Bulgarian
delegates were General Lonkhoff, commander of the Bulgarian Second Army,
M. Liapcheff, Finance Minister, and M. Radeff, a former member of the
Bulgarian Cabinet.

On the evening of the 29th an armistice was signed. The terms of the
surrender were approved by the Entente governments, and hostilities
ceased at noon September 30th. The terms of the armistice were as
follows:

Bulgaria agrees to evacuate all the territory she now occupies in Greece
and Serbia; to demobilize her army immediately and surrender all means
of transport to the Allies. Bulgaria also will surrender her boats and
control of navigation on the Danube, and concede to the Allies free
passage through Bulgaria for the development of military operations. All
Bulgarian arms and ammunition are to be stored under the control of the
Allies, to whom is conceded the right to occupy all important strategic
points. The military occupation of Bulgaria will be entrusted to
British, French and Italian forces, and the evacuated portions of Greece
and Serbia, respectively, to Greek and Serbian troops.

This armistice meant a complete military surrender, and Bulgaria ceased
to be a belligerent. All questions of territorial rearrangement in the
Balkans were purposely omitted from the Convention. The Allies made no
stipulation concerning King Ferdinand, his position being considered an
internal matter, one for the Bulgarians themselves to deal with. The
armistice was to remain in operation until the final general peace was
concluded.

The request of Bulgaria for an armistice and peace, stunned Germany,
which at that time was living in an atmosphere of political crisis and
military misfortune. The German papers laid much of the blame on the
desperate economic conditions in Bulgaria, which had been made worse by
political strife.

After the Bulgarian collapse the Serbians, with the other Allied troops
who had just captured Uskub, swept northward to drive the remaining
Germans and Austrians out of Serbia and beyond the Danube. On October
13th they captured Nish, thus cutting the famous Orient railroad from
Berlin to Constantinople. German authorities announced that henceforth
trains on this line would run only to the Serbian border.

On October 4th King Ferdinand abdicated his throne in favor of his son
Crown Prince Boris, and left Sofia the same night for Vienna. Before
leaving he issued the following manifesto renouncing the Bulgarian
crown:

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