BULGARIA'S PLEA

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1918, Page 8

BULGARIA'S PLEA

SUGGESTIONS AS TO TERMS

A CLEAR ROAD TO AUSTRIA

AND TURKEY

DISARMAMENT TO PREVENT

TREACHERY.

(UNITED PRESS . ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGIIT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received September 30, 1 p.m.)

LONDON; 29th September.

The Manchester Guardian states that presumably the Allies will readily grant Bulgaria an armistice on terms, but they cannot at this stage make a definitive peace as -the necessary territorial adjust-' 1 ments must await the general European settlement. The Allies might guarantee Bulgaria as a territorial minimum her 1914 frontiers, on condition that Bulgaria demobilises arid hands over her artillery, arms, an 3 ammunition, and allows the. Allies the free use of Bulgarian terri-' tories for their operations against Turkey; and Austria-Hungary. This would en-, able the Allies to launch a- direct attack; upon Constantinople, which the . Turks would be unable to. withstand, and they would have to ask for an armistice.

Austria-Hungary, the paper continues, is not prepared morally br materially to defend a new front extending the whole length of its northern and western frontiers; in Serbia especially, as the Slavs inhabiting the adjoining Austro-Hun-garian territories are in a state of semirevolt. Austria-Hungary would soon collapss under the additional strain. It is little wonder that Malinoff's action has aroused intense emotion in Germany.