Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-10-05
UNM0VED
BY ULT|MATUM
Bulgaria Has Been Given
Until Today to Reply
TO Russia
ALLIES LAND FORCE.
Irecian Neutrality Tacitly Abandon
ed in Landing Of Anglo-French
Troops at Salonika.

Athens. Oct. 5-Three Greek sail
pg vessels were pursued and shelIe'
" Bulgarian revenue cutters IN the
Aegean sea, according to reports re
.eived here today. The saimg bark:
escaped undamaged, but the incident
las caused much excitement here.
London. Oct 5-Russia's twenty
.our-hour ultimatum was not hande'
o the Bulgarian foreign office unit
o'clock yesterday afternoon, ac-
ording TO Petrograd dispatches to
.ay.
Bulgaria has until 4 O'Clock this al,
ernoon, Petrograd time, in which tt
ePly.
London. Oct. 5-The time allot,
ed Bulgaria by the Allies, through
,ussia, to turn her back on Germany
,ustria and Turkey, expired yester'
.av afternoon, but the expiration Of
he time limit brought no Immediate
.urface indications to clarity the sit
,ation.
From other points, however, news
,as come of the landing Of French
md British troops at Sa'onika, th'
appearance of the Russian squad
on off the Black sea coast of Bul
saria and the arrival of German ava
ors at Sofia.
Whether the Russian Minister
promptly left the Bulgarian capita.
4: his Government threatened prov
;ided Bulgaria declined to meet the
Russian ultimatum; whether Bull
aria dissembled asking for further
ime, or whether King Ferdinand and
lis supporters merely observe2
silence. was not known in London ii
o II o'clock last night. Either the
censorship or the vagaries OF war
ime cable service or the two COM
,ined resulted in keeping London n
he dark, although definite news is eX-
,ected hourly.
Events have been transpiring, how
.ver. in keeping with the fast ap
preaching crisis involving the entry
If the Balkans in the European con-
:lict. Bulgarian troops, which have
,een on the move for days, have beer
nassed in great numbers along the
Serbian border.
From the central powers side have
ome amplifed reports OF the great
weight of men and metal being piled
lp. preparatory to a blow against
Serbia from that side, as the first
step in what the popular imagina-
ION has accepted as a fact-German
determination to smash through the
.orner of Serbia and link up with
Bulgaria creating new battle front
rom the Austrian border to Constan-
! inople.
DELAYED cables told Of the landing
f the allied troops at Saloniki. With
hese reports arrived comments from
he Athens papers, the ,.gist of which
nas that the appearance of French
and British soldiers in Greece at q
time when Greece was still outwardly
reutral should cause no excitement
that their mission was, as some OF
he Athens papers expressed it, "tc
lefcnd the railway against Bulga-
,ian aggression and give help to Ser
,ia, the ally of Greece"
The Greek Minister at London re
fused to comment on the report tina
.he Hellenic Government considered
the landing of the allied troops ;
violation of neutrality and had for
nally protested to Great Britain ant
France.
Budapest. Oct. 5-A dispatch from
Sofia says that Premier Radoslavof
made the following statement to ad
herents of NJ. Stambuliwsky, leade
of the Agrarians:
Bulgaria may rightly hope it
situation will become better than ever
The events of the near future pro
| mise very favorable results. Bulga
ria will extend its boundaries towar
the northwest and south"