BULGARIA AND TURKEY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 5

BULGARIA AND TURKEY.

POURPARLERS BROKEN OFF

GERMAN PRESS CAMPAIGN.

London, July 17

Salonika messages declare that poux*parlors between Bulgaria and Turkey have been broken off consequent on the German successes in Galicia.

The Turks refuse to cede territory in Demotika, Upon the contrary, they hope to possess themselves of the whole of the Adrianople-Dedeagatch railway.

The German Foreign Office has opener! a violent Press campaign for the benefit of the Balkans, especially Roumania. It is asserted that Russia and Britain have long agreed on a division of the war spoils, and that their scheme would be fatal to all other interested Powers. Russia, it is said, is to have a free hand, in the whole of the Balkans, Hungary, and Galicia, and possession of the' Black Sea c®ast as far as the Bosphorus, also Thrace, and Armenia. England is to be supreme in Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and j

Arabia. Turkey is to become an AngloRussian protectorate. Prance and Italy are to receive minor compensations.

Germany urges, the Balkans, Rcumania particularly, to come to an immediate decision, and meet the urgent demands of Germany.

''The Times" advises Roumania not to listen to the German Foreign Office Press campaign. It believes that Roumania will nob be deceived or intimidated, by German bullying.