War of the Stray Dog News: Greece invades Bulgaria, occupying posts and shelling villages (well, at least one village). Greece, claiming Bulgaria attacked a Greek border post, demands an indemnity of 6,000,000 drachmas, which is the equivalent of some money. The Treaty of Neuilly (1919) allows Bulgaria only a tiny army, which is consequently ordered to withdraw and offer no resistance. Bulgaria calls on the League of Nations to tell Greece to knock it off.
No mention of the “stray dog” thing in the NYT yet.
Gen. John Charteris’s admission that he made up the thing about Germans rendering their dead soldiers is “received in official circles with great surprise.” Performative naïveté. The Evening Standard worries that it will “discredit all the official British propaganda, present past and future.”
Mussolini is cheesed off that Belgian Foreign Minister Emile Vandervelde snubbed him at Locarno. The Duck’s newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia says while the Russian Bolsheviks maintain “absolutely correct diplomatic demeanor,” Social Democrats are “hooligan[s] in diplomacy.”
"No mention of the “stray dog” thing in the NYT yet." That's surprising. It did hit the front page in the two Casper Wyoming papers: https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2025/10/friday-october-23-1925-stray-dog-beer.html
ReplyDeleteI meant the actual dog who supposedly sparked off this war but which doesn't rate a mention in this day's newspaper or any to come.
ReplyDeleteOops, sorry. Well, I for one, would have liked to have known the name of the dog.
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