THE BULGARIAN TREATY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 8

THE BULGARIAN TREATY.

The brief outline of the Bulgarian treaty which has been cabled does little more than establish the fact that the boundaries of Bulgaria have been contracted on the south to coincide with the line occupied before the Balkan wars, and that in the north she loses the Dobrudja to Roumania. Bulgaria is thus cut off from the Sea, but she is guaranteed an economic outlet under the protection of the League of Nations, presumably at Kavala, ! Dedeagatch or Salonika. The disposition of the portion of Thrace taken from Bulgaria is not described. Greece will doubtless have strong claims, but the admixture of nationalities makes the role of government in this territory by no means an easy one. Bulgaria shrinks in area by about 5000 square miles, and in importance she becomes the last of the Baltic States. Greece, Servia, and Roumania all gain considerable territory as the result of the war. Bulgaria loses. For this she has only herself to blame. Under a crafty monarch she pursued a policy of selfish aggrandisement, and must accept the penalties of her miscalculation. Not without cause have the Bulgarians been termed the Prussians of the Balkans. They have shown themselves untrustworthy and quarrelsome, and in spite of the sharp lesson of the second Balkan war continued to be bad neighbours and unscrupulous adventurers. Few will pity them in their present misfortunes, but all will hope that they will learn something from the disasters that have overtaken them.