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Show periapts of Berlin; Turkey mad" T lir. t plea ; Austria made it ; it is j ui'.e the fashion. Jul gar; a is ekait:iied ; it approves ap-proves of the fourteen poi ntd ; it supports sup-ports the lvalue or" nations proposal; it is enraptured of the new civilization which has or is about to da wn, and after all it is almighty g'.ad Germany wus beaten. And will not the allies bear in mind that a just victor is always al-ways iri'Tciful 1 There isn't much of Bulgaria to pun-is!!, pun-is!!, if Bulgaria is contemplated by her military party. This precious bunch of auper-rascals is pretty thoroughly scattered. But the Bulgarian people should not lay tho unction to their souls that they are going scot-free of the consequences of their support of a government which acquiesced in the extermination ex-termination nf subject nations. "When Bulgaria ends with the peacemaking business she will discover that the punishment pun-ishment of Versailles was not reserved for Berlin alone. Berlin's accomplices also com in for the trouncing of justice, jus-tice, j BULGAR WAR CRIMES. Tho Bulgarian envoys seem to have timed their arrival in Paris at an unfortunate un-fortunate moment. They near the allied al-lied peace conference meeting place just as the official report of the interallied inter-allied commission which has been investigating in-vestigating Bulgarian war crimes submits sub-mits its findings. That report shows that 52,000 inhabitants of the area occupied oc-cupied by Bulgaria during tho war, died in the course of two years from hunger hun-ger and ill-treatment. Before the Bulgarian invasion of eastern east-ern Macedonia the population of that region was 303,000; now it is 225,000. Starvation was systematically organized organ-ized by Bulgaria, the report charges. Forty-two thousand persons were deported de-ported by the Bulgars and more than a fourth of this number died as a result of hardships, blows and torture which no civilized nation would have dared to inflict on criminals. Deliberate extermination exter-mination by hunger is charged, and thousands of hapless prisoners were tortured tor-tured to death. Bulgaria's envoys doubtless will plead the customary one: This fright-fulness fright-fulness w-as the work of tho old regime; re-gime; the Bulgarian nation should not be held responsible for the misdeeds of Kerdinand, who has been ousted from his throne; the inspiration of the deviltry devil-try is to be found in tho Gorman im- |