The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-29
A WARMING
To BULGARIA
Allies Will Attack If She
Tries Aggression, Says
Sir Edward Grey
RECALLS FRIENDSHIP
IN SIGNIFICANT SPEECH
Says Germany Seeks to Disrupt Balkan
States and Enslave Those Willing to
Play Her Game-Threats of Action
in Warming is Unheeded.

LONDON, Sept. 29-''If Bulgarian mo-
Eilization should result in Bulgaria assum-
ing an aggressive attitude on the side of
our enemies We are prepared to give our
friends in the Balkans all the support in
our power, in manner that would be
most welcome to them, in concert with our
allies without reserve and without qualifi-
cation" was the pregnant announcement
made by Sir Edward Grey, the British
foreign secretary, in the House of Com
mons yesterday afternoon. He emphasized
the long-standing friendship between Great
Britain and Bulgaria, and added:
Our official information from the Bull
garlan government is that they have taken
lup position of armed neutrality to de
fend their rights and independence, and
that they have no aggressive intentions
whatever against their Balkan neighbor
Not only is there no hostility in this coun-
| try to Bulgaria, but there Is a traditional
warm feeling of sympathy with the Bulga-
rian people So long, therefore, as Bula-
ria does not side with the enemies of
| Great Britain or her allies there can be no
question OF British influence or forces being
fused in any sense hostile to Bulgarian in
iterests, and so long as the Bulgarian atti-
Etude is unaggressive there can be no dis,
Iturbance Of those friendly relations
After making the categorical announce
.ment that if Bulgaria should assume al
aggressive attitude on the side of Great
EBritain's enemies, the government woulC
take action, Sir Edward continued:
eve are, of course, in consultation Will
Jour allies on the situation, and [ believe
1.-THE view | express is theirs also, our polio,
being to secure an agreement in respee
| to the Balkan States which viii insur
leach of them not only independence but
brilliant future, based as a general princi
= pie on territorial and political union an,
: kindred nationality.
''To secure this agreement we recognize
4 that the legitimate aspirations of the Ba
kan States must find satisfaction. TIL
policy of Germany, on the other hand, ha
been to create for her own purposes dis
union and war among the Balkan States
She made use of Austria-Hungary to pr,
cipitate the European war, with the resu
that that empire is completely subordina
ed to Germany and dependent upon he
Turkey, whose interests would hav
been preserved if she had remained nel
tral, has been gratuitously forced by Ge
many into this war, and is now being SUI
ordinated and made dependent on Ge
many in order to realize Germany's aspir
p tions and extend her influence from Berl
- to Bagdad.
Is "In the same way it would naturally |
; Germanys policy so to use any of the Be
= kan States, with the inevitable result TIN
> that state eventually would be subordina
- ed to her and that, though territorial gar
might be promised, she would lose her i
=, dependence.
- = This is directly contrary to the poll
y of the allies, which is to further the L
le tional aspirations Of the Balkan Stat
n without sacrificing the independence of a,
lie 'of them