devastated a northern district of Serbia, the
district of Drina, in such a way that only the Bulgars could compete
with them. Henri Barby, the French publicist, has visited this district
after the invasion. His description of the Magyar atrocities and the
original pictures taken on the spot of the crimes committed make one
ashamed to be the contemporary of such a nation.

We could reply to the Magyar accusations: Not so much is it that Serbia
has been making a propaganda to liberate her brothers from your yoke, as
that they themselves have made this propaganda. Before the Crown Prince
was killed in Sarajevo there were several outbursts in Agram on the Bans
of Croatia, who were Magyar agents and tyrants just as Gesler was in
Switzerland many hundred years ago. All the outbursts and all the
tragi-comic high trials in Croatia, Bosnia and Dalmatia, all the
successes of the Hapsburg Monarchy in the south and all the protests
prove two things:

First, that the Southern Slavs, Serbia's brothers, have suffered and
have been abased very much by the Magyar's brutal rule, and;

Second, that they have grown to be free and to live independently from a
nation which showed itself very inferior in many respects to the nation
ruled by it.

The Bulgars even mocked the Serbs for allying themselves with the
"degenerate" French, with the "faithless traders," the English, and with
the "barbarians," the Russians. They mocked us that we have not been
"real" politicians, that we have been stupid and could not foresee the
German victory. They accused us even in their declaration of war of
being "the felons" who caused the "world's conflagration." And they
regarded as their mission to rise "in the name of civilisation" to
punish "a criminal nation."

We Serbs have nothing to reply to this Bulgar mockery, since they
distinctly claimed that they are not Slavs but Mongols; since they
condemned the English, French and Russian civilisations, and declared
themselves to be the champions of the true civilisation. I will tell you
only how they fulfilled their "mission" in defending the human
civilisation from the Serbs. I will not speak myself, but I will repeat
what a well-known English gentleman reported from Salonica:

"About five o'clock in the afternoon, while we still waited for orders
where to take our guns, we saw coming out of the town towards us a long,
straggling procession of Serbian soldier prisoners, about 300,
surrounded by a strong