GREEK MOBILISATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16033, 27 September 1915, Page 4

GREEK MOBILISATION.

The prompt action taken in Greece to mobilise the army and summon a meeting of Parliament suggests that whatever the purpose of the Bulgarian mobilisation the Balkan States have not yet reached the friendly understanding for which Greece and Roumania have been working. If the Bulgarians have no aggressive intention they have not been able to convince Greece of their good faith, for the Greek mobilisation is frankly an answer to the Bulgarian. In the caso of Greece there is no suggestion that a general mobilisation is necessary to maintain neutrality, but an announcement that the step has been taken to guard against the possi- , bility of Bulgarian aggression and in particular to maintain Greece's treaty obligations to protect Servia against attack from Bulgaria. There can be no doubt that the events of the past week make the situation in the Balkans critical. It is possible that the defensive enthusiasm of Greece mty influence Tsar Ferdinand and his Ministers in the direction of a safe peace, but i 1» is not to be expected that active mobilisation can proceed without to some extent reawakening the bitter enmities of the Second Balkan war. All the recent efforts of public men in the Balkans have been in the direction of healing old sores. The second anniversary of the Treaty of Bucharest fell last month but the occasion passed without any of the public demonstrations which marked the first anniversary in Athens, Bucharest and Belgrade. Whether the same discreet silence can be maintained during mobilisation is open to some doubt. Every movement in the Balkans will be followed with interest for the next few days. A German message intimates that 110,000 new Allied troops have landed at Mudros for the Gallipoli campaign. It is not at all unlikely that in this the Germans are as well informed as they usually are, and that the movement of troops is part of the Allied preparation for a new and important phase of the war in Turkey, the magnitude of which depends upon the final decisions of the Balkan States.