CHAPTER III

IN THE BALKANS 48

I Leave Vienna--Gay Bucharest--The Bandmaster’s Indiscretion--“_À bas les allemands!_”--Roumania Eager for War--German Devices--An English Cigarette--A Terrible Journey--The Spoils of War--The Wily German--Bulgarian Poverty Under the Germans--Austrian Satisfaction over the Serbian Victories--Compulsion in England--Bulgarian Anxiety about the Attitude of Greece--The German Language in Bulgaria.