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i9i3] BULGARIANS ATTACK SERBIANS 185
my young colleagues, who had come to the Legation
to write in cipher, told me that they had just met the
military attaches of Austria and Germany (the latter was
a particularly repulsive specimen of the Teutonic race),
and that these worthies, rubbing their hands and
displaying exuberant joy, had told them that the Bulgarians
and Serbians had been fighting since the evening
before, and that there was violent firing all along the
Macedonian front. As one of my two informants was
M. Doubiagsky, who was intelligent and eminently
truthful, I was bound to believe the report he brought,
and I promptly telephoned to M. Danev to demand an
explanation. Danev replied that he knew nothing for
certain, but that he had heard something about an
incident between the Serbians and Bulgarians, and that
at the moment he was busy talking to the Palace, and
to the Minister for War, in order to arrive at what had
actually happened. Two hours later, when the rumours
had been confirmed through other sources, I telephoned
to Danev, and entreated him most earnestly to take
immediate steps to stop the firing on the Macedonian
front. Towards five o’clock, I went to see him to get
news, and I reiterated my entreaties that he should do
all in his power to stop the firing. Danev seemed very
much upset, and avoided looking me in the face; he
assured me that wThat had occurred was not serious,
and that the military authorities would take all
necessary measures to settle amicably the
"misunderstanding" which had arisen between the Bulgarian and
Serbian troops.
However, by the evening the whole town knew
that Bulgarians and Serbians were fighting on the
Bregalnitza, and telegrams arrived simultaneously from
Salonika saying that there also the Bulgarians had been
attacked. I realised that events were taking a disastrous
turn, and I ordered my portmanteaux to be unpacked.
But I was still far from suspecting that the Bulgarians
alone were guilty of the bloodshed.
The next day—Tuesday morning—Danev came to
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