BULGARIAN OVERTURES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16968, 30 September 1918, Page 5

BULGARIAN OVERTURES.

28-HOUR ARMISTICE ASKED. POSSIBILITIES OF PEACE. (Received 1.30 a.m.) R*uter. PARIS, Sept 28. Later information regarding the Bulgarian situation states that a high Bulgarian officer brought a letter to the British Commander-in-Chief from the Bulgarian Generalissmio asking for a 28 ho;;rs' suspension of hostilities. The letter mentioned that Bulgaria proposed to send the Minister for Finance and the commander of the Second Army, on behalf of the Government, and with King Ferdinand's approval, to discuss the terms of the proposed armistice. (Received 1.30 a.m.) JJeufer. LONDON, Sept 28. It is understood that the view in official circles is that peace with Bulgaria would have a prodigious effect, especially with Turkey It would free the whole of the Salonika army, and, in certain eventualities in connection with Turkey, would ' also free the Palestine and Mesopotamia armies and kill the German menace to the east. Moreover it would probably affect advantageously the world s food situation. , , These results are, it is considered, only obtainable by the complete rupture of the political and military relations of Bulgaria with the Central Powers, and the > allied occupation of communications be- . tween Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary. Presumably this would be one of the essentials of an armistice.