Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — TELLS WHY THEY QUIT [ARTICLE]

TELLS WHY THEY QUIT

BULGARIAN MINISTER SAYS PEOPLE TRUST WILSON. Asserts Nation Entered the War Under Constraint, After Trying to Keep Out. Washington, Oct. 4. — Stephan Panaretoff, the Bulgarian minister, made public the text of the message from ins government asking the good offices of the United States in obtaining an armistice. The message was delivered to Secretary Lansing last Monday just after news of the signing of the armistice between tlie allies and Bulgaria had reached tlie state department. The text signed by Premier Malindff is as follows: “Kindly transmit to the president of the United States and to the secretary of state, Mr. Lansing, in Washington, the following: ‘“Tlie Bulgarian nation and government Were constrained to enter into tlie general conflict, after they had exhausted all peaceful means possible for coming to an understanding with their neighbors and for realizing their race reunion. This fact Bulgaria reiterated in her note of September 20 last in answer to the peace proposition of Count Burian given out on September 14. “ ‘lf tlie ideas of the president of the United States are to be crowned with success and if their realization is that sought for no more in the old conception of methods of action, but in the path pointed out by the honored president °f the American republic for the establishment of a new order of things guaranteeing freedom and justice among the 'nations, Bulgaria, which feels that Hie ideals and the cause for which' she is struggling find place side by side with the principles in be half of which America intervened in this war, is glad and ready to follow . that path in order to secure the fulfillment of justice desired by het. “ ‘Having this in view, therefore, the Bulgarian government turns to the friendly president of the republic of the United States with the request that its president use its good offices for putting an end to the bloodshed on the front by the conclusion of an armistice, after whjcb fife to follow preliminary negotiations for peace, the final settlement of the Balkan questions being left to be decided in the general peace conference.’ ”