In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 68, 20 July 1915, Page 5

In the Balkans

THE ATTITUDE OF GREECE.

United Press Association. Athens, July IS, M. V enizelos, addressing the Liberal Party, said that the Government, with a view to keeping power, was ignoring public opinion and hiding behind the Crown’s prerogatives, and had postponed the meeting of Parli.imeht. When the King had recovered he would clear up the situation, and end the persistent rumours of a coup d’etat. BULGARIA AND TURKEY. United Press Association. Sofia. July 19. A Ministerial order definitely suspends railway communication with Turkey.

The Sofia correspondent of “Near East,” w riting on May 21, assertts: —

“I learn from an authoritative source that the Bulgarian demands are as follow:—(1) The unconditional restoration to her of—(a) the Uncontested Zone of Macedonia, as specified in the Serbo-Bulgarian Treaty of 1912.

and (h) of the Dohrnja. with the exception of Silistria. according to the St. Petersburg conference; (2) the Enos-Midea frontier, according to the Treaty of London of 1913; (3) the possession of Kavalla. Drama. Seres. Vodena, Fiorina, Yenidj© Vardar. and Kastoria; and (4) the necessary financial support. I understand that the Bulgarian Government has declared that if the fulfilment of these demands is guaranteed, witthout any conditions attached regarding Senna's receiving an nutlet in the Adriatic, and if the Entente Powers will guarantee her against attack hy Greece or Ronmania whilst her army is engaged against Turkey, Bulgaria will at once mobilise her army and use it against Turkey as the ally of the Entente. Bulgaria, it is explained, has no objection whatever to Serbia’s obtaining a port on the Adriatic if she can do so, but tins must not be made a condition of Bulgaria’s receiving

Serbian Macedonia (the uiicuntested Zone). It is generally believed here that if the Mulgarian demands are satisfied, and she takes part in the fighting, the end of the great Kumpeau war will be very near.