“I congratulate you with all my heart, my dear General, and I beg you to inform them all of the deep homage of my admiration and of that of my whole army. I am really heart-broken, my dear General and dear comrade-in-arms, that a terrible accident, impossible to foresee and to prevent, should have obliged you to evacuate the positions captured so gallantly and at such cost. I deeply regret with you the death of all the dear and gallant comrades-in-arms who have so heroically fallen on the soil of my Fatherland, and I bow my head with the most profound respect before their sublime self-sacrifice, before their proud contempt of death in the struggle for the Great Common Cause. If you have had to abandon temporarily the positions occupied, it is a material loss easy to make good with troops such as yours. The great moral result so brilliantly obtained yesterday by your intrepid troops remains intact. “Happy and proud to fight by your side, I beg you, my dear General, to accept the assurances of my high consideration and of my best sentiments. (_Signed_) “MICHICH.” APPENDIX B LOSSES OF THE BELLIGERENTS DURING THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN Killed Wounded Prisoners Missing French[50] 20,000 --- --- --- British 9,800 16,914 --- 2,642 Italians 2,841 5,353 --- --- Serbs[51] 45,000 133,000 70,423 82,535 Greeks 5,000 21,000 --- 1,000 Bulgarians 63,000[52] 152,390 10,623[53] 13,729 [50] Including men who died of disease and missing; no more detailed figures for the French Army are available. [51] Including losses in operations before the Macedonian campaign. [52] Including 888 accidentally killed and 13,198 died of wounds. [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.