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234 THE PEACE OF BUKHAREST [chap. xiii.
into Austria, and causing war to break out before
Russia had got on with her armaments.
The fortnight that the negotiations of the Peace of
Bukharest lasted as well as the succeeding days were a
troublous and critical time for the capital of Bulgaria.
The reservists returning from the front were hurriedly
taken by railway lines wThich crossed at Sofia, and they
were often guilty of undisciplined and disorderly conduct
on the way. One of these skirmishes occurring at the
station of Sofia nearly took a serious turn. Luckily
most of the reservists were so glad to return to their
fields, their vineyards and their live-stock that they
became docile at once when the train that was to take
them back to their "home" was ready for them.
In Sofia itself one felt that the public was in a state
of ferment, exasperation even : on one side against the
King and on the other against Danev, who at the moment
was looked on as the chief culprit in the troubles which
had befallen Bulgaria. For a few days it was to be
feared that the crowd might gather round the ex-Prime
Minister’s house and attack him. Night and day the
police guarded this house, which seemed to have been
deserted by every one. I thought it my duty—just at
this dreadful time—to call on the wretched Danev.
He appeared to have gone all to pieces and it was
piteous to see him. The gossip in town was that he
had attempted to commit suicide, but that his servants
had stopped him in time. Ferdinand, of course, was in a
terrible state of anguish and always had motor cars in
readiness for his instant flight from Sofia. However,
gradually the state of ferment calmed down, and when I
left Sofia at the beginning of October the King had
already left for his Hungarian property.
In Russia much surprise was felt that the defeats
and disasters of Bulgaria should not have served as
the signal for the downfall of Ferdinand. The fact
that after all that had occurred, he had calmly remained
at the head of the country made some—and the most
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