In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 5 October 1915, Page 5

In the Balkans

UNDER MARTIAL LAW, SOFIA BEING TEUTQNISED. "FOOLING THE PUBLIC." ■*•»•-. (Jnjii;e]) JPbess .association. (Received Noon). ~ ■ i r Paris, October 4. •Le Temps states:. i Sofia is practically under niartiai law., The price of bread lias been fixed and meetings have been prohibited. The Municipal /'"Council has decided to name three of the principal Sofia squares. Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna, while German and Bulgarian songs are sung in the cafes. . Payments* ail" 'jiyirks, and there are many other Teutoiiising signs apparent. Tlie Petit Pari.^iehe'reports a'-tra-veller from Bulgaria as saying that fchq rulers of Sofia are fooling the public. One ' day they 1 are' issuing proclamations' that the army is going to march against Turkey, and the next day proclaiming that the mobilisations are against Vienna. Soldiers declare they will not light against their old Russian comrades. .Most of the troops lack enthusiasm. It is reported that Germany us allowing Bulgaria a monthly indemnity of fifty million marks. ADVANCING ON SERBIA. 250,000 TROOPS UNDER MACKENSEN. (Received 8.80 a.m.) Bucharest, October 4. A traveller from Hungary reports that a quarter of a million troops with two thousand guns are advancing towards Serbia under General Mackenseh*s command. ~y% THE MINISTRY'S POSITION. ARTILLERY MOVES TOWARDS SERBIA. MACKENSEN'S HEADQUARTERS AT VERSECZ. (Received 12.25 p.m.) . Bucharest, October 4. The Bulgarian War Ministry lutve to submit all orders for "the Austrian and German officers' approval. A correspondent of the newspaper Epoca states that the Austro-Gernnm artillery , moving towards Serbia includes seventeen-inch guns. It is expected General Mackensen will esj tablish his headquarters at Versecd fifty miles north-east of Belgrade.

NEWS FROM ATHENS. EVENTS TAKE THEIR COURSE. CREEK SEIZURE OF MACEDON- -. 0 lAN RAILWAYS. GERMAN AIRMEN AT SOFIA. SKILLED LABORERS LEAVE CONSTANTINOPLE. (Received 12.2-1 p.m. The Government lias taken possession oi' three railway line* in Macedonia, whereof two were worked by f Austrian companies and oiit.. by a French company. (Jreen newspapers refer in moderate

, tone to the proposed landing at SaloInika. It is generally realised that it will lie'best to, passively let events take their course in view of the Allies' consistently .friendly interest in Greece. ; , I Six German aviatprs arrived, at Sofia'.. ■■■ ~ ~~, ~, ~ ~. i 'Skilled laborers, are . leaving ( Constantinople in groups for Bulgaria. BULGARIA'S POSITON. RUSSIA'S ULTIMATUM. Petrograd, October .'l. The Russian Minister at Sofia lias been instructed to band M; RadOslavoff the following Note: \"The events now taking place ill Bulgaria 1 give evidence 'of King Ferdinand's and the Government's definite decision to place the fate of its country in Germany's hands. The presence of German and Austrian'officers- at the Ministry of War and on the staffs of the army', also the concentration of troops bordering'ofi Set* bia, anil the financial support accepted 'fl'jfra our enemies, leave no doubt that the object of .Bulgaria's military preparations is 1 to enter the war. AVe. on niany occasions, have warned M. Radosilavoff that a hostile act against Serbia would be considered as directed against ourselves. The facts contradict the assurances which M. Radosiavoff gave in reply to these warnings. Russia) which is bound to Bulgaria by the imperishable memory of her liberation from the Turkish yoke, cannot sanction these preparations for fratricidal aggression against the Slavs and, the Allied peoples. Therefore, the Russian Minister will leave •unless Bulgaria openly breaks with the enemies of Slavdom within tweiityI'our hours, and dismisses officers belonging to the enemies of the Entente. TROOPS ON iSERBIAN FRONTIER. Sofia, October 4. Bulgaria's mobilisation is complete, and 350,000 men, field regiments and artillery, have been sent to the Serbian frontier. WAITING FOR THURSDAY. Petrograd, October I. Newspapers approve of Russia's stern protest to Bulgaria, and are jf (minion that the interests of the country are being overruled by an ambitious German ruler and a few misguided generals. It is reported that the Austro-Ger-inan atetack on Serbia is now fixed for Thursday. EXULTATION IN TURKEY. The Young Turks are exultant at Bulgaria's mobilisation. Enver Pasha, presiding at a meeting of the Committee, said that the Turko-German network from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf was now assured.