The Stratford Evening Pest WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1913. THE EXHAUSTED BALKANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, 15 September 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Pest WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1913. THE EXHAUSTED BALKANS.

That the economic exhaustion of the I Balkan States is an accomplished, Fart is the opinion expressed by the, "Economist," and it is pointed outj in support of tliis conclusion that I railways have been damaged, bridgesi have been dost roved, farmhouses have been burnt wholesale, the male popu-j iition has been decimated, most of he live stock and oxen must have icon killed for food or used in th'e Tansport service. If whatever ~.fume loans can be extracted from in•estors are to lie applied, as the mili-, ary Governments of these Powers rill apply them, to the replenishment ' it powder magazines and the puv■liase of new guns, rilleSj armaments, [vA munitions of v;e^ ; the desnlaf.'nr

and misery of the-population will bo complete and a complete stale ot bankruptcy will be assured. The oll tlook is a sad one for the unfortunate people who went gallantly into | n ttlc for their homes and freedom. | )r B J. "ill" 1 - in lhe '' Contem " j pol ' a ry Review," attempts, to give

some explanation, of the ever-vaiymg phases of the Balkan situation. In doing so he describes the desperately. tead>erons attack by the Bulgarians on the Servians, who were their ~HieS . Dr Dillon gives translated, ! copies of documents discovered by

the victorious Serbs on the bodies ot d,>ad Bulgarians, showing that orders were issued by the commander of the second brigade, fourth division, of the .Bulgarian army to the commander of the detachments on the Zletvos River, setting forth that two columns were to send detachments at a a.m. to the Servian lines to ' decimate the outposts without noise,'' and then push on to indicated points A few Bulgarians deserted rathei than carry out these orders. Dr

■Dillon quotes the statement of one . ,Lf them to him. He said: "My heart j t sank within me at the thought ot j .stealing up, catlike, to these brave. a soldiers, transfixing them with bayo-j 'i nets, and then butchering their com-, I fades while they slept. That is not] i- soldier's work. For the Serbs were a not on their guard against us. They]

had been, and still were, our friends,j our comrades in arms. 1 had not the heart to bayonet them." Dr.. Danieff, the statesman, is] blamed for Bulgaria's treachery and for her'fall. When the last mails; left England the Ambassadors in; London'had agreed, in consequence: of the Montenegrin declaration that J all Montenegrin troops had evacuated; Albania, to recommend to the Governments of the Great Powers the] confirmation of the repeated assurances to Montenegro of a grant of an international loan and also of assistance for the irrigation works of Lake Scutari. It was believed that the loan would be for £1,200,000, distributed equally among the six Powers. But many disquieting occurrences have happened during the past month and the conference betwen Bulgaria and Turkey is still hanging fire. Outrage and atrocity- are daily reported, and peace and safety are far from assured. i . i I. ■■