To the Bulgarians, if they have any power of thinking
left, their defeat here must appear of the blackest ill-omen. If they were wise they would even now throw over the worthless monarch who has made them tread the dark path that leads to misery and destruc- tion and would retrace theft steps ; but there is practically no hope of their doing this. Their Turkish conquerors taught them to use the drag of fatalism, and they cannot now be expected to save themselves by a bold remedy. They will go to their doom in dour despair. We are sincerely sorry, for the Bulgarians had high quali- ties ; but no nation ever more deliberately cut its own throat. The strategic possibilities opened up by the conquest of Monastir cannot be discussed in public. We can only express the hope that the Allies are in sufficient strength to make use of them.
