not the Messrs. Buxton, but the priest of the
Bulgarian village of Chuprenia, who told me that he held that one might
pray to God for the success of the Bulgarian arms, without saying
whether they were in the right or in the wrong. After the end of the war
this priest sent a telegram, which was perhaps a little indiscreet,
advocating that the Bulgarian people should join in Yugoslavia.

To prevent the Southern Slavs being torn by internal strife, it is
necessary between Serbia and Bulgaria that one of them should for a time
be paramount. We may be confident that Serbia will not abuse her
position. In fact it is the opinion of a Roumanian lady at Monastir that
the Serbs were uncommonly rash in taking into their service so many who
once had called themselves Bulgars and now maintain that they are Serbs.
But Serbia has become relatively so strong that she can be indulgent.
She will even satisfy that Bulgarian professor who is said to have
discussed the Macedonian question with the British military attache.

The attache suggested a division between Serbia and Bulgaria.

"No," said the professor; "let the country remain a whole, like the
child before Solomon."

"Would you be satisfied?" asked the attache, "if this question were now
decided once and for all?"

"Yes," said the professor, "if the judge be another Solomon."

Among the Bulgars who are looking forward to the day when their country
will, in some form or other, join Yugoslavia, there are some who suggest
that when comparative tranquillity has been assured upon the Macedonian
frontiers (that is to say, between Macedonia and the Albanians) it would
be as well to garrison the province with Croatian regiments, pending
the employment in their own country of Macedonian troops. Gradually the
time will come when, as one of the units of the Yugoslav State,
Macedonia will enjoy the same amount of Home Rule as the other
provinces. She will then, maybe, decide for herself such matters as the
preservation of her dialects, local administration, police, etc.

* * * * *

Once on the banks of the Danube when I was going to sail from one of
these countries to her neighbour with whom she had recently been at war,
and some of the inhabitants had kindly come to see me off, I was
presented, amongst other things, with an old gentleman's good wishes,
which he had taken the trouble to express in French and in verse. I
believe that he recited them, but