TURKEY AND BULGARIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2542, 17 August 1915, Page 5

TURKEY AND BULGARIA

INSPIRED DISCLOSURES (Rec. August 16, 9.35 p.m.) - Paris, August 15. The "Echo de Paris," in an inspired note, says: "The Turco-Bulgarian pourparlers, intended to render Bulgaria immobile by raising hopes of tho cession of the Mustapha Pasha-Adriauople-De-deagatch railway, have been broken off. , Moreover the realisation of the Bulgarian loan, which the German ■ banks declared had been subscribed, is meeting with serious. difficulties." . . THE NATIONAL REGISTER WOMEN AS ENUMERATORS. (Rec. August 10, 10.10 p.m.) London, August 16. One hundred thousand voluntary helpers are collecting on Monday tho rcgistration, forms for the City of London district, wlicih lias been subdivided into hundreds of enumeration districts. Tho women have proved skilful enumerators. Many Irishmen, anxious to avoid registration, quitted Clyde ports amid demonstrative taunts" and jeers. Some intending steamer passengers wero hustled, and returned to the trains. BOER AND BRITON IN UNITY SPEECH BY GENERAL SMUTS. (Rec. August 15, 9.35 p.m.) Johannesburg, August 15. General Smuts (Union Defence Minister), addressing the South , African Party, denounced the "two-stream ; policy," of which the Transvaal had an ; experience so bitter prior to the Boer | War, and contrasted it "with the success 1 of the Boer and the Briton., Through their unity in German South-West Africa, emphasising tho actual prospect 1 of tho Union doubling itself. "If con- 1 tinned upon that road," he said, "tho J Union's northern boundaries will not bo J where they are. We will bequeath our > children a huge country in which to do- ! velop a typo for themselves; and form a 1 people dostined to be a true civilising < agency."- !