BALKAN PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1939, Page 6

BALKAN PEACE

THREATS SEEN WITHIN AND WITHOUT MENACE OF BULGARIA. PROBLEMS FOR THE ENTENTE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. PARIS, December 28. The foreign editor of the “ParisSoir,” M Jules Sauerwein, commenting on the Balkan entente meeting today, says that one of the entente’s weaknesses is that it must face an internal enemy before it prepares to resist the outside menace. The Bulgarian aerodromes and military establishments are ready to receive the invading forces either of Russia or Germany. Bolshevisation is another internal danger. It is certain that a Russian attack on Rumania would provoke outbreaks in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. In this danger the entente will do well to co-ordinate her efforts to resist the closely-allied Bulgarian menace. The more discontented Bulgaria becomes, the more it will listen to Russia propaganda. Therefore, on Bulgaria the conference must take up a position. It might be possible for Britain and France to offer concessions operative only on the conditions of Bulgaria’s wholehearted participation in the defence of the Balkan Peninsula. Unless the Balkan entente's diplomatic preparations support military preparations they will receive unpleasant surprises. TURKEY’S NEUTRALITY NAZI COMPLAINT ABOUT BRITISH WARSHIPS. LONDON. December 28. Berlin radio complained that British warships seized one Italian and one Hungarian ship in Turkish waters and took them to Malta for contraband search. Germans declare that British warships are using Turkish waters without being disturbed, raising the question of Turkey's neutrality.