The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28

had made a thoroughly good job of it.
 Possibly, too bolshevist influences from Russia had crept in. Neither the Tsar nor our representative in Sofia knew anything of this. General Jekow knew all about it.. a few days before the battle, which was known to be inn minent, he developed ear trouble. I un- derstand, and went to a clinic in Wiz enna.
 General Won SchoItz and all the Ger mans had done their utmost Where Germans were in command the Bull garian army held out. On the noun tain sector the Bulgarians refused to have a German command They even went so far as to leave divisional general there whom General Won Scholtz wished to have removed be- cause he did not trust him; and they made numerous alterations in person. nel in that sector.
 DENIES HE BROKE TREATY
 The suggestion, put forward by the Bulgars to cloak their defection, that was informed that soldiers councils had been formed among their troops is untrie. It is equally untrue to say that we had broken treaty obligation to leave six divisions on the Bulgarian front. for this obligation was confined to the Serbian campaign of 1915.
 
 in August. 1916. there was about one di- vision in Macedonia. The obligation must also have lapsed on the formation of the German supreme military com mand for the quadruple alliance in Sep tember. 1916 This supreme command did not in any way neglect Bulgaria.
 The forces opposed to each other there were of about equal strength The Greek troops with the entente had .tor. choice of sides was not based on convic- tion. The Bulgarian army had had a long rest They had had the oppor- tunity to strengthen their forces, and ought rather to have helped us in tho west than 0 have sought aid from us
 We Knew well that the Bulgarian ar my was. in fact in bad state but there was ground for the hope that it would be able to withstand the attack which we expected, as, indeed, was the case wherever the men were still will ing to fight We anticipated. now as previously, as did the German chiefs in Bulgaria, partial failure, but we did not expect the complete collapse of their army
 The rumors which had circulated in Sofia, to the effect that the army would not continue fighting after September 1s. found only too terrible confirms-
  cry for help. We had to insist that Bulgaria must do something for her. self. for otherwise. we, too. were lost. B ULGARS BREED, HE SAYS
 It made no difference whether our defeat came in Macedonia or in the west. We were not strong enough to hold our line in the west and at the same time to establish in the Balkans German front to replace the Bulgar- ian, as we should have had to do if we were to hold that front in the long run.
 The Bulgarian government had done nothing whatever to keep up the morale of the troops and the population or to maintain discipline. They gave free rein to enemy influence, and took no steps against any of the anti-German agitations Entente bribery was the finishing stroke, even the troops that streamed back to Sofia being well sup piled with enemy money. These were the true causes of the defection of Bulgaria from the quadruple alliance
 There were no illusions about the seriousness of the situation created by the collapse of Bulgaria. Turkey, too was now in great difficulties. Her Palestine front was broken beyond re- pair. General A1ienby had captured Jerusalem and moer than S0,000 Turks)
 Here, again, the German officers and