Bulgaria in Balkan Entente

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 180, 2 August 1938, Page 7

Bulgaria in Balkan Entente

Adheres to Non-aggression Understanding “NEW ERA IN BALKAN HISTORY” United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.-—Copyright. Received Monday, 9.55 p.m. BELGRADE, July 31. The treaty between Bulgaria and the Balkan Entente is confirmed. Bulgaria is to join the Entente. The main features of the new friendship treaty between Bulgaria and the Balkan Entente (Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Rumania) which was signed last night at Salonika, are: (1) Bulgaria adheres to the non-aggresison and arbitration understanding already existing among tho nations forming the Entente; (2) the other signatories agroe to the renunciation of the clauses in the Neuilly Treaty limiting Bulgaria’s armaments and forbidding her to introduce conscription and to the renunciation of the conditions of the Lausanne Convention of 1923 demilitarising Bulgaria's frontiers in Thrace. The treaty is regarded as the first step in Bulgaria’s joining the Entente. A message from Sofia says the treaty ik held to open a new era in Balkan history. Crowds in the streets cheered tho news, many participating in torchlight processions while overhead army planes dropped leaflets announcing that the war clauses of the Neuilly Treaty no longer existed. The Government newspaper Dness, says: “Bulgaria has tho right to organise openly her military strength.”