[53] Not including the large number of prisoners captured during the final retreat in September 1918.
APPENDIX C
GENERAL FRANCHET D’ESPÉREY’S TELEGRAM TO THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT CONCERNING THE ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BULGARIA
This evening a Bulgarian Field Officer presented himself with a flag of truce, asking in the name of General Todoroff, who describes himself as Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Army, for a suspension of hostility for 48 hours to allow for the arrival of two delegates authorized by the Bulgarian Government, the Finance Minister Liapcheff and General Lukoff, Commander of the II Army, who are coming, with the consent of the Tzar Ferdinand, to arrange the conditions for an armistice and eventually for peace.
As this request may be merely a stratagem to permit a re-grouping of forces or the arrival of reinforcements, I have replied as follows:
“The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Allied Armies in the Orient, to H.E. the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Bulgarian Army.
“I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of the letter which you have forwarded to me through the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Army in the Orient. My reply, which I am delivering to the Bulgarian Field Officer bearer of the letter in question, can, in view of the military situation, be only as follows.
“I cannot grant any armistice or suspension of hostilities interrupting the operations now in course of execution. I shall, however, receive with all suitable courtesy, the properly accredited delegates of the Royal Bulgarian Government to whom Your Excellency alludes in your letter. These gentlemen should present themselves before the British lines, accompanied by an officer bearing a flag of truce.”
APPENDIX D
ARMISTICE BETWEEN THE ALLIES AND BULGARIA, SIGNED AT SALONICA ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1918
Military Convention regulating the conditions for the suspension of hostilities between the Allied Powers and Bulgaria.
1. Immediate evacuation, in accordance with an agreement to be concluded, of the territories still occupied (by the Bulgarians) in Greece and Serbia. No cattle, wheat or foodstuffs of any kind shall be removed from these territories. No damage shall be inflicted while evacuating them. The Bulgarian administration shall continue to function in the parts of Bulgaria at present occupied by the Allies.