OUR ENEMIES IN CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2877, 15 September 1916, Page 5

OUR ENEMIES IN CONFERENCE

MOST IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE WAR MOMENTOUS QUESTIONS FACED I Anstralian-Now Zealand Cable Association. 1 1 Now York, September Hi Dispatches from Berlin dcscribo a most'important field conference at Genoral Headquarters on the Eastern fron fc, which was attended by the Kaiser, Herr Bethmann-Hollweg (Imperial Chancellor), Euver. Pasha ('ftirkish Minister for War), the King and Crown Prince of Bulgaria, and other high dignitaries. It is tho first fietd conference of tho Central Allies since the war. It is understood' that a momentous question is being discussed. Indications from neutral sources suggest that Itu mania's belligerency and tho probability of Grecco entering the war led the Kaieor to call t'he conference, because of the pressing danger that tho German road to Constantinople might shortly be cut, and that Germariyls ambition to mafcb Mesopotamia her principal colonial empire, with tho capital at Bagdad, would have to be abandoned. The Kaiser therefore believed in bringing tho strongest pressure on his allies' to block tho Russian efforts to cross Bulgaria for Constantinople, evon at the expense of permitting Rumania to com plotely conquer Transylvania. ANOTHER THEORY. (Iktiter's Telegram.) Zurich, September 13. Tho conference between the Kaiser, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Von Bethman-Hollweg, Von Jagow, Enrer Pasha, and prominent Austrian military men and politicians, bold at tho Genu an headquarters, is believed to bo concerned with a proposal that Von Hin donburg should command all tho armies ~of tho Quadruple Alliance. (