THROUGH ITALIAN SPECTACLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 32, 6 October 1915, Page 5

THROUGH ITALIAN SPECTACLES.

Paris. October 1. Le Matin’s Home correspondent states that the announcement that the | landing of Allied troops at Salonika i [lias been definitely decided on has created extreme satisfaction in Italy, (where the prospect of so turbulent a Power as Bulgaria establishing itself : in the Adriatic could not leave Italy indifferent. Rome. October 4. Advices from Bucharest report that there is the greatest activity in Honmauia.. and precautionary military measures on all frontiers. | II Secolo states that the Roumanian Government is greatly impressed with j (the possibility of hundreds of thousands of the Entente armies landing in (the Balkans. THE TURCO-BULCARIAN AGREEMENT. j Athens, October -I. Immediately the Turco-Bnlgarian agreement was signed Turkey evacuated the fortresses on the Bulgarian [frontier, and transferred eighty thonIsand troops, mostly untrained re--1 emits, to a fortified fine between the 'capital and the Dardanelles. I M. Radoslavoff told a prominent (politician that it was better for Bul--1 garia not to gain an inch of tcrritoiy ! Than to see the extension of Greece and Serbia. BULGARIA WANTS MILITARY SUPPORT, Rome, October 4. Jl Messagero’s Bucharest correspondent says that M. Savoff has gone to Berlin to explain the situation of the Bulgarian army, and to ask Germany for immediate military support. ALLIES’ PROPOSALS LAPSED. London, October 4. Renter reports that owing to the recent developments it must lie taken that the. Bulgarian Government has rejected the Allies’ proposals, to which no answer lias been returned, and consequently the proposals have lapsed. BULGARIA’S SUICIDE. , London, October o. | The. Times, in an article, states that Russia has taken the only possible course by issuing an ultimatum, hub the fear of a stern, c _ deter ruler and hi.s pliant Ministers front, fluking course, 'yjo-, , biting: ithe .whole: spirit •' ik ■ -the hriefi history of modern Bulgaria in the Balkans. It fs a sad‘ ; stoiV. There 1 Inik hefeii no sight more upr. more tragic tha|i ’the preparations of Bulgaria to shatter : ev«ry. pros}>e(;t -oLBal,. kliii unity jhy marching into battle beside the Turks, who have ’ oppressed the Bulgarian race for five hundred years. The path that Bulgaria lias taken spells suicide.

“WHERE ENGLAND STEPS SHE STAYS.’’ i ' i . > I ' r ' i v Berlin, The : Frankfurter .Zeitung states that 1 England's tlii;eatjs to ,iar|d . *>t Salonika' are ; attempts to, frighten I;recce, which cgnnqt he 'taken ; seriously.'- It is ;jni,possil)h? to see where the Entente cap., get 150,000 men il the landing is to, he attempted, Gyeeee will have urgent interest in preventing the landing, as where England plants her feet siie generally stays. The Kreuz Zeitung similarly .scoffs at the idea of lot),000 troops landing to support Serbia. BALKAN ARMIES. To arrive at the strength of the various Balkan armies is a difficult proposition. Possibly the strongest army is that of Roumania which lias a strength of about 000,000 men of all ranks organised in five army corps and two cavalry divisions. The infantry are armed with a Manlioher magazine rifle, and the horse and field artillery with 75 m.m. Krvipp guns. The mobilisation arrangements are said to be systematic and fairly complete. The physique of the men is good, though it is said to be hardly "equal to that of the Bulgarians, who can stand almost anything. Ihe cavalry ride well, and the artillery have been well trained and caretully organised. The Danube would phry an important part in a Balkan and the Roumanians being probably aware of this have a flotilla on the Danube, which is decidedly superior to that* of the Bulgarian river fleets, though her Black Sea squadron is said to be inferior to Bulgaria’s, The Bulgarian army had a strength of 100.000 when the Balkan War broke out but it is a question of how far has she been able to train and equip sufficient men to cover her losses in 1913. In the two Balkan wars she lost 140,000 men and expended 090.000.000 in money. It was then stated that her dosses would cripple the army for thirty years. Bulgaria’s strength now may be put down at the outside 300,000.

Bulgaria lias a small fleet m the Black Sea hut they are m» pel ass m fche lae« of Russia's ships in that quarter. Greece has a war footing of about 200,000 after allowing for her 00.0011 losses in the Balkan. Wars. Servia’s strength is most difficult to estimate on account of her losses in the war and also the ravages ol typhsis hut it mav lie put down salely at about 200.000.