THE BALKANS
KING FERDINAND AND AUSTRIA. LONDON, December 1. A suppressed article in the Sofia paper, Mir, circumstantially blames King Ferdinand for direct responsibility for the war against Servia and Greece. The article states that the King, on June 28, personally ordered General Savoff to attack Servia and the Greek lines, and that General Savoff refused. Dr Daneff, on the previous day, had told General Savoff he must immediately demobilise, as Bulgaria had accepted the Tsar’s offer of arbitration. The Kin«r heatedly told General Savoff that he inn-Jt obey him, and next day he gave him the alternative of either obeying or und ingoing punishment, amounting even to death. General Savoff then agreed to attack if King Ferdinand gave orders in writing, and the King immediately complied. The Government was thus deprived of any voice in the matter. General Savoff hints that King Ferdinand acted at Austria’s suggestion. ATHENS, December 7. Servia is reinforcing her troops on the Bulgarian and Albanian frontiers, on the pretext that she fears attacks by marauding bands on the new Servian territories.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 26
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