The Days of a Man 1914 



other hand a Greek officer asked: "What should a 

 gentleman do under orders? What would you do?" 

 Paschich, prime minister of Serbia, himself a 

 Bulgarian, certainly tried to abate the excesses of 

 Serbian military officers among the Bulgarian popu- 

 lation about Monastir. According to a letter from 

 Belgrade to the Berliner Tageblatt in March, 1914, 

 he planned for generous adjustments in Macedonia so 

 as not to oppress the population, and to merge the 

 The old old era without bloodshed into the new. But the 

 story of officers in the field insisted that military dictatorship 



enforced . i r 



order and sharp repression must continue at least rive or 

 six years "in order to acquire sufficient energy to 

 combat the fearful nationalist agitation." 1 



Leaving Kavala, we passed along the marshy shore 

 Dedea- of Porto Lago to Dedeagach, a pretty town with 

 gach well-shaded streets, many warehouses, and (in the 

 distance) a large mosque. The land is fertile, but the 

 shore-line is straight, with no anchorage for stormy 

 weather. Not far beyond in a swampy plain lies 

 Enos,the southwest end of the arbitrary " Enos-Midia 

 line" drawn by the Great Powers in 1912 between 

 Bulgaria and Turkey. Offshore rises the low but 

 rocky island of Thasos, with Samothrace in the dis- 

 tance, Lemnos and Imbros lying still farther in the 

 offing near the mouth of the Dardanelles. These 

 ^Egean islands are of the same general type harsh 

 and craggy, scantily populated, and covered with 

 straggling forests. 



All four were claimed by the Greeks, yet the Turks 

 insistently clung to Imbros and Lemnos, regarding 

 them as necessary to the defense of Gallipoli and the 



1 "f/m die zu befurchtenden nationalen Agitationen mil geniigender Energie zu 

 bekampfen." 



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