Bulgarians Grateful.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 28, 1913:
Appreciate Gen. Miles's Defense of Their Country.
To the Editor of The New York Times:
    In the name of the Bulgarian colony in this city, permit me to express to you my deepest gratitude for publishing the dispatch of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, the distinguished American soldier.
    The Bulgarian people have, for very obvious reasons, been maligned by the Greeks, and no one has had enough courage, in the face of the numerous accounts of alleged Bulgarian atrocities, to come to our defense. A certain New York newspaper even went so far as to call the Bulgarian King "arch-murderer," and the Bulgarian people "bloodthirsty barbarians."
    Gen. Miles's declaration comes at this time to refute the charges made against Bulgaria and her people. King Constantine, who is naturally prejudiced in favor of Greece and against Bulgaria, recited accounts of Bulgarian atrocities. Gen. Miles, an American, and therefore unprejudiced, denies the King's accusations. Will the American public believe an impartial American or an interested monarch?
            R. J. SETCHANOVE.
            New York, July 25, 1913.