BULGARIA.

Evening Star, Issue 15929, 8 October 1915, Page 3

BULGARIA.

RUPTURE WITH ENTENTE. ALLIED AMBASSADORS LEAVING. ( LONDON, October 7. Reuter’s Sofia correspondent states that the Russian Minister has announced a rupture of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria, and that the Russian, French, British, Italian, and Serbian Ministers have requested their passports. THE BULGARIAN ARMY. OFFICERS’ RESIGNATIONS REFUSED BY FERDINAND. LONDON, October 7. Only heavily-censored messages are available from the Balkan capitals, containing the barest facts. A Sofia telegram states that the citv is calm. King Ferdinand and M. Radoslavoff to the very moment of the disembarkation of the Allies at Salonika were convinced that the Entente Powers would not pass beyond tho limits of diplomatic action. Numerous Bulgarian officers are offering their resignations. King Ferdinand re* fuses to accept them, and has issued a proclamation that in the event of war officers resigning will be considered traitors. Travellers from Sofia reaching Bucharest comment on the striking contrast between the present mobilisation and that on the occasion of the Turkish war, when the troops departed covered with garlands of flowers amid tho soulstirring songs of tho populace. Now tho peasants do not conceal their discontent. REVOLUTION POSSIBLE. ROME. October 7. There are, violent dissensions between the Russephiles and Germanouhiles in Bulgaria. Tho people and soldiers are sympathetic to Russia, and It seems as if the discord liireatens to end in a tragic revolt. RUMANIA FORTIFYING OX BULGARIAN FRONTIER. LONDON, October 7. Rumanian troops have been sent to the Bulgarian frontier, where Giuvgcvo, uu the Danube, the Rumanian terminus of tho railway through Bulgaria to Turkey, is being feverishly fortified. SALONIKA LANDING. BRITISH FORCE INCLUDED. LONDON, October 7. Tlie. ‘ Daily Mail ’ complains that the nam© of tlio British officer commanding at Salonika is withheld nom Britain, despite the fact that it appeared in German newspapers and several Italian newspapers on October 4.