HUNS IN BULGARIA

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 2

HUNS IN BULGARIA

Nearly every man in Great Britain and France Understands that if we do noV gain military success, Prussiaftisiri will soon be* a greater danger than ever (writes the London representative of the Sun). The Prussian methods of penetration and absorption proceed in peace as in w.ar, though of course restricted to those -few countries which Germany can reach within or through her blockade. Nothing except complete overthrow will disturb them. To-day they are roping the unwilling Bulgar to their commercial machine. Already they hive tied up Austria-Hungary, and Turkey is but a vassal State. In Bulgaria they are working./a& they did in Turkey, through the intelligentsia—the middle and upper class intellectuals with ambition and. sense of power. Three thousand young Bulgarians are at school In Germany. More than a thousand youths are at German universities. Many sons of merchants are learning .German, business methods. German, manufactures are being admitted at low prices, and German propaganda books—interesting, splendidly illustrated, fuil of arresting statements — are being given away. The finance section is helping the Bulgarian business houses through brandies of German banks; Prussian staff officers arc stamping the Prussian 1 mark deep 1 upon ths Bulgarian conscript army; Prussian generals, though nominally under the command of the Bulgarian Chief of Staff, are getting their own way in strategy by clever suggestion, dining', wining," and occasional coup u'ctals. Even Prussian submarines are' being sold in Bulgaria and sent strain in eactioifs. It is a policy of steady penetration, whereby Bulgaria, like Turkey, and to a less extent Austria-Hungary, will be at "the end of the war economically, and therefore politically, bound to Prussia's chariot wheels. A speech by Radqslavoff, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, has reached this country through The Times correspondent at Amsterdam, who points out that it frankly confesses the tight Pfnssion hold upon his country. Radoslavoff says that a separate peace is now impossible. Bulgaria, is far too "grateful" to C-ermany. Too,many Bulgarians owe thei' "kultur" to Prussia for stich a move tt> have thf* slightest chance of success. Bulg£ttiA is bound to Germariy— and so on, with numerous assertions that a sepafa'te peace "an never, never be." To that .powerful section of Allied diplomats who toyed with plans for dissociating Bulgaria, from the Central Alliance at the time of, Rumania's entry, this speech should be- a salutary lesson. It has its application no less to the publics of all countries fighting Germany. For ifc reminds the doubt?rs that the German commercial offensive will recommence nil over the world with Prussian methods, and with huge reserves of manufactured goods, as span as "opportunity corses.