DETERMINATION ON PEACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16970, 2 October 1918, Page 8

DETERMINATION ON PEACE.

EFFORTS OF BULGARIA. ' ■ \ " - ■ COUNTER MOVES ; BY\ GERMANY Australian ,Bad N.Z. . CaMo Association. 1 CR«cd. 1.55 a.m.) ' STOCKHOLM, Sept. 3!), - A wol] .informed authority'' strikingly! describes the succession of efforts Geirmany made to keep Bulgaria in. the Wan i Berlin w«a. aware two months ago thafi | Dr. M&hnoffj with the tacit, support-oil thai aiilisy and the people, had determined ■ to secure peace before the; winter regard. less of the interests of. tno Germans anclAustrian*. Talaat Bey, the Turkish Grand Visticr, given : a loan of £45.000,000; with the right to occupy : Baku' conditionj ally, Turkey has . not fulfilled ' the contract. •' «... King Ferdinand, though overtly, proGerman, did riot resist the peace move, fearing a revolution and v knowing -Dr. Malinoffs strength. Dr. MalinoS. contempluted unconditional surrender, : provided thai - only British troops vera allowed to occupy . Sofia. . He trusted to tho mercy of the Allies and their , willingness to settle the Balkan question in accordance • with , the principle *of justice and self-determination. , '■ : ■ ' ;