Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-02
Bulgarian Fall
 Will End Four
 Years Tragedy

London, Oct 1-The loss of the Bulgarians to the central alliance is regarded by the London morning pa pers as foreshadowing the end of the great four years tragedy.
 The editorial writers for the most part unable to see how Turkey can avoid following the Bulgarian lead, while some believe that Austro-Hun. gary must do the same.
 For Germany it is held that the surrender spells ruin to her hopes in the middle east and her aspirations of world empire.
 We have come to a solemn mom- ent is this greatest of all wars and in the long process of civilization" says the Times, "it is no time for exultation, but we may recognize in this great event the first clear rn- mistakabl presage that the confed- eracy of our enemies is tottering to it's fall.
 "The entire surprise which Bull garia's deserton is to the peoples of the central powers cannot fail to en- chance the moral consequence of the shock"
 The Daily Telegraph says:
 "lt must bring the GeGrman rulers face to face with the unpleasant fact that the jkeystone has fallen out of the arch of Pan-German designs, and should Turkey ollow in the steps of Bulgaria, the whole Pan-German fam ric falls to pieces like a house of cards"
 The Morning Post says:
 lnu hn1 jr heaviest blow in the near east since Frederick Barbarossa perished in the first attempt to establish a Berlin Bagdad route.
 "The allies have cut the Achilles tendon of the outstretched German foot"
 The Daily News, which sees the whole German position in France startling near the point of dissolu- | tion as a result of recent military successes by the allGies there, calls attention to the fact that the kings of Saxony and Bavaria recently visited Sofia and that King Ferdinand, ac- cording to it's information, now is in Vienna.
 Germany, if reports from neutral center can be relied upon, is going to make a great effort to maintain communication over the orient rail- way with Turkey. and thus hopes to keep her eastern ally in the war
 According to The Hague dispatch to the Central News, 250,000 Germans and Austro-Hungarian troops have arrived at Sofia from Rumania and while part of these vii remain in Sofia as an argument favoring the overthrow of the MalinOff government the majority will endeavor to keep the allied troops rom. the Orient rail- way which joins Germany and Aus tria with Constantinople the capture of which was a few years ago hailed as the greatest achievement of the central powers.
 The removal of the troops from Rumania, however is not without danger A few weks when appealed to by his colleagues on the western front for assistance Field Marshal Von Mackensen reported that condi- tions in Rumania did not warrant the transfer of a single soldier
 Rumanians are predicting that if their country does not rejoin the al- lies, there will be at least rising in that country Wnlcn Will complelely nullify the Bucharest treaty so far as it provides for revictuallin2 the cen tral powers.
 German papers eXpres suspicion of the crown council held Sunday osten sibly for a discussion of the crown princes marriage, but at which other matters might be discussed.
 The presence at this council of EX premier Bratiano who is strongly for the allies. was strongly commented upon by the German press.