"WITH A SWORD AT OUR THROATS"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2734, 31 March 1916, Page 7

"WITH A SWORD AT OUR THROATS"

'HOW TURKEY TREATED WITH BULGARIA. The Spanish journalist, Senor Ibariez do Ibero, recently told, in the '(Echo de Paris," the :6tory of 'his investigations in Turkey. He hus- further giveu an account of an interview he had wtih a prominent personage in the Turkish Suuistry of Foreign Affairs, whose name be has promised not to divulge. In -reference to' the conclusion of the Turco-Bulgarian Treaty this persbnage said:—

"It is very simple. We concluded the treaty with a sword at our throats; Bulgaria challenged us to yield to the conditions imposed by her or to expect an immediate attack. Ab is our wont we bowed our heads.: Asa matter of fact, the'Bulgarian'ambitions respecting Constantinople have undergone no diminution. Very naive ore the people who thought to disarm them by territorial concessions. Tile' Bulgarians have always dreamed of becoming masters of Constantinople. _ They have deceived everybody in this war. .. Look at the Greeks, now, whom they are lulling to sleep like children. One article of the Turco-Bulgarian Treaty, however, concerns thorn particularly, and that is the one providing for the eventual occupation of Salonika by the Bulgarians. Should. Bulgaria keep this port Turkey would obtain as compensation the littoral of the Aegian Sea as far as and including Kavalla, and the territories recently ceded by Turkey would come back to her. Greece could not understand Venizelos, her groat statesman, and is doomed to disappear, because she lias shown herself inferior to her destiny. In fact, however able a man may be, how can he raise up a country which does not possess the means of fighting, and which lacks morel strength?-