South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-01
HUN STRIVING
To KEEP HOLD
ON BULGARIA
Ion MaCkenSen'S Army Can't
Accomplish Results With
Rank and File of Nation
Against Germany.
BN' JOHN EDWIN NEVIN.
International News Service.


WASH1NGTO$. oct. Ger
many and the entente are in a race
for the military control Of Bulgaria.
The advantage is with the entente.
The rank and dle Of tho Bulgars
heartily endorse the acceptance OF
peace by their leaders. Her aban-
Comment of tne central powers is ac-
copied here as i'm good faith and the
resentment against the AustrO- Ger
mans for their plight is certain to
be very great ON the part OF the
Bulgarians As a result military
experts here toduy declared that
Germr IS efior, t) rush troops un-
der vo-I MacHeusen has come too
late.
10 is true. they say that the Ger
man field marshal. with certain di-
visions, may be in Sofia at present.
But ne can hardly maintain his pos
ition there handicapped as he is
with poor communications and ar
increasingly difficult situation in
Roumania where an anti-Germau
revolt already is assuming goodly
proportions.
Speculate ON Next Move
So well convinced are officials
here that all Of the advantage is
with the entente that they are spec
ulating on the next move
There is general hope expressed
in many quarters today that it will
DE against Turkey which was de-
scribed as "a ripe persimmon after
the frost had bit it--ready TO fall
at the slightest touch"
10 was believed here by the mill
tarv experts that il the army OF
Gen. Franchet d Esperey should be
turned toward Tchataldja i'm a for
midable movement toward Turkey
that nation would Internationally
surrender and il would not be neces-
sary 10 actually commence opera
tions. These officials declare that
the movement TO. follow Bulgaria s
example. first reported in these dis
patches last Saturday night. is much
more powerful than any official adj
vices indicate.
Turks Watch Bulgar Move
Only personal appeals by the Ger.
man leaders and the young Turks
who are in the pay of the kaiser
have held Turkey i'm line until now
they say. And. these officials. who
are in receipt OF much confidential
information dealing with the Turk
ish situation, say that even now
Turkey is only waiting to see wheth-
er Germany can carry out any seri-
Gus reprisals on Bulgaria before
asking for terms. But If she does
not ask for terms the elimination oi
Turkey will be a very easy task as
she can now be attacked I'm force
from Thrace, Asia Minor. and Meso-
potamia-
May Rc-eetablish Roumania.
A part st least Of Gen. d'Es.
perey's army can be expected tC
make an advance into Austro- Hun
gary BY way OF the Danube front
The irst outcome OF the elimination
OF Bulgaria viii be the re-esta blish.
ment OF an eastern front by the al
lies Then there is every reason tc
believe that with Turkey eliminated
the allied naval forces viii pass
through the Dardanelles into the
Slack sea and re-esta bIish Rou-
mania as an ally OF the entente. II
is known here among diplomats
that Great Britain and France Ions
ago sent word 90 ROumaria that
they would aid in blotting out the
German-msde treaty of Bucharest
where the Teutonic military machine
exacted it's pound OF flesh from a
nation rendered helpless by the de-
sertion OF her ally. Russia.