It was a humble infraction , but one that occurred at an inopportune time as the situation between Greece and Bulgaria in the 20thcentury was tense . They had been squawk over who let to take ownership of Macedonia , which is where the peculiar narration of theWar Of The Stray Dogbegins .
It was October 1925 , and a Grecian soldier was stationed at the edge between Bulgaria and Macedonia . As one version of the chronicle goes , disaster struck when his wiener run off in the direction of Bulgarian territory , cross from Macedonia into the townspeople of Petrich and prompting the soldier to follow wooing . He chase the dog across enemy melody and was promptly shot by the opponent for breaching Bulgarian territory .
Like many tales of old , the details are light , and some say that the infraction actually pass off due to Bulgarians crossing the mete and shooting two Greek soldiers . According to the 1925 newspaperThe Barrier Miner , whatever went down leave the Hellenic side outraged as they put forward an ultimatum , submit if their demand were n’t quickly met , they would advance into Bulgaria and engross Petrich .
More bloodshed ensued , by which decimal point the League Of Nations waded in to express that Greece was wrong to have fill the Bulgarian townsfolk . Only after more than 50 people had died did they abide by with the ruling , withdrawing their force and paying a mulct of £ 45,000 , say Dr Stavros Boinodiris in his bookAndros Odyssey : Liberation .
A war of a most funny descent , but it would only be one of the strangest of its clip for a mere seven age before an even weird conflict kicked off on the other side of the planet . When20,000 emusstormed western Australia as part of their genteelness time of year activities , they became a menace for which the Australian Minister of Defense was not prepared . According to a newspaperreport , the “ emus presently begin to improve their own understanding of the scientific discipline of warfare . ”
Going after emus with simple machine hitman and fighting humans over dog walks all might seem to be push it when it come to the set phrase “ all is fairish in love and war , ” but if you go back even further than the 1900s , things get much worse . Fromscorpion turkey to weaponize sick donkeys , ancient warfare stimulate really unearthly .
