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Show BULGARIA'S FEARS. Jealousies aroused by the Balkan states have been responsible for ncarlv all the European wars of the past one hnudred years; and now that the peace conference is laboring to quiet the hatreds, the difficulties presented are being made apparent. Bulgaria claims it has been abusd ever since 1830 and protests Rgainst the new boundary lines which arp about to deprive the nation of more territory. One of the Bulgarians who Is seeking seek-ing to ward off the carv'ng of his coun try makes this statement. "Bulgaria, which ever since its dismemberment by the British congress con-gress has been struggling for the realization of these principles, 1 firmly convinced that the great powers of the entente, whatever the- faults of the various Bulgarian governments, would Bee that the Bulgarian people be accorded. ac-corded. The right of availing them BelVi of those principles which are to be the corner stone of the world democracy de-mocracy and a new order of thing.' "There are reports that Bulgarian Thrace is to De ecaea to trreece. nuui ing definite has yet been published about Serbia's wish for a rectification of its frontier line with Bulgaria. But the very thought of Serbia demanding more Bulgarian territory' is extremely painful to the Bulgarians. They cannot can-not forget '.low Serbia in 1S30 got possession pos-session of the Bulgarian districts of Negotin Zaitchar, AJexinats and Knja-jevatz. Knja-jevatz. The Berlin congress in 1878 further ceded to it the Nish district, with Pirot, Leskovets and Vranya, in spite of the protest of the inhabitants. That they are Bulgarian lands is proved prov-ed by so many eminent English writers who are authorities on the subject such as David Urquharv, Edward Spen cer. Lord Strangford, Mackenzie and Irley. Ethnically, historically and morally, Serbia has no right over the Bulgarian lands. Her greatest argument in wishing wish-ing a further "rectification of fron tiers, at tne expense 01 tmigana is that she means to protect herself against future aggressions on the part of Bulgaria But who in reality has been the aggressor in the past? In the early periods of their existence t was always Serbia that acted treach erously toward Bulgaria In 1885 while the Bulgarians o. north and south Bulgaria were proclaming their union.. Serbia was the stat that attacked at-tacked them in the back It shouldd also be remembered that though the Bulgarian commander in chief ordered the attack in June 1913 'he Berbianfl had already had their war proclamations proclama-tions ready in print and distributed them on the next day, and that on them nothing was said of Bulgarian oppression, and that a month previous Serbia had signed the secret Scrbo-Greek Scrbo-Greek treaty against Bulgaria. |