BULGAKS SACRIFICED

Evening Star, Issue 16351, 17 February 1917, Page 8

BULGAKS SACRIFICED

IX THE DOBHU'DJA, There is no small amount of die-satisfac-tion in ilio towns of I!ulgn.ria. and discernt'f.iit among the poa-sants at the prolonged duration of the war. If mi oh was the state ct in; nd one month ago. when the political thermometer in Sofia marked its maximum height, what will it he when the annmnicrment of .Monastir's fall wiil have to he marie? I hero are districts where the rural population, was already, despite oflicaj assurance,-., in a elate of exasperation. There were arrests, police inquiries, imprisonments, and summary ina.is of mutinous peasants. I his irritataon was due, to the systematic spoliation of the country districts of all their produce, which "as sml either to Turkey or fleinianv hj, exchange for military -assistance, guns, mid ammunition. the isarcity in some, rural . region;-; is nidi as to harder upon famin'*. Mditary reserves, nmtr.i-rv to what lias been .supposed, are Mill adequate, if not ov-‘ , r rmm»f i roi!Some continents niav still be. obtained heic and there, but the f- rmer abundance s cone. The losses in Macdonia will f herd'or-- he severely f elt. Ma< kenser, during his otfe.visive in iho Dohrudja exercised no economy, and sacri-li'-ed ivckkvsly a. hi rye part of his Pul- 1 gaiian divuiens. Tiicir number l.a.s twin, (•••'nsidcrably reduced. and, what with tin* losses now sustained up Monastir. the Buigarian army will he greatly clipped. Few Turkish troops are left in Thrace to draw upon at the last extremity, ary] there ii bitter recrimination now against Mackensen tor having placed Bulgarian troops in the first. IMf in tiie Dobrudja. whore that "■■re literally swept down by the Uioiismn hv Rumanian and Russian 'sheila. F.utip .Bulgarian regiments "ere destroyed in th D- hrudj i. It Bulgaria is now called upon as evidently she will lie, to hujrv la-rtf contingi'ius of reinforcements to Macedo nia. she v\i! 1 p e at no small loss the ijpj them, and if the army now retreating irnr hioiiustir iciviros no adequate assistant us situation will become desperate. liui uarian dreams of supremacy in the Balkan have at the same time received a rud awakening.—Exchange.