In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 12, 13 September 1915, Page 5

In the Balkans

ON AUSTRIA'S FRONTIERS. United Press Association. Geneva. September 11. Austria has closet! the Swiss and Roumanian frontiers, and troops guard the crossing. This is attributed to secret movements of troops. I THE SILENCE OF GREECE. •' London. September 11. M. Yeiie/.elos, interviewed by a representative of La Petit Parisian, said he intended to preserve a hermetica] silence. "I am endavouring to regain my old path, and we will meet | there. Acts, not words, are now needed, and, above everything, is needed discretion, until October. [ intend to work to re-establish everything in order that harmony may prevail7' j BULGARIA'S NEUTRALITY.; Rotterdam, September 11. 11l the Vossiche Zeitung M. Radostrav'off declares that Bulgaria has not | 'accepted obligations in return for the 'forced Turkish territory, which must be regarded as an indemnity for her neutrality hitherto. Amsterdam, September 10. .'The Bulgarian semi-official journal i Dnevi confirms the statement that J the Turco-Bulgarian treaty was signed on Monday, taking effect on September '2O. Bulgaria gains 1250 kilometres in Thrace. ■: The Bulgarian army on a peace footing numbers 3900 officers and 02.000 men; increased to war strength, 340,[OOO. Bulgaria was created by Treaty of Merlin, 1878, and in 1885 Eastern Roumelia was added to the newlycreated principality. In 1908 the country was declared to be an independent kingdom, the area at that date being 37,202 square miles, with* a population of '4,337,500. In 1012-13 a successful war of the Balkan League against Turkey increased the si':w ; of'the kingdom, but* in August, 1913, a short" campaign against the remaining, members of*, the "> League reduced the.■ acquired sirea.,. and led to the surrender. pt,,ab'put square mjles to Roui.rn.uun-.,. present areal of 'Bulgaria 'is Voout '42,000; square mjles, with a, of al}oitO5".500.000;' !!

aA}J SERBIA THREATENED. ~, '„"' Athens, September 11. Reports from Budapest state that a German attack on Serbia is immenent. , Paris, September 12. The do not dare to attack* Belgrade. Kear-Admiral. .Tjroubridge,. with a party of bluejackets from the Mediterranean fleet, with;big guns, have been making good practice, daily, .for live months past, ancLarfef/how bojnH' barding the trenches,which* the 'Anss ; triah.s'' are on . the op?*' posite s-iide of the • Danube. 1 French also have seveValj guns covering Sejnfin. Moreof 'French aeroplanes,Js projecting Bel--1 grade, and it wrecked three Austrian I machines of the Aviatik type.