Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25
SERVIAN CABINET
IN SECRET SESSION
ON BULGAR TERMS
Allies Are Confident Nish Will
Accede to Sofas Demands,
Thus Renewing Balkan
League
KING PETER PRESIDING

LONDON, Aug. 25.
Everything in the Balkans now hinges
apparently. on the decision OF the
servian Parliament, now in secret session
at Nish, in the matter Of concessions
to Bulgaria in Macedonia. The gem
eral atmosphere here is one of con-
idence that the allied diplomats have
succeeded In bringing the matter TO a
successful Issue and that servia win
ncccede to the counsels of her greater
allies
There is a general feeling that the
decision may be much more conh-
IDENTIFY left to Servla. where the disturb
ing counsels OF Germany and Austria
have no chance to be heard, than to the
still neutral Balkan powers and it is be-
lleved that In securing from Bulgaria
statement of terms to which Servia can
honorably accede, the allied diplomats
already have won their victory.
The announcement of Servia's decision,
however, is not expected for two or three
days, as in view of the momentous nature
of the case the Parliament is, IT is under
stood, insisting on going fully into all
the details of the matter. A Reuters
dispatch from Nish says that the
Government has encountered considerable
opposition, but that IL is expected that
substantial agreement will be reached and
the proposals of the intermediary powers
accepted, with at most n few minor
reservations.
The final decision, this dispatch states,
will probably be reached today at an
extraordinary council of the Ministers Of
State, King Peter himself presiding.
At the same time II is the view In dip
10 s.fr hat MI ri
view of the departure of an italian ex-
pedition for the Dardanelles, cannot af-
ford to delay much longer her acceptance
or rejection of the terms offered, with all
the chances favoring her acceptance.
1t is pointed out in military, as we'll as
diplomatic circles that with the arrival
of a large italian force at the Dardanelles
the value of Bulgarian cooperation is
bound to decrease, Is, in fact, already
decreasing almost daily, and with it the
chance of Bulgaria for obtaining better
terms for her services. Consequently, the
reports that Bulgaria is already massing
troops on her Turkish frontier are gem
orally credited here.
Meanwhile. the general feeling in Con-
stantinople, according to dispatches from
Sofia, is rapidly becoming one of great
depression, verging on hopelessness. Both
bread and coal are becoming increasing
ly short, and the constant stream of
wounded pouring in from the .Gallipoli
Peninsula, where violent fighting contin-
ues, exercises a depressing influence on
the populace
The Exchange Telegraph Company re-
ports from Amsterdam that the Wolff
Bureau of Berlin says that Bulgarias 8
negotiations with Turkey have come to
an end, and that while some of the papers
interpret this as meaning that an agree
ment has been reached, there is little
hope that such an agreement bears on
Bulgarias attitude in the war.
The Cologne Gazette says a dispatch
from that city reports that the railways
of Rumania have received orders to place
all their rolling stock at the disposal of
the Minister of War on September H.