SEEDS OF DISCORD

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 85, 8 October 1915, Page 7

SEEDS OF DISCORD

REVOLT THREATENS IN BULGARIA i THE GRECO-SERVIAN TREATY OFFENSIVE IN CHAMPAGNE SUCCESS OF FRENCH TROOPS OPTIMISTIC FEELING IN RUSSIA

News' from the Balkans is being subjected to heavy 'censoring, the barest facts filtering through. It is stated from Germany that the 'Allies' forces landed at Salonika are from the Dardanelles. Bulgarian forces are threatening the railway from Salonika, and are fortifying Dedeagatch with powerful guns and mines. The troops at the latter place are said to have five thousand German officers, but Bulgaria insists that there are no Austro-German officers in her army. The seeds of discord are being sown amongst the people, and a revolt is threatened. Allied diplomats are leaving Sofia, and the Bulgarian Minister ' at Rome has been handed his passports. The French offensive continues successfully in the Champagne. _( furious counter-offensive was repulsed ,with very heavy losses to the enemy. There is a much more optimistic feeling,- in Russia, it being believed that Yon Hindenburg's third scheme to crush the Russian armies has failed. DISCORD IN BULGARIA A TRAGIC REVOLT THREATENED y ROME, 7th October. There-are- violent -dissensions' between the parties favouring Russia and Germany in Bulgaria. The people and soldiers are sympathetic to Russia, and the seeds of discord "threaten a. tragic revolt. , v (Received' October 8, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. There _a»e bean, disturbances at Sofia, Rustchuk, Timova, Varna, Philippopoira, and-Borgaa^ NEWS HEAVILY CENSORED _______ , FEELING IN BULGARIA LONDON, 7th- October. Only heavily censored messages from the Balkan capitals have been received, containing- the barest facts. , A Sofia telegram states that the city is calm. King Ferdinand and M. Radoslavoff, 'to the very moment of the disembarkation of the Allies' troops at Salonika, were convinced that the Entente Powers would not pass beyond the limits of diplomatic action. ,~ Numerous Bulgarian officers are offering their resignations, but King Ferdinand refuses to accept them. He will issue a proclamation that, in the event of war, officers who resign will be considered traitors. Travellers from Sofia reaching Bucharest comment on the a_riking contrast between the present mobilisation compared with that for the Turkish war, when the troops departed garlanded with flowers, amid the soul-stirring songs of the populace. Now the peasants do not conceal their discontent. THE REPLY TO THE ALLIED POWERS. (Received October 8, 9 a.m.) SOFIA, 7th October. A communique states : Bulgaria, in replying to Russia's ultimatum and the Notes by the Entente, again explains the essence of her neutrality, and emphasises the possible dangers from fresh encouragement given the Servians. Bulgaria categorically rejects the accusation concerning the presence of German and Austrian officers in the Bulgarian army, declaring that she cannot eend away people who do not exist. • ALLIED DIPLOMATS LEAVE SOFIA. - LONDON, 7th October. Beater's Sofia correspondent states that the Russian Minister announced the rupture of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria, and the Russian, French, British, Italian, and Servian Ministers requested their passports. (Received October 8, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, 7th October. ' A Reuter message from Rome states that the Bulgarian Minister has-been banded his passports. - ASSURANCES TO RUMANIA AND GREECE. (Received October 8, 8.30 a.m.) / LONDON, 7th October. M. Radoslavoff has again assured the Rumanian and Greek Ministers of Bulgaria's friendship. BULGARIANS FIRE ON CREEK VESSEL. x (Time* and Sydney Sun Services.)' (Received October 6, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. Athens reports that Bulgarian revenue cutters pursued and fired on three (reek sailing ships, but without doing any damage. THE ALLIES' LANDING FORCE CONSISTS OP DARDANELLES TROOPS (Times and Sydney Sun Services.)" (Received October 8, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. Theobald Wolff, writing to the Berliner Tageblatt, says he believes that tHe landing force consists only of Dardanelles troops. The Allies first objective .will be to occupy the railway line to Uskub. •The Frankfurter Zeitung states' that the Allies are tired of the Dardanelles campaign, and are selecting Salonika as a new base of operations. (i*res3 Association.) ATHENS, 7th October. , The Allies detachments which landed near Salonika encamped on the territory ceded to Servia after the 1913 treaty, which will also be used as a site for stores. ' The troops proceed as quickly as possible to Ghevgheli. COMMANDER'S NAME WITHHELD, IN ENGLAND. LONDON, Tth October. The Daily Mail complains that the name of the British officer commanding the forces landed at Salonika has been withhold in Britain, despite the fact that it appeared in German newspapers and several Italian uewsDaoerß on ths .fourth .pf. October.,

