nople
through Russian influence. Of the Macedonian question this paper
said:

Bulgarians expect that Russia will get for them Macedonia
Thrace, and Dobrudja, to reward their honest labors. Alas,
they must learn that not every day, but every hour,
Macedonia is receding from their grasp. For Russia the
Macedonian question hardly exists. If Macedonia finds it
hard to be under heroic and benevolent Serbia, what would
become of her on the day when she should fall into the hands
of Bulgaria? And should we Russians, in order to assure
Macedonia such a future, grieve now our dear ally Serbia?

The semi-official Novoye Vremya of Petrograd commented on May 27, on
the statement of the Bulgarian Premier Radoslavoff published in
Vienna, that Bulgaria cannot engage to intervene without a formal
treaty, a policy, it believes, that says but one thing, namely: "You
Russians tricked us Bulgarians once; you shall not trick us again."
This attitude of Bulgaria shows, the Novoye Vremya thinks, "how
thick-headed and insensate its people are." The Birjevaja Viedomosti,
a standpat Russian daily of Petrograd, on May 23 warned Serbia that,
whereas the war began in her behalf and on her account rivers of blood
are flowing, her complaints of the allotment of Dalmatia to Italy
should not "assert principles which have nothing to do with
actualities." The same newspaper says of the whole Balkan situation:

The German policy of von Buelow, having failed in Rome, is
courting failure in Bucharest. In fact, all the German
promises to Rumania seem to go no further than sharpening
the Rumanian appetite for Russian Bessarabia, while holding
out as a last bait the cession of a small parcel of
Bukowina--supposing the Hungarians never consent to yielding
Transylvania to Rumania.

On the other hand, Germany promises Bulgaria the Turkish
province of Thrace and Serbian and Greek Macedonia; but
these compensations have as much value as the cessions of
Corsica and Nice and Tunis in the early days of the war.

But Germany cannot give to Bulgaria Serbian Macedonia so long as the
Austrian armies are not masters of the whole of Serbia; she cannot
give her Thrace because Turkey objects to such cession, and Turkey is
her ally; and, finally, she cannot urge Greece too closely to cede
Cavalla to Bulgaria, because such a pressure may bring a contrary
result, i.e. make