RUSSIANS AND BULGARIANS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1610, 14 September 1916, Page 2

RUSSIANS AND BULGARIANS.

A WAR eoiTcspondenl miles Ilia I 1 lit? Bermans have useil Bulgarians against the "Russians in 1 Ik* clmrncler of spies, It was expected that Bulgarians speaking the same language and disguised in Russian uniforms would he most nsel'nl. That .hope has been disappointed. The Bulgarian language, although written I he same as Russian, is pronounced di(Terentiy, and the spies have in very few eases succeeded in slipping away from the Russian lines. Their speech has betrayed them, and (hey have promptly been shot. This further .treachery, added to the renunciation by the Bulgarians of their Slav birthright and their friendship to. Russia, ha.s in--1 minted the Russian troops. A few weeks ago a party of 150 Bulgarians, caught in an awkward place, were most anxious to surrender, they held up theix - hands and tied white handkerchiefs on their rifles, and shouted to the Russians that thex wished to he taken prisoners. But the Russians had no mei-ey for Irai.tors to the Slav cause, and the Bulgarians were forced to continue lighting. .Almost all of them perished. A .captain of file Bulgarian Army, recently captured, said that any officer who was known to regret the break with Russia was sent to a post of danger, and, if possible, got rid of. Many have hceu attaeh-

ed to liic (lonium Army, and sent to (ho foremost of tlie battle at; Verdun.