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196 BULGARIA ATTACKS HER ALLIES [cii. xii.
I begged him to sit down, he threw himself into an
armchair, exclaiming: " M. Nekludoff, we are done for !
What is to be done? Doubtless you already
know-that the Turks have crossed the frontier and are
marching on Adrianople, where we have only 1500
soldiers."
" M. Danev, it is exactly a week ago to the day that
I said to you : 1 you arc undone’’; you refused to believe it
and you only half listened to my earnest advice. What
can I say to you now?" Nevertheless, I comforted
him a little, and I proceeded to investigate with him
the steps to be taken to obtain an armistice as quickly
as possible, to be followed by peace. I was truly filled
with pity for this man at bay describing his country
as completely shipwrecked! As concerning the
advance of the Turks I could as yet say nothing to Danev.
I felt sure that in St. Petersburg we should do all in
our power to stop the Turks, but I also knew that from
Berlin the}7 were being encouraged and urged on.
This was my last conversation with Danev. The
following day the whole Cabinet resigned, and on
the 7th (20th) Jul}*, after a ministerial crisis lasting
five days, Ferdinand entrusted the formation of a new
Cabinet to the Stamboulovists with Radoslavov and
Tontchev at their head. The Foreign Office was given
to Gennadiev, a " Koutzo-Wallachian "-Macedonian by
birth, with a more or less European appearance,
intelligent, cunning, rather agreeable, but unfortunately
labouring under the onus of a formal accusation of
embezzlement. It was clear that by this change of
Government Ferdinand, at this critical moment, thought
he could buy the goodwill of Austria and her
intervention in favour of the Bulgarians, an intervention he
had been impatiently awaiting for some weeks, in fact
ever since the beginning of the Bulgarian reverses.
My French colleague and I attached even more
importance to Ferdinand’s choice: we thought it signified
an intervention by Austria already agreed on ; but we
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