"I ABANDON YOU TO YOUR BOCHES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2635, 4 December 1915, Page 7

"I ABANDON YOU TO YOUR BOCHES

TSAR FERDINAND DENOUNCED BY HIS COUSIN. The Due de Montpensier has sent the following telegram, dated London, October 7, to Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria:— _ "Cousin,—Three years ago, after your victories over the Tnrks, I sent yon my warm congratulations. I was proud of the relationship between US) I followed with pride the progress of what you yourself termed the Holy Crusade,' and I divined your soul's secret ambition to make your chargers hoofs ring upon the steps of St. Sophia of Constantinople. _ "To-day, bursting outrageously the ties of gratitude which bind you to Russia, who eet Bulgaria free, betraying the national aspirations of your people, you, a Prince of French blood, threw yourself into the arms of thoßo • very Turks, your enemies of yesterday, who have now become in addition the enemies of France. Given the choice between tho generous and noble soul of Franco shedding her blood in defence of hor threatened homo, between those glorious Allies generously fighting for the noblest of causes, that of the liberty of tho peoples; and the bands of barbarians, pillagers, assassins, aiM traitors, your degenerate heart is drawn, towards the latter. "Your saintly mother, my aunt Clonientinefydaughter of a King of France and herself a faithful Frenchwoman; your uncles, tlioso noble, unsullied soldiers,' Orleans, Aumale, Nemours, and Chartres, if they hear tlio earth's uproar, must rise in their graves i to hurl their curse in your face. 1 "And I, who so often sent you my aft'ectionato and loving wishes, especially on your name day, which is mine also —I, who saw iu you a son of France doing honour to his house, disown you ( now. I know you no more; I abandon you to your apostasies, your remorse, . your Turks, and your Bodies 1 "Ferdinand of Orleans, t j "Duke of Montpensier." ■