BULGARIANS THREATENING SALONIKA RAILWAY. (Received October 8, 8.30 a.m.) " ' ' LONDON, 7th October. Bulgaria is concentrating at Strumnitza, and threatens tie Salonika railway.- ■ \j FORTIFYING DEDEAGATCH TROOPS STIFFENED WITH.GERMAN OFFICERS (Received October 8, 9 asm.) ATHENS, 7th October. The Bulgarians have had airthe houses on the shore of Dedeagatch evacuated, and are arming the forts with powerful guns, and laying a double row of mines' off the port. . i • Dedeagatch is full of troops, stiffened with German officers and non-coms. It is stated that there are 5000 German officers in the Bulgarian army. Bulgarian mobilisation is actiyely proceeding. _____ THE GRECO-SERVIAN TREATY KING CONSTANTINE'S PROTEST — _____ * BERNE, 7th October. ' The Bund states that King Constantine protested against M. Venizelos extending, the Greco-Servian treaty to include the event of Bulgaria's ally attack- > ing Servia. _ ' It is now probable that Bulgaria will support King Constantine' s interven- . tion by not attacking Servia-, contending that she is holding a Btrong Servian force inactive., ' GERMANY SPEAKS FOR BULGARIA. (Received October 8; 9 a,m.) ,- " ATHENS, 7th October. Germany gave a formal assurance that' Bulgaria would not attack Greece, and would not attack Servia until Servia has been cdushed by Germany. AGREEMENT WITH BULGARIA IN EXISTENCE FOR MONTHS. (Times and Sydney -Sun Services.) • N ROME, 7th October. An agreement between Austria-Hungary and Germany and Bulgaria has existed for several months, providing that Bulgaria should attack Servia with six divisions towards Nish and- send Macedonian soldiers to destroy the Salonika railways to Sofia. (Press Association.) o . TEUTONIC FORCES CROSS INTO SERVIA. v (Received October 8, 8.30 a.m.) NE>W YORK, 7th October. A Renter message reads: — Berlin, official: ILarge Teutonic forces have crossed the Drina, the Save'i and the Danube rivers, into Servia. VIENNA, 7th October. The concentration on the' Servian frontier has. been completed. German officers are in supreme command. Sixty thousand Austrians have been detached to attack Klenak. General yon Mackensen's army has been able to leave the Pripet marshes and retire to the east ofßrest-Litovsk, and a portion of bis army has gone to Servia. (Received October 8, 10.30 a.m.) . LONDON, 7th. October. A Servian -communique states that the enemy's attempt to cross tb.fr river Save was repulsed. SERVIAN ARMY IN SPLENDID CONDITION. I v (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received October 8, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. American Red Cross doctors from Servia declare that the army is -in splendid physical condition. . The typhus scourge has been -stamped out. (Press Association.)' VENIZELOS AND THE KING WHY THE PREMIER RESIGNED . , * ATHENS, 7th October. There had been differences of opinion between M. Venizelos and King Constantine since the mobilisation decree was issued. M. Venizelos then offered to resign, but King Constantine refused, as both had agreed that mobilisation was necessary and should be defensive in character, aiming v solely at preventing Bulgaria, from attacking Servia. An official communique was accordingly issued that an agreement had been established between the King and M. Venizelos. After the debate in the Chamber, where the Opposition violently 'attacked M. Venizelos and vainly attempted to outvote the Cabinet, the German Minister went to King Constantine and bitterly complained that some of the expressions which M. Venizelos used in the debate were insulting to Germany. King Constantine immediately summoned M. Venizelos, and reproached him for going beyond the of the explanation agreed on between them. M. Venizelos reminded the King that he had reserved full Kberty of action if he were personally attacked, but said that, having incurred the King's displeasure, he felt bound to tender the Cabinet's resignations' It is understood that M. Venizelos has promised to support the coalition if it maintained the mobilisation