BULGARIA TRIES TO EXPLAIN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12727, 22 December 1915, Page 6

BULGARIA TRIES TO EXPLAIN.

LONDON", October 15. Renter's Amsterdam correspondent quotes from the Frankfort "Zeitung" a lemarkabie document, of which, it says 20.000 copies have been distributed by the Bulgarian Government in various munici-|-;.liiies. "We do not know the contents of tiie famous Note which the Quadruple Entente presented to Bulgaria," says the document." but from what has been said and published we can see that: "Russia and her Allies give us nothing iVr our neutrality. On the other hand, tht-v require that we should participate in the" war and place our army at the full dispell of the Quadruple Entente, which w.iiiii command it, and .-end it v.heie it liked: also that the Bulgarian army must take Constantinople and then baud it ov-i to-Russia. In return for all this Bulgar a was to receive territory up to the Euos.Vidiii line, and was pnunis-d some quite vague and inadequate' compensations in Mated..tiia. only, however, on the understanding that Serbia ,got suliicient compensation from Austria. 'Austria and C.eimany. in return for Bulgaria's neutrality, promise tile whole of Mafedouia. including Skoplie (I'skub). I'.itolia (Mf>nastir). Ochrida, etc.: also friendly mediation between Bulgaria and Turkey", with a view to the cession of the line to Dedeagatch and of the teuitoiy to the west of and on the right bank of the Mai it/a. Still more far-reaching terri toi-ia: promises at th- expense of Serbia hav- 1..-,, made by the Central Powers if we give them our military assistance. These promises -orresponil to our desire to have a common frontier with AustriaHungaiy along the Danube. Other paris ul" Old Seil.ia. too. are offered us." The document ends: We are entitled To trust a tr-atv with Germany, who has always i[drilled her tieaty f.bligations. Finally, one sees daily more clearly that victor, inclines to the side of Germany and Austria -Hungary."