slavery Of the worst type known in
history, ancient or modern. was prac-
ticed on a large scale in Bulgaria IN
this war Demands for punishment or
| those responsible for this crime already
have been made by the French and
British authorities.
Fifteen thousand Armenans fed to
Bulgaria from Turkey to escape massn-
ctc. Two thousand were informed on de-
80 hn Z
man government. which supplied the
Bulgars with list Of persons suspected
Of revolutionary tendencies.
The list comprised oil the intellectual
Armenian refugees.
4 There Is much talk Of q food scarcity
4 in Bulgaria. Hut although the scarcity
Il undoubtedly exists. there are large sec
lions Of population Of whom majority
haye not felt the pinch of hunger. The
: peasantry are now more prosperous than
ever before.
The hardy Bulgarian women per
formed the most necessary field work
since the war began and some literally
have accumulated fortunes. One case
WAS cited OF a woman and her three
y daughters who. last year. with the help
= Of tho children and hired female labor
realized $4,000 (:3o.ooo) from tobacco
and wine. Tho number Of new accounts
In tho savings banks Increased IRON
q ~, 900 in 1917 to $4,000 this year.
RadoslavoR Perdinand's Creature.
Ever since RadoslavofI carne into OF
fee all power. they say. was concen
trated in the hands of Ferdinand who's
creature he was. The majority govern
=, ment in the Sobranje secured by lll"Ga
:, process a manipulated ballot Military
- law was supreme throughout the coun
:. try. The muzzled press could only pub
=, ltsh matters agreeable to the pro-Gcr
~ mans.
=, The attack on Serbia Of October. 1915
~ was decided upon without reference It
A tho chamber. 1t was intensely diSap
n proved by the people and even by IN
army Two thousand soldiers ana OH
cers p-cre shot for descrtton or for re
zeal "a march. so great was the un7op
IL ularity Of the war. The people wer
ch to1d the entente wus unable to throw al
er adsouate army into the Balkans. IN
var being already practically won b:
H. Germany. There was no rlsh Oh pain
ed fnI complication. This is the story OF
= all sides.
s. Quite az exculpatory are the eXpiona
Do lions given in justification or inc 'u'
or parians' attack on the Serbian ana IN
ge SS-aor allies in 1913. To believe all IN
Id ror,nants is to acquit the Bulgarian poo
~. ~ any evil intentions in all the uii
$500 occurrences Of the last five years
- T,hnt they were more stnncd agalnS
49,, shining Is the burden of their 'a''
Barring projects for the lncoronr"'." ..
of Albania. free access 10 the -S,i .,s.
The annexation OF Nlsh and the Mora''
valley. and the ultimate possession
constantinople, ell Of which inc hu'
rarians now repudiate as conccplt'''
- FerdInand's bounucss am0ilIot,,
,,aerstand the former claims OF ou'
earia 10 tho territory of Macedonia an
Thrac, will be pleaded in the pcace ro'
ference on purely ethnologic ErouNnS'
prisoners Suffered Cruelty
=, sorne instances the suncrinSs
pritisb var prisoners were deIloeF"te,
;nnictsd by brutal officials. but mann
go me result of indifference ana par
l.. also 70 tho difficulty OF mai"'a'''',
.oaors in a country whose own sol
ssi.rs rad 70 bear great prifatlonS'
british and French prisoners n',u c ~ al.
for the least III usage the Scto7. . Ino M
ond R1,,nanians the worst. pu' OIL l''' -
iIterncd Serbs. only $4,000 survive wv,
q non Serbian prisoners at camp i''''
kovo 5000 died -,,,, ,risor
Two hundred and nifty British pr dS :
"en+ured at Dorian weTa QcpI'.tu ,
hpoots nuttees and TUNES and lnrcc
. aaTch 10 Sofia, $50 miles n"Fcl"u
I W,,h little clothing and Win u" Wv -;
| 800 ,bon what they could PICK uP ~ g.
| ,;aIGs such AZ onions ro"tH vi 80.
4 ~rains OF raw maize. RTcau w. ,.n, :,
\ once. Their jorney lns'ea S,A HI,ilinni,