BULGARIA'S MOVE.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15393, 25 September 1915, Page 11

BULGARIA'S MOVE.

PROTECTION AGAINST GERMANY. AN ATHENS THEORY. ATHENS, September 23. Thero are indications that Bulgaria's mobilisation is duo to tho fears of German violation of her neutrality as a result of Germany's prospective campaign ag.'.inst Serbia. The decree which has been issued by tho Bulgarian Government is for tho mobilisation of twenty-seven classes. The announcement has caused considerable excitement in Groece. "WAIT AND SEE." POLICY NOT NECESSARILY CHANGED. LONDON, September 23. Tho secretary of the Bulgarian Legation in London, interviewed, said: —"Up to now wo have been only civilians in tho armed European camp. Roumania and Greece have been mobilised for a considerable time, nnd Switzerland even is under arms. Thero is nothing astonishing in Bulgaria following suit. Why should mobilisation mean a change in the national policy? I am not prepared to nrophesy about it, as policy •might bo cnanged by unexpected events. Wo must wait and see." THE TRANSFERRED TERRITORY. (Received September 24th, G. 45 p.m.) ATHENS. September 24. A panic prevails among the Mussulman population of lvaragatch nnd the other districts which have been transferred to Bulgaria. Numbers havo taken refuge in Adrianople. whieh_ is also in a state of panic. Many families, desnite tho Vali's exhortation, are packing their valuables and hastening to Constantinople. AGAINST EGYPT. NEW EXPEDITION SAIT> TO BE IN PREPARATION. PARIS. September 24. According to ''Debats, 1 ' two thousand German officers aro in Syria training an army, armed with new rifles, which is intended for a second expedition to Egypt in tho middle of November. The Turks have constructed a new railway to the starting point at Biressepa, on the edge of the desert, and funs and ammunition have been Bteaddy pouring in. Eight hundred cavalry are engaged in scouting.