by one the victims crouched on the ground. The captain turned again to
his troopers. 'Start work,' was the order he gave. The infantry guards,
still keeping a circle to drive back any who might try to flee, drew off
a little to give more room, and passing through the intervals of their
line, the Bulgar cavalry rode in among the kneeling throng of prisoners
at a canter. With yells of cruel delight they pushed to and fro,
slashing and thrusting at the unarmed victims. Some of the Serbians
tried to seize the dripping sabre blades in their hands. An arm slashed
off at the shoulder would fall from their bodies. Others, tearing off
the bandages that blindfolded them, attempted to unhorse their
executioners, gripping them by the boot to throw them out of the saddle.
But even the 300, though brave, could do nothing against eighty armed
men.

"I could see the living trying to save themselves, crawling under the
little heaps of dead. Others rushed towards the line of infantry,
surrounding them, as if to break through to safety, but the foot
soldiers, intoxicated by the sight of the deliberate bloodshed going on
before their eyes, ran to meet them with their bayonets, and thrust
them through and through again with savage cries. 'We are doing this in
charity,' shouted some of the Bulgarians. 'We have no bread to feed you,
so if we spared you it would be to die of hunger.' The massacre went on
for half an hour. At the end of that time there was little left to kill,
and the troopers were tired of cutting and thrusting. A few of them
dismounted, and, sword in hand, walked here and there among the bleeding
groups of dead, pricking them to see if any still lived. Some, though
badly wounded, were still alive, but the Bulgarian captain did not give
time for them all to be finished off, and at his orders the whole pile
of murdered prisoners, whether breathing or extinct, were pushed by the
infantry into the grave dug earlier in the afternoon, and earth
shovelled at once on top of them." [4]

"England betrayed the White Race!" So exclaimed the other day Herr
Dernburg, the former German minister for the colonies. Why? Because
England mobilised all the races, including the black and yellow,
Negroes, Indians, Maoris and Japanese, against the Germans. Herr
Dernburg thinks that England has very much damaged European civilisation
by so doing. That is a very curious conception of the present world
situation. I could reply to Herr Dernburg's obj