of the army. , King Constantine conferred with the Parliamentarians, and begged the assistance of former Premiers at a conference. He finally decided on a Coalition Cabinet, under M. Zaimis, the Governor of the National Bank. ASTONISHMENT IN ITALY. ROME, 7th October. The resignation of M. Venizelos caused profound astonishment in political and diplomatic circles". A Servian military mission has arrived, and is conferring with, the King and General Cadorna. , ____________ s PROSPECTS IN GREECE ALLIES' ARMY MUST BE STRENGTHENED - / — — — — - • LONDON, 7th October. ■The dramatic resignation of M. Venizelos is the chief topic of discussion, even overshadowing the renewed French offensive in the Champagne. The newspapers accept M. Zaimis's accession to power. He is a practical, rather than a brilliant, politician, but they acknowledge that his straightforwardness and honesty of purpose have earned the universal respect and esteem of his fellow-countrymen. M. Zaimis's sympathies are with the Entente Powers., The Daily Graphic attributes the German diplomatic success to the > bribery of Greek, Bulgarian, and Rumanian newspapers and politicians, but ' says that it is necessary to remove the impression that an Austro-German military success is likely. Other newspapers insist on the necessity for increasing ths army already landed at Salonika to the maximum. PARIS, 7th October. The newspapers reserve their comment* on the Greek crisis, and agree that nothing should interfere with the Macedonian expedition, which must be carried through promptly. There must be sufficient forces to ensure its success. RUMANIAN PREPARATIONS i ________ PROTECTING THE FRONTIER LONDON, 7th October. Rumanian troops have been sent to the Bulgarian frontier, where Giurgevo, the Danube terminus of the Rumanian railway to Turkey, is being feverishly fortified. [Giurgevo, in Rumania, is on- the north bank of the Danube, due south of Bucharest, and lies across the river from the Bulgarian town of Rustchuk.] CONSTANTINOPLE SOLD TO BULGARIA THE BARGAIN GERMANY DROVE (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, 7th October. A French wireless message announces that the Young Turks have sold Constantinople to the Bulgarians as a reward for intervention, and Germany has promised the reconstitution of Turkey throughout Western Asia and Northern Africa. Le Matin declares that Field-Marshal yon der Goltz offered Abdul Hamid a vast empire in Asia in exchange for Constantinople. Abdul refused. But it was necessary recently to dazzle King Ferdinand's eyes with the vision of his triumphant entry into Constantinople. So the Young Turks brought pressure to bear on Abdul to consent to the exchange. [The present regning Sultan of Turkey is Mehmet, who was appointed in 1909, to succeed Abdul Hamid, deposed in 1903. The use of Abdul's name may be a mere error.] GERMANS' ROAD TO EGYPT. l iTimes and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, 7th October. Th« Berliner Tageljl&tt states that Germany's objective j & to roach Esrvtt

NEW FRENCH OFFENSIVE BEGUN IN THE CHAMPAGNE. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN GERMANY LONDON, 6th October. A message from <9i.msterdam reports that there is great excitement in Germany owing to the commencement of another big French offensive in the Champagne. The news is announced in to-night's German communique. A VILLAGE AND A HILL CAPTURED. . PARIS, 7th October. A communique says : — Our action in the Champagne secured fresh results. The infantry, after thorough artillery preparation, assaulted and carried the village of Tahure and the summit of the height of Tahure, 192 feet, half-way bebetween Sduain and Cernay (and eight miles north-east of Suippes). We also progressed in the vicinity of Navarin farm, between Souain and Sommepy. Our prisoners already total over 1000. Only severe artillery duels have occurred elsewhere. [Tahure is the centre of the section of the German line which is now being attacked, and forms the "key" of the area. It is only a mile and a-half from the German supply railway running parallel with Champagne front.] BOMBARDMENT ON THE WHOLE FRONT. The High Commissioner reports : — ' LONDON, 6th October, 4.25 p.m. t There has been a bombardment on the whole * western front ; particularly violent in the region of Artois. South of Givenchy progress was made by the use of grenades. ENEMY'S FURIOUS OFFENSIVE RESULTS IN VERY HEAVY •LOSSES. (Received October 8, 9 a.m.,) PARIS, 7th October. A communique states : — Four counterattacks against the