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Show If KING FERDINAND A READY TOOL Hjflljf I Blind Believer in Germany IB Easily Brought Over to View Hf of Duke of Mecklenburg. ill MACEDONIA WANTED Hlln'lH r ' lint! I ' Mobilization a Dull and Dreary I lift!! Proceeding .in Bulgaria Mill Hundreds of German ill II Officers. I Iwl tM ' ' . ill Sill' Parts. Oct 15, 4:15 a. m. That the I nft'ln I Jtusalan retreat, skilfully exploited by I Ml ft I1 German agents, w&B'the immediate I HrfNI cause of turning against the allies the I sentiment of the Bulgarian people I -who are Intensely practical, -was the I assertion made by A. do Panlfu, the French minister at Sofia, to the correspondent cor-respondent of the Journal at Piraeus. I "The event coincided," he said, "with the visit of the Duko of Mecklenburg, Meck-lenburg, Tvho found a ready tool In King Ferdinand, a blind believer In Germany. The Champagne succoss came too Tate to restore the balance. IWH The Bulgarian people unaorscajm llVftll nothing of diplomatic calculations. 'Iff ill flTb.ey.Bee only Macedonia to be con- 'PNw! quered. Certainly If the Russian flag plljj appeared at Varna or Burgas it might jlBJjfj rouse memories In their inmost souls Wa I t Interest cornea beforo sentiment. hHnlJ Mobilization a Dreary Proceeding. IKij j "Runsla, the groat motherland, will 11 PI thenceforth bo far away to the Bulga- alTlll Tlau peasant Mobilization was a jJSlM dull and dreary proceeding without f n 3 songs or cheers, vastly different from IffiKjU the heroic rrenry of October, 1913. IkH Hundreds of German officers are I Re acting as instructors of the Bulgarian aSfji Brmies, but they do not wear German MWtfll uniforms, although a few Austrian lff( nnlforms aro seen. Germans in Bul- yHH sarian uniforms organized the defen- IIlBljf pes of Dcdeaghatch and the Black UfffiJJI pea ports and fixed batteries and antl- iBJJI plrcraft guns at Sofia. Ht Bulgarians Without Joy. HBf 'It would be premature to express IB fjl jan opinion about the possibility of Xfj a revolution for at least a month. The HjH Bulgarian people are embarking upon Bfij a risky adventure without joy, but It EVw is beyond queatVm that if they find BVf out they have been deceived they will Jm eeek out and punish the guilty. The Bh rupture of diplomatic relations stupe- D tied tho Bulgarians. Even when wo jMEg ,went to get our passports no one In II Sofia believed we were going. We IBM -were treated with the greatest cor- 9j diallty and our journey to Dedea- MH ghatch was without incident." Hf oo |
