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BULGARIA^* DELEGATES LEAVING ST. JAMES' PALACE AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE 

 BALKAN PEACE TREATY. DR. DANEFF. WITH A BEARD. IN THE CENTRE. 



civilisation as the Western Europeans. 

 What appears murderous and horrible 

 to us is legitimate warfare in their eyes. 

 I saw the blood stains on the wooden 

 bridge at Constantinople a few weeks 

 after cartloads of slaughtered Armen- 

 ians had been taken across it to be 

 flung into a common grave outside the 

 city, where for years they had dwelt 

 secure. I spoke to newspaper corres- 

 pondents fresh from the scene of the 

 brutal murder of King Alexander and 

 Queen Draga. In the Balkans, story 

 after story of the atrocities of the Bul- 

 garian guerilla bands was told me, 

 some at any rate well authenticated. 

 It is not surprising, therefore, that, in 

 the furious clash of war which makes 

 men act as elemental brutes, the Turks, 



Bulgars, Serbs and Greeks have per- 

 petrated deeds of ghastly horror on one 

 another, and also upon the defenceless 

 villagers in their path. Little reliance 

 can be placed on information on this — 

 or, indeed, an}' — subject sent officialh' 

 from Sofia, Athens or Belgrade, but 

 European correspondents will soon tell 

 us what has taken place. The mixed 

 population of Macedonia and Thrace 

 was always the cause of quarrelling 

 between the Balkan States when an}' 

 scheme of division was put forward. It 

 looks now as if the quondam allies 

 would arrange the partition of an unin- 

 habited land, which, no doubt, would 

 simplif}- matters from their point of 



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