positions we recently captured in the woods westward of the Souchez-Angres road were completely repulsed. The Germans in the evening resumed a furious offensive against the positions they lost northward of Tahure. The attacks failed everywhere, with very; heavy losses to the enemy. TROOPS GREATLY HEARTENED BY RECENT SUCCESSES. (TIKES AND STDNET SON SERVICES.) LONDON, 7th October. A correspondent at the front, after describing the terrible devastation of the trenches after the recent offensive, says that the English and French soldiers are greatly heartened and 'quickened by new hopes of successes. A famous French General remarked : "If the French once get their tails up, they will carry the battlement of heaven." GERMAN PRISONERS SHOT DOWN BY GERMAN GUNS. LONDON, 7th October. The Petit Parisien states that German machine guns were turned on German prisoners being removed from the trenches at Souchez. DEAF MUTES FOR THE FRONT. (Received. October 8, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. The Amsterdam newspaper De Courant states that Germany is sending deaf mutes to the front in special companies. They receive their commands by signs. .Most of the reinforcements for the west front came from training camps, and not from the eastern theatre. (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) THE FIELD OF BATTLE A GRUESOME DESCRIPTION. PARIS, 7th October. A French soldier gives a harrowing description of the Champagne battlefield, seen while searching for fallen comrades. He says that the German barbed wire was only fifty yards from the French first line trenches. The effects of the terrible bombardment w-ere seen everywhere. The soil was burst open by the shells, and amid the twisted wire it was impossible to go thirty yards in the German trenches without seeing bodies shattered by explosions, and sometimes several corpses twisted together. Some had their arms raised, unsupported. One was found leaning against a trench in the act of taking aim. He was without a- rifle, though his arms and fingers were sticking stiffly in the air. He passed the 'bodies of more Zouaves and Algerians in front of the second line trenches, whom the machine-guns had mown down, * also several abandoned German machine-guns on the border of a wood, which cost the French dearly. The wood itself was thickly strewn with German dead. The French advance at this point was five and a-half miles in a straight line. He met wounded who said with enthusiasm : "At last we are going ahead This time it is warfare." OPTIMISM IN RUSSIA ENEMY'S THIRD SCHEME FAILS DVINSK FRONT ALONE CRITICAL. PETROGRAD, Tth October. The feeling is much more optimistic m staff quarters. The belief is growing that the bottom has fallen out of- Field-Marshal yon Hindenburg's third grandiose scheme to smash the Russian armies. The natural obstacles to the German advance have enormously increased, exceptionally heavy rains flooding the rivers. Only on the Dvinsk front are the Germans showing their old energy and tenacity. H«re General yon Bulow has mounted 8-inch guns, but Dvinsk, though only protected by earthworks, is holding out. The Russians north and south of Dvinsk continue to capture village after village, inflicting serious German losses. There was' a typical fight at Daniushevo, on the Vilia, where the Germans were driven out of the town, but repeatedly counter-attacked, and finally brought up reserves to within 200 yds of the Russian centre. Two Russian companies caught them on the flanks, and the attackers were annihilated. The German troops are utterly es-

while the Russians are showing a recovery, with the help of endless human and natural resources. The squares and open" places in Petrograd are filled with new soldiers. The High Commissioner reports : LONDON, 7th October, 3.40 a.m. The Germans have been again forced back .between the Narocz and Vishnief, and also at Czalatonjisk. ENEMY BRANDS UNWILLING MEN. (TIMES AND STDNET SDN SERTICU.) (Received October 8, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. Kieff refugees affirm that the AustroGermans at Poliesie branded many male inhabitants of military age on the right arm in order to prevent their escaping. THE AMERICAN LOAN SOME NOTABLE SUBSCRIBERS. (TIMES AM) BTDSET SUN SEHTICES.I (Received October 8, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. ' Subscribers to the American loan include Sir Ernest Cassel, one million sterling ; Kuhn, Loeb, and Company, bankers, five millions ; the Schwab and Dv Pont families, seven millions ; John Rockefeller, two