A PLAIN ULTIMATUM TO BULGARIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2584, 5 October 1915, Page 7

A PLAIN ULTIMATUM TO BULGARIA

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO CHOOSE

• RUSSIA INSISTS ON DISMISSAL OF AUSTRO'

GERMAN OFFICERS

By TelezrapTi—Press Aesociation-Oopyrlelil

New York, October 3. A Reuter message from Petrograd states that tho Russian Minister at Sofia (Bulgaria) has been ordered to depart unless Bulgaria within twentyfour hours breaks with the Germanic Powers and dismisses the Austrian and German officers now in Bulgaria,

\ . ■ (Rec. October i, 10.40 p.m.) • Rome, Ootober 4. All the Powers oPthe Entente group have prepared .a similar ultimatum requiring Bulgaria to explain her attitude. Bulgaria professes that she is debating the Entento's offers until the very ,;last moment, encouraging her friends in Britain to desperate efforts to prevent a rupture. . Mr. Noel Buxton (British M.P.)._ interviewed, said that tlie Entente had promised Bulgaria, territory cast of Vardar, but Bulgaria was still in doubt whether to obtain Monastir and Oehrida. Ho added that Serbia and Greece must he prevented from'Uaking action on the frontiers, which would precipitate a crisis. ' ... TEXT OF THE RUSSIAN NOTE Petrograd, October 3. The Russian Minister a't Sofia has been instructed to hand M. RadoslavofF (the Bulgarian Premier) tho following Note:— _ ■■ "Events are taking place in Bulgaria which give ovidenee or King Ferdinand's Government's definite decision to place the fate of his country in Germany's hands. The presenco'of German and Austrian officers at the Bulgarian Ministry for War, and on tho Staffs of the Army, and also the concentration of troops bordering on Sorbin, and ' the extensive financial support accepted from our enemies, leavA no doubt rts to the object of Bulgaria's military prepaiations. oon niany occasions- has warned M. RadoslavofF that any hostile act against Serbia would bo considered as directed against themselves. The facts contradict tho assurances which M. Radoslavof gave in reply to those warnings. Russia, which is bound to Bulgaria by the imperishable,■•memory of h6r liberation from the Turkish yoke, cannot sanction these preparations for a fratricidal aggression against the Slav and Allied peoples. "Therefore, the Russian Minister will leave unless -Bulgaria openly breaks with tho enemies of Slavdom within twmty.fpur hours, aliu dismisses the officers belonging to tho enemies of the Eutentu.'?