Bulgaria is not a neutral country, but a military zone, and it is inadmissible that we should not pass through it.”[44] The Bulgarian delegates, duly authorized by their Government, accepted all the conditions imposed on them by the Armistice. They only raised some difficulties over the occupation of Bulgarian territory by the Serbs and Greeks (one of the secret clauses of the Armistice gave the Allies the right to occupy certain areas in the interior of Bulgaria), but General Franchet d’Espérey waived aside these objections, saying that the Entente was a group of peoples, great and small, but all free, whereas in the enemy Alliance Germany was the mistress and the others were her vassals. Therefore the Greeks and Serbs should be able to take part in the occupation of Bulgaria like the other Allies. However, the Prince Regent of Serbia, having heard that some of his Generals were insisting on being allowed to occupy Bulgarian territory, in order to satisfy their national pride and avenge the persecutions inflicted on Serbia by the Bulgarians, telegraphed to the Commander-in-Chief that he preferred to waive this right in order not to embitter relations between Serbia and Bulgaria still more; he wished, on the contrary, to contribute to the pacification of the Balkans. M. Venizelos made a similar pronouncement. The decision was certainly a wise one; reprisals and acts of revenge were thus avoided, for the Serbs and Greeks, if they had been in occupation of the land of the hated enemy, would not have been able to restrain themselves. The Armistice provided:-- (1) The immediate evacuation of the territories still occupied by the Bulgarians in Serbian and Greek Macedonia; (2) The immediate demobilization of the whole Bulgarian Army, except 3 infantry divisions and 4 cavalry regiments for the defence of the Turkish frontier and the Dobrugia, and for guarding the railways; (3) The arms and other material of the demobilized units to be stored in places to be subsequently determined, under Allied control; (4) All material of the IV Greek Army Corps (which had surrendered to Germany), and was still in Bulgaria, to be handed over to Greece; (5) The Bulgarian troops to the west of the meridian of Uskub were to surrender as prisoners of war; (6) The Allies had the right to use all Bulgarian prisoners of war until peace was signed, but Bulgaria must hand over to the Allied authorities all Allied prisoners and deported civilians without reciprocity; (7) The troops and diplomatic and consular representatives of Germany and Austria must leave Bulgaria within four weeks.[45]