The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-13
BALKAN POWERS
ARE PREPARING
FOR new SIEGE
Another War Looms as Armies
Are Being Modified.
Fighting Already in Progress
on Bulgarian Front.
CHRISTIANS BEING MURDERED
Anti Christian Movement in
Turkey Is Spreading.
Bulgaria Joins Turks, While
JugD-SIavia Aids Greeks.


Conflicting advices regarding war
and peace came out of Europe today.
While the disa rmament commission
of the Leag of Nations was accept
ing the plan presented by Lord Robert
Cecil of England, for limitation of
armies, ssord was received that Jugo-
Slavia was beginning to mobilize in
fear of another Balkan war.
Fighting was reported on the Bull
garian frontier IN Thrace with Bull
garian, Greek and Turkish troops in
VolVed. = Russia was reported to be
giving the Bulgarians support on con-
dition that the Bulgars go to war
against Rumania. This report was log
zeal in view of the fact that the allies
had detached the province of BeSsa-
rabia from Russia and given it to
Rumanie.
Turkish newspapers are still clam
cring for a Turkish military move
ment against the allies. unless Thrace.
Adrianople and Anatolia are restored
to the Turks
Tho Greek legation in London
charges Bulgaria with plans to tear
up the treaty of NeuilIy alleging
that the Bqlgars have been in
fluencedz by the Turkish victory over
the Greeks and the Turks refusal to
accept the treaty Of Sevres.
Troops Mobilize
Athens, Sept. 13.-Jugo -Slavia, pre-
pairing for new war in the Balkans,
has begun to mobilize, according to
Information from Sofia today. Jugo-
Slavia and Rumania have both in
formed Greece that they will aid this
country in the event of another war
OF the Balkan powers against Turkey.
London, Sept. 13.-Bulgaria is pre-
pairing to go to war against Greece,
as a result of the Greek defeat by the
Turks, to restore the old Bulgarian
boundary in the southeastern corner
of the Balkans. according to Informal
ton received here today. 1t is re-
ported fighting already has broken
out between Turks, Bulgarian irregu-
lars and Greeks on the southern from
tier of Bulgaria.
The Central News in a dispatch
from Athens says it is reliably in
formed the .Tugo-Slavian and Ruman-
ian governments have evidenced with
out eoufvocation their intention of
aiding Greece in the event of a Balkan
conflict. Serbian troops, it adds, are
being modified and moved in the di-
rection OF Uskub (Skoplie).
Move Against Christians.
Fighting has broken out on the
southern frontier of Bulgaria, be-
tween Turks and Greek and Bulgarian
Christians, according to reports re-
ceived here today from Athens.
The anti-Christian movement in
Turkey is reported to be increasing.
Christian refugees arriving at
Smyrna report the looting of
towns and murder of Greek and Ar
menian Christians.
The Turks have levied similar
charges against the Greek troops
The Greek legation announces that
information has been received from
Athens to the effect that dangerous
concentrations of Bulgarian irreg-
ulars' have been gathered on the new
frontiers of Greece and are threaten
ing to march westward to seize the
territory taken from Bulgaria after
the World war.
Violate Peace Treaty.
The Greeks in Thrace are being
isolated it is reported. The Greeks
charged that the allied orders imposed
upon Bulgaria in the peace treaty are
being disobeyed. Bulgarian irreguIarz
and labor militamen are said to be
enlisting for three-year terms.
The Greek legation in London
charges that the Bulgarians are pre-
pairing I'd tear up the treaty of
Neuilly Just as the Turks overthrow
the treaty of Sevres. The Greeks claim
to have Information from Sofia that
the Bulgarians are receiving the sup
port of Soviet Russia on condition
that the attack be made against Ru-
mania instead of Turkey.
Many Rumors AfIoat.
Athens Sept. Is. - Disquieting
rumors are afIoat on all sides, causing
uneasiness which the sangfroid dis
played in official circles is unable to
calm.
1t is reported that the Turks ir
Thrace, encouraged by the successes OF
Mustapha Renal Pasha army in Ana
tolia are engineering an anti-Christiar
movement. Encounters between Bull
garian irregulars and Greek detach.
ments have occurred along the border
near NevTokop, and it is stated the
irregulars were driven back into Bull
/ garian territory. Citizens of Athens
apparently do not yet fully realize the
extent of the disaster to the Greek
army in Asia Minor.
London Sept. 13.-"Various Amer
lean esta blishments" were among the
premises damaged by the mob in Con
stantinople Sunday, according to q
dispatch to the Daily Express from
Constantinople.
Malta, Sept 13.-The British mill
tary transport Somai bound for India
has been diverted to Malta to take g
British battalion to Constantinople.
May Recall Former Premier.
(By the Associated Press.J
Paris, Sept. 13.-Former Premier
Venizelos of Greece arrived in Pari:
today from Switzerland. His friend:
here declared he planned his present
visit here for conference with politica
and personal friends regarding the sit.
uation in-Athens with a view, it was
felt. TO the possibility of his being
called back to power in Greece.