BULGARIA’S INGRATITUDE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1460, 16 October 1915, Page 2

BULGARIA’S INGRATITUDE.

It was to the fiery eloquence of Gladstone and the armies of Russia that Bulgaria owed her deliverance in 1878 from the yoke of the Turkish tyrant which had lain upon her with a cruel weight tor five long centuries, says a contemporary. Again, under Russian auspices the national aspirations of Bulgaria, which had been substantially gratified by the Treaty of San Stefano, were completely realised in 1909 by a declaration of independence which swept away the semblance of Turkish suzerainty and won the recognition of the European Powers. Three years later Bulgaria joined with Servia, Greece, and Montenegro to wrest further territory and rescue more of their respective nationals from the Turk in a war of which the subsequent quarrels of the Allies, fomented by German

and Austrian diplomacy, deprived the victors, and especially Bulgaria, ot a large part of the fruits. Now, after the passing of another three years, Bulgaria has reversed the policy which had completely governed her existence, not merely through five centuries of blood and tears, but also during the more hopeful struggles of the last generation. She is going to war against the Powers that delivered her from bondage in order to prop up the. tyranny of her hereditary foe. In due time Bulgaria will reap the reward due to her ambitious t and treacherous monarch, who has been hypnotised by “ Bloody William.”