In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 30, 4 October 1915, Page 5

In the Balkans

CREEK WAR CERTAIN. f J 5 NEW ROAD TO CONSTANTINOPLE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN MAY BE ABANDONED. United Pkeus i Association, (Received 11.15 a.m.)>> i i> - « • ■ Paris J October 8. < . tiie Athens correspondent states: For the Greeks war iis' certain. Henceforth the road "to Constantinople will be no longer through the Dardanelles or Gallipoli Peninsula, hut along the Salonika-Dedeagatch railway. BULGARIA'S POSITION. FACING THE.NEW SITUATION. NO POLICY OF ADVENTURE. ,; u, (Received 8.30 a.m.) ' < . I > ! -Sofia-, October 3. .., A. fSemirofficial statement, replying to the French and Russian press', states : Bulgaria mobilised in order to face the new situation and assure her national and future. She treated with nobody, and is hoping still for pacific settlement, while taking her interests inta account. The semi-official journal Narodniprava says: The Government is in nowise following a policy of adventure. The ! country can rest assured it will not adopt any hasty action, and if obliged to make armed intervention it will be only after all-peaceful methods have been exhausted. The Turco-Bulgarian agreenienf was the first fruits of the Government's policy and other successes will follow. SERBIA'S FRIEND. GREECE WANTS NO MISUNDERSTANDING.* (Received 9.45 a.m.) i Amsterdam, October 3.

The Lokal Anzeiger's Athens correspondent say.s that the Greek Government allows it to be clearly understood that they will consider any 'Bulgarian attack on Serbia as an attack on Greece. INTERNAL DISSENSION. FATAL RECRUITING ROW IN EAST ROUMELIA. \ (Kceived 9.45 a.m.) Paris, October 3. Recruits at Tatar Bazardjik came to blows with agents of the military authorities, and several were killed and injured. THE MOBILISATION, ORDER. Rome, October 2. II Corriere Delia Sera states that M. Radoslavoff favored partial mobilisation 'only, but the War Minister and Chief of Staff insisted on general mobilisation. All the old generals, including General Savoff, have been placed on the retired list. * Paris, October 2. Le Temps states that the Entente Ministers at Sofia have notified the Government that the Entente will assist Serbia if Bulgaria attacks her. Le Petit Journal states that Germany lias offered to give Bulgaria Macedonia, Old Serbia, and Albania, with an outlet on the Adriatic. Paris. October 'A. ' The newspaper* state that feus of thousands of Anglo-Fi'cncli troops,

I which will shortly be landed in Macedonia, in the event of King Ferdinand carrying out his aggressive policy, will be the most convincing warning to Bulgaria, and a disagreeable surprise for the Austro-Germans. Athens, October 3, Latest Sofia advices show that Gernp'an'jinfluence is gaining, though the chief agrarian leaders'are opposed to the Oermanophiles and may be able to persuade, the .people., .to,<-oppus& -war, against. Serbia. ROUMANIAN UNREST. , ' " 't V > ~ , ';•■' ■H A Buimiirfest, October '3.- ' ' it is that, the. ba nkg,, j\ t. Varna",' fearing a bombardment, are transferring their coin and securities to Sofia. ,\I. Hratianu. replying to a Parliamentary delegation urging mobilisation, said he disagreed with the opinion that the 4iour had struck for Roumaiiia's entry into the wan It 1 would be unwise to make any declaration'of the situation at present. ;) ►' ' ''" Amsterdam, October 3. . Advices from Cologne state that Austria is sending Rdumania 1 an ultimatum couched in friendly termsj'asking her to allow the transit of \'th uni- ; tions to Turkey. A short time is allowed for 1 an answer, which Germany hopes will be satisfactory]'^ ATTACK ON SERBIA. - • Nish, October 3. Official: Seven enemy aeroplanes on September 29th dropped sixty bombs on Pojarevatz,. killing a civilian and two soldiers. Six aeroplanes on September 13th bombed Kragujevacs. We. downed one, the aviators being burned to death. Pail's, October 3. Le Petit Parisian's Bucharest correspondent says that the Germans have relieved the Austrians on the . first line of the Danube. A German battalion, in attempting to cross the ( Smendria, was entirely destroyed. Seven attempts to cross the Danube in different places were repulsed with heavy losses.