THE BALKAN PROBLEM BULGARIA WANTS MACEDONIA

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 78, 30 September 1915, Page 7

THE BALKAN PROBLEM BULGARIA WANTS MACEDONIA

MOBILISATION INVOLVES AN ACUTE CRISIS (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received September 30, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 29th September. The Times Balkan correspondent says that the mobilisation of the Bulgarian army involves an acute crisis. Peasants are arriving in thousands at Sofia and other military centres. The streets are crowded, but the quiet demeanour of the men affords a remarkable contrast to the joyful enthusiasm displayed at the mobilisation for the Balkan war in October 1912. Their departure from the villages was marked by the touching grief of the women and children. The harvest is over and the men are willing to respond to the call, but obviously are not enthusiastic, the people desiring peace. The Government, aware of this sentiment, continues to act in accordance with its declared intention to maintain strict neutrality, employing the army as a useful lever in the diplomatic negotiations, and avoiding the obvious dangers of the adventurous policy of recent years. There is every reason to hope that neither the Government nor the country contemplates a rash movement The Petit Parisien states that the Bulgarian Minister at Vienna, after stating that Bulgarian mobilisation does not necessarily mean war, states that the Bulgarian policy aims at Macedonia, which Bulgaria wishes to acquire, either peacefully or by force of arms. "No negotiations," he says, "are possible between Servia and Bulgaria. We want Macedonia unconditionally." (Press Association.) FRIENDS OF GERMANY RESIGN FROM BULGARIAN CABINET. SOFIA, 29th September. > The Germanophile Ministers, M. Tontcheff and M. Bokaloff, have resigned. It is reported that Cabinet is being reconstructed.