TURKEY AND BULGARIA. AN AGREEMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 73, 29 March 1910, Page 7

TURKEY AND BULGARIA. AN AGREEMENT.

Bj Telegraph.— Prew Ai«ociatlon.— Copyright. SOFIA, 28th March. Tho Ministers of Kinji Ferdinand of Bulgaria, after a neiich of interviews at Constantinople, reached: a complete agreement regarding a commercial treaty with Turkey; also the delimitation of undefined points on the frontier and the further linking of Bulgarian and Turkish railways. King Ferdinand and Queen Eleonora of Bulgaria recently visited Constantinople, and were cordially entertained. The visit was considered to be significant after their Majesties' journey to St. Petersburg. It was thought that King Peter of Servia would alto visit Constantinople, as the outcome of Rumsia's effort* to bring about a rapprochement of Bulgaria and Sorviu with Turkey, with a view to ultimate federation. M. Paprikotf, Bulgarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, who accompanied King Ferdinand . to Russia, stated on his return to >Sdßa, that an agreement had been reached for the preservation of peace iv the Balkans and the maintenance of concoid among the Balkan nations. Russia and Austria recently exchanged verbal assurances of common recognition of the status quo of the Balkans and the it-sumption of cordial relations. On the 11th February, the Vienna ooi respondent of The limea stated: — Tho expediency of moderation in estimating the pace of progress towards a complete removal of Austro-Rusbian difference in regaid to the Balkans needs once more to be emphasised. As far as is known here in quarters well-disposed towards a restoration of cordiality between the two countries, no positive development has yet taken place, nor is such a development expected in the immediate future. In Ht. Petersburg the outlook may be differently judged, but it must be confessed that the various forecasts published in the Russian press and elsewhere are not quite understood in the Austrian capital. It is not doubted that a good understanding will presently be attained, nor that, when attained, it will be generally welcomed. But us in this instance Austria-Hungary and Russia would not be making friends "againtit anybody," but merely striving to eliminate misconceptions that might operate to the detriment of Kuropeuu solidarity in facing a possible Balkan crisis, it is not quite clear how they could usefully make a joint declaration or other diplomatic manifestation until the causes of the tension recently prevailing .between them have been adequately discussed and removed by reciprocal explanation. It is not yet itnown here that any such adequate discussion has taken 'place, nor does it setm likely, in view of the shortness of the time which has elapsed since the publication of the Novoe Vremya interview, that it can have taken plrne. The less noisily this indispensable work of preparation is done, the greater will i>e the chance of ultimate sober agreement. For Children's Hacking Cough at night. Woodi 1 Great Ptpptraist &—& — It 6d