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SOFIA, Bulgaria.—One of the
principal causes which contributed
I towards the rupture of Bulgaria
; with Germany, was the treatment
; by the latter of the Dobrudja ques
I tion, which robbed Bulgaria of the
| prospect of attaining her national
j aspirations, and the tendency of
i Germany to favor Turkey’s claim
I to the restoration of the strip of
j territory in Thrace, which the Turks
I under German pressure, had ceded
j to Bulgaria in September, 1915, as
| the price of Bulgaria’s co-operation
I in the war.
j When German diplomacy, early in
j September of last year, realized
(that Bulgaria was bent on with
drawing from the war, a serious at
tempt was made to conciliate the
Bulgarian government by the aband
onment of the condominium es
tablished in the northern Dobrudja
and a protocol to this effect was
signed in Berlin between the Cen
tral allies. It was then hoped that
this concession would induce Bul
garia to continue the war, but it
proved to be without success.
The feeling produced both in
Berlin anil Vienna by this develop
ment can be readily imagined. The
former Austro-Hungarian Foreign
Minister Baron Burian, in a con
versation with M. Focheff, the Bul
garian minister in Vienna, was
moved to wrathful indignation and
described M. Malinoff, the Bulgar
ian premier as a traitor.
There is much irritation in Bul
garia over the Dobrudja question.
The Bulgarian government, which,
in its several conversations w’ith
the German-Austrian ministers at
Sofia, decared itself content to re
serve the question of the Dobrudja
settlement by the peace congress,
maintains the same attitude today.
The. government hopes that the fact
that Bulgaria was the first state
to withdraw from the war, and
thus hasten the conclusion of a
general peace, will not be over
looked.
The scarcity of foodstuffs in Bul
garia constitutes a serious problem
for the government, and if supplies
are not soon forthcoming, there is
great danger of a famine. One
cause of this dearth of supplies was
the wholesale and systematic drain
ing of the country’s resources by
the Germans who, instead of rein
forcing the Macedonian front, gar
risoned the interior of Bulgaria
with the sole object of collecting
the produce of the country for des
patch to Germany. When the pres
ent government put an end to this
exportation, the Germans resorted
to the ruse of posting parcels thru
their own field post, and thus prac
tically every German soldier be
came an exporter. The Bulgarians
government was powerless to pre
vent the practice.
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SAN JUAN, Porto Rico.—Loss
of 200 lives and $5,000,000 dam
age to property as the result of the
earthquake shocks here in October
and November, was due chiefly to
the poor construction of buildings
along the west coast of the island,
in the opinion of Henry Fielding
Reid and Stephen Taber, members
of the Seismologjcal commission,
sent by the federal government at
the request of Governor Yager to
investigate and report on the dis
asters.
Shocks of a similar nature huje
occurred in the past in Porto Rico
and may occur again, in the opinion
of these experts, but the possible
loss that may be caused can be
greatly reduced by the erection
of shock-resisting structures, their
report states.
The members of the commission
are noted geologists. Ur. Reid is
from John Hopkins University, Bal
timore; while l)r. Taber is from the
University of South Carolina, at
Columbia, S. C.
The shocks which occurred here,
the |two geologists report, were less
in intensity than that which oc
curred in California in 1906 or the
Charleston earthquake in 1886. In
their report to Governor Yager the
geologists say in part:
“We believe the earthquakes
were due to fractures of the rock
in the northern part of Mona Pass
age not far from the northwestern
part of the island of Porto Rico,
and that the fracture which caused
thy shock of October 11 (the first
of the series) was accompanied by
a small vertical displacement of a
very limited area of the sea bottom,
causing the sea wave which rose
along the shores soon after the
shock. Uisplaccments of this kind
are not uncommon, and portend no
great' disaster to Porto Rico.
“The damage done by the shocks
! was greatest in the western part
of the island and diminished pro
gressively, though not uniformly,
toward the east. On soft alluvial
soiis it was greater than on more
solid formations in the same neigh
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borhood.
“The character of the construc
tion of the buildings was respons
ible for the great destruction
wrought. Well made reinforced
concrete buildings suffered no
serious injury even in the regions
where the shock was strongest.
Woo«len buildings and the small
native huts, by yielding to the'
shock, were not damaged.”
Suggesting types of buildings
capable of resisting Hie shocks, the;
geologists say: Steel frame stmc- •
tures and reinforced concrete build
ings are the strongest; the best!
cement should always be used. 1
Brick houses, where the best ce
ment is used, are fairly strong.;
Wooden houses are entirely safe-:
“All strong earthquakes are fol-!
, lowed by after shocks, which grad
ually 11 it- out in strength and num
ber. I he aftershocks here have
grown infrequent and very lijrht.
There is certainly no special reason
for expecting another strong shock
in the near future."
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