Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-25
GREEK AND BULGAR
EXPECTED TO BEGIN
HOST|L|T|ES SOON
Athens Forces Will Go to Aid
of Serbia if Invasion
Is Attempted.
GREAT CONFEDERATION
IN BALKANS NEARER
Rumania Also May Join War When
Fuse Is Touched
Off.
GREEKS RUSH PREPARATIONS
Parliament to Be Asked to Declare
Martial Law and Other Plans
Made-Mobilization Goes
on Quietly.

LONDON, September 25.-Al-
though Bulgaria still refuses to
make known the definite purpose
of her mobilization, the action OF
Greece in making all military
preparations for conflict. indi-
Gates an early clash between
these countries. A general Bal
kan conhagration is expected to
break out hourly, as Bulgars al
ready are massed on the Serbian
frontier, and in case of clash
Greece, it is expected, will come
to Serbia's S rescue. Rumania also
will fall in line with Greece and
Serbia, it is declared.
Great relief has been caused
Throughout. Greece by the order
calling for the mobilization of the
army. The people apparently are
glad to exchange the uncertain
ties OF politics for the possibility
Of war, dispatches declare. In un-
official circles at Athens It is be-
lieved that a struggle between
Greece and Bulgaria cannot be
avoided eventually.
Greek mobilization is under
way today, and is proceeding
quietly. The people are some
what bewildered by the latest
turn OF events, not knowing
whittier it may lead them.
King Constantine, who recently
passed through severe illness,
is indisposed, and his conferences
with Premier Venizelos have been
postponed tor a day.
Will Proclaim Martial Law.
| A Havad dispatch from Athens via
! Paris says:
! PARLIAMENT will be called upon at
it's session next Wednesday not only
upon declaring a state of siege in Mace
l
tion may demand.
| "The National Bank will advance
| funds to meet the present needs
I 1T is reported from Sofia that Bull
garian mobilization is being carried
out normally. but without enthusiasm"
| A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company from Athens says:
Without distinction of parties the
press unanimously approves the meas
ures taken by the government in de-
'All Greek steamers have been requi-
sitioned. A moratorium will be i'm
mediately established.''
spurn Bulgarian Call.
Reuters correspondent in Moscow
says that Bulgarian colonists in that
| city have declined to obey the call to
the colors. They telegraphed to King
Ferdinand and to Bulgarian statesmen
messages deprecating a campaign
against Serbia. stating that they would
never participate in a fratricidal war
A dispatch to the Paris Temps from
Saloniki states that Bulgaria has been
| sending troops toward the Serbian
frontier for several days. Five cavalry
regiments, recruited on a peace basis
have been dispatched toward the bor-
der. the dispatch says, and infantry
regiments on the frontier have been re-
inforced by troops taken from regi-
ments in the interior
| battalion of sappers from Sofia has
been sent to Duynitza, near the Ser
| bian frontier. Mounted artillery has
departed for an unknown destination.
Crown Prince to Head Armies.
! The Paris Temps says that operating
against Serbia will be intrusted to the
direction Of Gen. Boyadjieff as COM
mander in the field. 1t is said Crown
Prince Boris will be at the head of the
Bulgarian armies. and that the chief
| of the general staff will be Gen
Bestoff, now commander of the seventh
division, or the minister of war, Gen
Jecoff who would be replaced by Gen
Koutincheff. now inspector general.
The, Temps correspondent says the
strength of the army Is estimated al
|2335OO men, with 1850 cannon. Stu
dents at the military school have Joined
their regiments.
Call on Sir Edward Grey.
! The Greek, Rumania and Serbian
ministers successively visited Sir Ed.
ward Grey at the foreign Office. The
lGreek minister formally communicated
Ito the secretary of state for foreign
Iaffairs the telegram from his govern.
iment announcing that sin view Of the
mobilization of Bulgaria, the Hellenic
government considers it measure OF
elementary prudence to order a gem
eral mobilization of the Hellenic naval
land military forces" =
! It is.estimated that in addition to the