IRON HEEL IN BULGARIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 3

IRON HEEL IN BULGARIA.

GROWING IMPATIENCE WITH • GERMAN. TYRANNY. ■' . ■ ' /•'■«* SALONIKA Feb. 21. Confidential reports on the condition of public feeling m Bulgaria received here from trustworthy sources show that a wave of extreme discouragement and despondency has succeeded the frenzy of popular exultation aroused by the. retreat of the Allies into Greece m December, when the German Staff pro-' mised a speedy advance and pursuit of the Anglo-French Army and its prompt expulsion from Salonika. The long delay m the fulfilment of this alluring programme has shattered the early hopes of the Bulgars and produced a truly remarkably retulsion of feeling. A general presentiment prevails of evil days impending, and an attack 'by overwhelming forces is anticipated Loth from the oast, and the west. The,country Jia« been drained of its reserve's of grain and cattle m exchange for depreciated German paperThe people daily are growing more impatient with the arrogant arid overbearing ways of the Germans m their midst, whose behaviour, more especially m the 'villages, arouses bitter anger. As an instance the case is cited of a recent mnguinary fight resulting m several deaths, provoked by German soldiers offering violence to ai peasant girl m a village near Philippopolis. Alosfc Bulgarians freely declare that if a Russian Army comes on the scene they will at once submit and accept any demands made m the name of the Tsar. They say that their true duty is to fall on the Turks, their natural and worst enemies ; for, only by so doing can they hope to make peace with Russia.'