GERMAN DOMINATION.

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

GERMAN DOMINATION.

Cnitkd Fhess Association. Petrogfad, October 4. Russia does not expect Bulgaria to comply with the Allies' demands. Ferdinand's Government is so tied hand and foot to Austro-Germany that there is little likelihood <>i' compliance. German secret ngent.s are watching M. Radoslavoff'fv bouse with a view to preventing his vacillating at the last moment. All orders to the Bulgarian Ministry of War are submitted to the sanction ol German officers. The Aus-tro-German Legations are fortified as a precaution to a possible outbreak. A BULGARIAN DENIAL. (Beecived 8.130 a.m) London. October -I. A Bulgarian official message on the 30th denies the arrival of German officers, and states that none are helping in the administration of the railways or the army. M. Radoslavoff's political position for the past two years is unshaken. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Paris. October 3. Lc Temps' Sofia correspondent has reported that' Bulgaria, with the Central Powers' assistance is .endeavoring to arrange an understanding with Roumania and Greece. The Opposition is convinced that pourparlers will fail, as both Roumania and Greece are openly and entirely in favor of the Allies. According to Sofia newspapers, the Austro-German Ministers at Bucharest informed the King at Bratiano that they will attack Roumania the moment she orders general mobilisation. Numbers of Bulgarian deserters have taken refuge in Roumania, including eight hundred from the Calai'at region, who declare that they will not fight against Russia. Bugarian women and children are hindering the men joining the colors, and the gulf between the people and the official classes is increasing. • . London, October .'l. Germanophile newspapers in Greece urge Germany to recommend Bulgaria to demobilise in order to prepare the wav for demobilisation in Greece.

The Greek Government has ordered Greek .steamers to complete their charters:iOfd' proceed "direct;'to the "Piraeus within .six days. . . , t , 1 ' ' " \l)\ H Qet>perj«l. \\ There have arrived at Herald ia forty thousand Greek refugees from Thrace, in a pitiable condition. The Turks, evacuating'the' district given-" to 'Bnlga ria. systematica I ly, jflUftgf A * .QK>%, tian houses and outraged the women.' Russia's ultimatum has caused , intense excitement. M. Veni/.elos has arrived at Salonika. The Greek war spirit has increased. Rome, October 3. 11 Gorriere della Sera's Petrograd correspondent says that representatives'ol the Quadruple Entente pointed'outj to M. Radislavofl' that I since Colonel' Nassau 1 , who ' is considered a specialist in intrigue, ' has been the German military representative at Sofia. German officers had been distributed/ among various (Bulgarian regiments and batteries. These instructions have created am incident likely to precipitate a conflict between Bulgarian and Serbian troops.. Amsterdam. October 3. Sir E. Grey's statement on the Balkan situation has not yet been published' in Germany. Paris, October I. The French believe that the Bulgarian peasantry are willing to fight Serbia, against whom they nourish a grudge since 1913, but will -refuse to raise a hand against their Russian liberators, who are likely to land forces oil the shores of the Black Sea.l Meanwhile Bulgaria is concentrating troops for the purpose of isolating Roumania and Serbia, and opening the way for war stores for Constantinople. The Hamburger Xaehrichten advises that Serbia is of the same blood as Bulgaria, and by withdrawing troops and allowing goods to be sent to Turkey meanwhile, would be rectifying the wrong done to Bulgaria in 1913. London, October I. King Ferdinand, recently conversing with a diplomatist, described his regal conditio!}. "I am like a blind man. ' he said, "running with a lighted torch among haystacks, and whichever side 1 turn I\ must set fire, to something.'' Diplomatic circles point out that Russia's ultimatum proves that the blind man's torch has set his own haystack afire. The authorities at Athens have understood for some days that the Central Powers had fixed that hostilities should begin during the last fortnight in October, and, Russia has chosen to hasten the decision,

It is rumored at Rome that all the Powers of the Entente prepared a similar ultimatum to that of Russia, requiring Bulgaria to explain her attitude, but Bulgaria professed toJ>e debating tlie Entente's offers until the very last, and encouraging the friends oi' Britain to desperate efforts to prevent a rupture. Mi- Noel Buxton, in an interview, said the Entente had promised territory east of Yardar, hut Bulgaria was still in doubt whether she would obtain Monastir and Ochrida. He added that Serbia and Greece must be prevented from taking any action on the frontiers which would precipitate the crisis.