BULGARIA'S POSITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 28

BULGARIA'S POSITION.

SOFIA, September 30. M. Malinoff lias refused to co-operate in M. Radoslavol'f’s Cabinet, believing that Bulgaria ought to be on the side of the Quadruple Entente. MM. Toucheff and Belakof have re-entered the Cabinet. ATHENS, September 30. Bulgaria has reinforced her Grseco-Ser-bian frontier. Three divisions have been sent to Maronia and three others to Forneef, and a large force to Dcdeagatch, in case of an attack by sea Four German submarines have been seen at Varna. THE AUSTRO-GERMAN THREAT. PARIS, September 30. Le Temps’s Nish correspondent estimates that half a million Austro Germans are massed on the Serbian frontier, including 1000 Germans. ATHENS, September 30. A French official wireless message states that German officer's are at Sofia conferring with the Bulgarian Staff in preparation for an anti-Serbian campaign. LONDON, September 30. Athens reports assort that 300,000 Austro-Germaus are advancing towards Orsova. The Serbians are ready and confident. GREECE'S MOBILISATION. ATHENS, September 30. A crowded Chamber gave M. Venizelos an ovation when he justified Greece’s mobilisation. M. Gounaris announced on behalf of the Opposition that they recognised that the Government had no alternative but to mobilise the army. M. Venizelos, in a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, said that notwithstanding mutual Greek and Bulgarian assurances that mobilisation had no aggressive aim, the situation must be regarded as serious. Mobilisation led to enormous expenditure, and its prolongation endangered peace. The danger was all the greater when one of the mobilised countries did not disguise that the territorial status quo established by treaty was unsatisfactory. Only simultaneous demobilisation could eliminate the danger.