The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-25
WHAT AMERICA DID
FOR BELGIAN PEOPLE
HELPED THEM TO coNQUoR
THEMSELVES.

Sofia, Bulgaria, March IT, CORES
pondence of The Associated Press
The Treaty of Bucharest between
Rumania and the Central Powers
which terminated Rum&n; rartici-
patton in the war was trave .. the
alliance between Bulgaria, Germany
and Austria, declares Andrew Liapt-
chef Bulgarian Minister of War, I'M
der the terms Of this treaty Bulgaria
was compelled to surrender to Turkey
part of the valley of the Martha riv-
or in Thrace. This and other events
dissolut.onized the ,Bulgarians. ac-
cording to NJ Liaptcheff
Reviewing to the Associated Press
correspondent the circumstances
which convinced Bulgaria that Ger
many was playing false the Minister
said:
Former King Ferdinand was con
WINGED of the military supremacy of
Germany but his government refused
to give troops for other fronts than
those OF the Balkans and in spite of
high pressure from the Germans it
refused to sever relations with the
United States.
This restraint and the openly
vowed displeasUre of Bulgariaas
against Germans. who aimed to con-
quor economically the country, olsen
chanted Germany in her plan of SUI
premacV from Berlin to Bagdad with
Bulgaria as a necessary connecting
link. ThereUpon Germany assumed
a very distrustful and cool attitude TO-
wards her little ally.
1.-The result was that in the Bucha-
rest Peace Treaty of 1918 Bulgaria
was very i'll treated. Instead of get
ting new acquisitions she was to sur
render her old ones by giving up to
Turkey the southern valley of the low.
er Martha The army perceived clear
~ the falsity of Germany and the
people saw the danger which threat
ened their political and economic free
dom. The formal breach was only a
question of time"
NJ. Liaptcheff asserted that Bull
garia could have Cancelled the par
tial success of the Entente offensive"
in the Balkans which terminated Bull.
garia's participation in the war if Bull
gama had been aiming at military sue
cess instead of political results. He
said that Bulgaria at that time was
chiefly concerned, not in stopping the
Entente advance, but in seryering her
self from the military grip of her
former allies"
The minister complained that, al
though Bulgaria had helped to trans
port the Entente armies through her
territory and supplied them with food
even after they had passed into Ser
bia and Rumania, the services of Bull
garia were forgotten after the col
lapse of Turkey, Austria-Hungary and
Germany. According to the armistice,
asserted Bulgaria was to admins
ter Dobrudia but two months later
''hiso''iTu htlo tlohCu W 6NdCudI6 IlldI
province and sit had to be done in
the most pitiable circumstances"
The War Minister concluded by say.
ing that the entrance of the United
States into the war had this special
meaning for the Bulgarian people
that it decided to conquer itself. Firm
ly convinced of the sublime aim of
the United States which seeks to i'm
pose upon the nations a new method
of solving conflicts, he declared "the
Bulgarian people and army whole
heartedly accepted and made their
own principles proclaimed by Amerl-
ca because all Gulgarians believe that
the just cause of their race shall tr-
umph and the small people shall see
itself united at last"