THE VALUE OF TRAINING.
A Press correspondent who travelled through, Bulgaria at the end of last year found the country, as he had expected, stripped of its men. The ablebodied males between the ages of sixteen years and sixty years were bearing arms at the front or along the lines of communication, and the women, the young boys and the old men were working the farms. But in one village he saw two hale men, who stood idle and dejected. He asked why they were at home, and was told by a scornful woman that they had refused to be trained in the days of peace. When the hour of their country’s need bad
arisen they had volunteered for service, but the army authorities had refused to be bothered with raw recruits, and the two “objectors ” had been left to listen to the sneers of the women and children while Bulgaria’s national existence was staked on the field of battle. The punishment was severe as it was inevitable.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1073, 8 March 1913, Page 2
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168THE VALUE OF TRAINING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1073, 8 March 1913, Page 2
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