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(1920) [MARC] Author: Anatolij Nekljudov - Tema: Russia, War
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168 QUARRELS BETWEEN THE ALLIES [ch. xi.

expecting for some time, a serious collision between
Bulgarians and Greeks occurred in the southern theatre
of military operations.

The Bulgarians declared that the Euzones (Greek
territorials) had attacked some Bulgarian garrisons;
the Greeks swore by all the gods of Olympus that the
initiative of the attack came from the Bulgarians.
However that may have been, the collision assumed the
proportions of a real battle, during which the
Bulgarians—as they asserted and firmly believed themselves
—routed an allied force ten times larger than their own.
This account, extremely exaggerated if not completely
untrue, had disastrous consequences a few weeks later
for the Bulgarians themselves : when wrar broke out
between the former Allies the Bulgarian
Commander-in-Chief, General Savov, only left a very small force to
oppose the Greeks, convinced that it would be sufficient
to bar the way to the entire Greek Army. But the
Greeks, superior in numbers and equipment, and
animated by their historic hatred of the Bulgarians, beat
them completely at the first decisive encounters and
obliged them to retreat across the mountains, leaving
their guns and ammunition behind.

But let us return to the "inter-allied" collision of
the month of May. A few days after it had taken place,
the Emperor of Russia went to Berlin to be present
at the marriage of William II.’s daughter with the Duke
of Cumberland (afterwards Grand Duke of Brunswick).
King Constantine profited by this meeting of his two
powerful relations to submit the Bulgarian aggression
to their judgment, and to beg them to put an end to
these very regrettable and dangerous incidents.
Following these complaints from the King of Greece, my
German colleague and I received identical instructions
from Berlin to transmit immediately to King Ferdinand
the warnings and most solemn advice of both Emperors.

I must confess that it was not without a distinct
feeling of pleasure that I insisted on having an audience
of the King, who since the beginning of the war had

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