millions ; ' and Otto Kuhn, one million. MEN FOR THE ARMY DUTY OF THE MINERS. (TIKIS VXD STDNET SUN SERTICM.) (Received October 8, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. At the annual conference of the Miners' Federation at Nottingham. Mr. Robert Smillie presided. In his opening address he opposed compulsory service being used as a cover to bring in industrial compulsion. | "The War Office," he said, "had instructed the recruiting committees to take whatever steps they considered the most effective to induce men required for Home services to enlist, and ' the assistance of local authorities has been promised. You should see that no man is able to complain that he is not wanted because he has not been fetched. You should report men refusing to enlist in the army, where they are, so much needed." % HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVAS ■ - SUSPENDED. ' LONDON, 7th October. The War .Office has suspended .the house-to-house canvass for recruits. Before the pink form is issued, Lord Derby will, confer with the committee of the Trades' Union Congress. COMMONWEALTH TROOPS DOUBLING THE REINFORCEMENTS. (Received October 8, 9.30 a-m/) MELBOURNE, This Day. During October and November the' Commonwealth has promised to provide 20,000 men, or double the usual number of Reinforcements. The enlistments since the outbreak of the war total nearly 150,000. GIRL RULER OF LUXEMBURG GERMANS TRY TO FORCE A MARRIAGE. (TIKIS INS SIDNEY SDN SERVICES.) LONDON, "7<th October. The Central News Paris correspondent declares that the Grand Jhich«S6 of Luxemburg has been strongly urged' by the Kaiser's agents to marry Prince Joachim. After many refusals, she announced that she would not marry anyone, but would insist on entering- a convent if further pressed. [Prince Joachim, the Kaiser's youngest son, was born in December, 1890.. The Grand Duchess is Marie Adelaide, born June, 1894/ who succeeded in February, 1912, on the death of her father,^ the Grand Duke Wilhelm.] SPIES IN SWITZERLAND i ______ ARRESTS AT BASLE.' BERNE, 7th October. Twenty Germans and spies of various nationalities have been arrested at Basle. GERMAN STEAMER SUNK BY BRITISH SUBMARINE IN THE B.ALTIC. (TIICM IND STONET SON SEBTICIS.) LONDON, 7th October. An Amsterdam' message states that a. British submarine sank the German steamer Sviona near Ruggen Isle. Ten of the crew were saved. DUTCH STEAMER LOST. (Received October 8, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 7th October. The Dutch steamer Tekelstroom has been sunk, Twenty of her crew are known to be saved. MISGU-DED HQSPITALITY DRUNKEN SOLDIERS IN SYDNEY. / (Received October 8, 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. There is a great outcry against the number of drunken soldiers seen in the city streets. There is a strong demand that the Government should take steps to curtail the opportunities for obtaining liquor. ' The* Chief Secretary (Mr. Black) replies that the evil is primarily not any laxity in the administration of the liquor laws, but the misguided hospitality of citizens towards soldiers. NEW ZEALANDERS RETURNING (Received October 8, 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Most of the New Zealand ,soldiers who arrived here yesterday are returning by the Moeraki. They have been invalided, not wounded. - s FOR THE WOUNDED FREE CLERICAL TRAINING. (Received October 8, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants has arranged a scheme to J)i'ovide free clerical training for returned soldiers. » , PERTH PATRIOTIC FUNDS. (Received October 8, 9.30 a.m.) PEBTH, This Day. «

ENEMY SUBJECTS MORE STRINGENT RULES WANTED. (Receiyed October "8, 9.30 a.m.) „ SYDNEY, This Day. j In the Legislative Council, Mr. Carruthers moved a series of resolutions to establish more stringent supervision of enemy subjects. IN THE CAMEROONS IMPORTANT SUCCESSES. (HUES INB STSVVT SUN SERVICES.) LONDON, 7th October. A Belgian official report states that important successes have been obtained in the Cameroons by troops from French Equatorial Africa, in conjunction with the Belgian forces. (MUSS ASSOCIATION.) THE KIDMAN CASE STOPPING DEFENDANT'S TENDERS. ' SYDNEY, 7th October. At the hearing of the Kidman case, Paymaster De Witt gave evidence that he received instructions from headquarters that no more of Kidman's tenders were to be accepted. After Kidman ceased to supply the Liverpool camp, the Government had to pay more for the supplies. He had known Kidman as a satisfactory contractor for military supplies for years.