BULGARIAN SETTLEMENT

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 114, 11 November 1919, Page 6

BULGARIAN SETTLEMENT

The Allies, states a Paris cablegram, have notified Bulgaria that she will be guaranteed an outlet to the .33gean Sea. According to American advices, Bulgaria might not have obtained this concession but for the influence in the Peace Conference of President Wilson. That the West European Powers should put themselves out in order to serve the only Balkan State that fought against them is hardly to be expected; still, taking a wide view, it is probable that President Wilson is right, and that a Bulgaria shut off from the would be as dis * turbing to the peace of the future as was, in former years, a land-locked Serbia. It is likely that Bulgaria's iEgean outlet will ba Dedeagatch. Prior to the war the Bulgars held the port; and Bulgarian control of the railway leading thereto (which was then running in Turkish territory) was part of the price paid by Turkey in 1914-15, in order to secure Bulgaria as Germany's ally. American opinion is that, under tho Peace Treaty, Bulgaria will have, at least, free rights over the railway, and that "Dedeagatch will be made a free port under international protection. Greek jealousy of Bulgaria, it is thought, will be appeased hy the confirmation of Greek rights in Salonika and Kavala—which Constantino, of unhappy memory, surrendered to the Bulgars—and Greece may even have the control of Constantinople if America declines it, and if mutual jealousies prevent iU occupation by Britain, France, suul Italy.