THE SALONIKA LANDING.

Evening Star, Issue 15929, 8 October 1915, Page 6

THE SALONIKA LANDING.

FORTY-MILE JOURNEY TO REACH SERBIAN FRONTIER. BULGARIANS FORTIFY DEDEAGATCH. ATHENS, October 7. (Received. October 8, at 920 a.m.) The Allies’ detachments landing near Salonika have encamped in the territory ceded to Serbia after the 1913 Treaty as a site for stores. They will proceed as quickly as possible to Ghevgheli. The Bulgarians have had all the houses an the shore at Dedeagatch evacuated, and are arming the forts with powerful guns and laying a double row of mines off the port. Dedeagatch is full of troops stiffened by German officers and non-conis. It is stated that there arc 5,000 of them in the Bulgarian army. The Bulgarian mobilisation is actively proceeding. Germany gave a formal assurance that Bulgaria would not attack Greece nor attack Serbia until the latter had been crushed, by Germany. [Ghevgheli lies 40 miles inland from Salonika, and is on the Serbo-Greek frontier, on the railway from Salonika. It is about 25 miles south of Stnimitza. Dedeagatch. a roadstead port, !ict> some 150 miles? east of Salonika.] BULGARIA’S TASK: TO BLOCK LANDING FORCE. FORMAL BREACH WITH SERBIA. GREAT INTERNAL DISTURBANCE. LONDON, October 7. (Received October 8, at 8.30 a.m.) Bulgaria is concentrating troops at Stnimitza to threaten the Salonika railway. Disturbances have occurred at Sofia, Rustchuk, Ternova, Varna, Philippopolis, and Burgas, M. Radoslayoff reassured the Rumanian and Greek Ministers of Bulgaria’s friendship. [Strumitza lies about 70 miles north of Salonika, in the extreme south-west corner of Bulgaria, in tho angle where tho Bulgarian, Serbian, and Greek frontiers meet. It is about 15 miles west of the railway which runs north from Salonika, through Ghevgheli, Gradetz, Velea, Uskub, and Nish to Belgrade. GERMAN SPECULATIONS. DARDANELLES JOB TOO TOUGH. London ‘Times’ and Sydney ‘Sun’ Services. LONDON, October 7. Theobald Wolff, writing in the ‘Berliner Tageblatt,’ expresses the belief that the allied landing force consists onlv of Dardanelles _ troops. He says the Allies’ first objective will be to occupy the railway line to Uskub. The ‘Frankfurter Zeitung’ says that the Allies are tired of the Dardanelles, and are selecting Salonika as a new base for their operations. BULGARIA’S SHUFFLING. SOFIA, October 7. (Received October 8, at 9.20 a.m.) A communique states: Bulgaria, replying to the Russian ultimatum and the Notes by the Entente Powers, again explains the essence of her neutrality, and emphasises the possible dangers from the fresh encouragement given to the Serbians. Bulgaria categorically rejects the accusation concerning tho presence of German and Austrian officers in th© Bulgarian army, declaring that she cannot send away people who do not exist. IN THE /ECEAN. BULGARIA PROVOKES GREECE. London ‘Times’ and Sydney ‘Sun’ Services. LONDON, October 7. Athens reports that Bulgarian revenue cutters pursued, and fired, on three Greek shigs," but did not danurgq them,

diplomatists pack up. SOFIA, October 7. (Receiver] October 8, at 8.30 a.m.) The Serbian Minister has asked for his passports. ROME, October 7. (Received October 8. at 11.25 a.m.) The Bulgarian Minister has been handed his passports.