A BALKAN TROUBLE

Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 6

A BALKAN TROUBLE

YUGO-SLAVIAN FRONTIER

EAIDS BY MACEDONIANS,

LONDON, August 3. A serious situation has arisen in the lldkans as a result of Bulgaria no' answering a Yugo-Slavian Note re questing tire suppression of Macedonian revolutionaries who raided a village <m the Yugo-Slavian frontier, says the ‘ Sketch.’

Yu go-Slav! a has instructed her army commanders to pursue tho revolutionaries oji to Bulgarian soil, and it is rumored from Belgrade that Bulgarian troops are moving to the frontier. The Yngo-Slav Foreign Minister, Dr M. Nintchitch, has despatched a Note to the League of Nations, reporting the action, and asking authority for the suppression of the revolutionaries under international guarantees. The trouble is attributed to Soviet intrigue. It is reported that Moscow lias promised to supply arms and money to tho Bulgars for intensified action against Yugo-Slavia, Greece, and Bumania.

In the House of Commons to-day the Under-Secretary for Home Affairs, Ml G. L. T. Locker-Lampson, replying to Mr Noel Buxton, said that no confirmation had been received of the report that the Yugo-Slav Government had ordered troops to invade Bulgaria as the result of Comitadji incidents, but in the event of Macedonian bands crossing tiie frontier large numbers of Yugoslav forces would bo ordered to pursue them back into Bulgarian territory. It was understood, he said, that the Yugo-Slav Government would bring tin matter before the League of Nations, The British Government was watching development! closely. [Mr Noel Buxton has travelled in the East, and is actively interested in the Balkan States. He was wounded by a political assassin in October, 1914, while engaged on a mission which aimed at securing the adhesion of the Balkan Stales to the cause of the Allies in the war. He Ims written several books on the Balkans.]