The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-27
GREECE AND
BULGARIA TO
CEASE FIRING
Action of League of Nations
Is Sequence to LOcarnO
Conference
RUMANIA INTERVENES
Through Her Mediation Bal
kans Agree to Evacuate
Each Others Territories
GREEKS WITHDRAWING

o>H oSHSl - u ltVI lCS
GREEkS WITHDRAWING
Athens, Oct. 27.-(P)-The
Greek government today ordered
the prompt evacuation Of Bull
Earian territory by its forces.
The movement will h effected
as soon as the Greek frontier
guards have been restored to
their former posts.
Paris, Oct. 27.--[P)-After Locar-
no. Paris; after Lake Marriorc's
code of peace for Europe, stern
pronouncement by Europe that the
more universal peace code, the COW
enant of the League Of Nations, must
be Loyalty followed That is the
message that radiates from Paris to-
day IN connection with the League of
Nations decisive action in ordering
halt in the Greece Bulgarian con-
flict.
The councils warning to the two
Balkan states that they must cease
hostlliticS and withdraw to within
their own frontiers is regarded here
as the logical sequence Of what it
achieved at Locarno in consolidating
European security and as "A concrete
expression of the conviction that if
Europe would survive it must effect
ually stamp out war.
Order Is Emphatic
The order of the council of the
league to Greece and Bulgaria bears
OF no misinterprctation. The belli-
Eerents were informed that the coun-
Mt fiSf
operations had ceased, and a 2l-hour
limit for the issuance of instructions
for withdrawal of the troops was is
sued. The council also fixed upon 60
hours for assurance of the fulfilment
of its orders.
And let it be carefully under
stood declared NJ. BRAND, president
of the council that this time limit
runs from now"
A resumption of fighting vii!
bring severe punishment upon the
belligerents.
Europe has found ITSELF" declared
an eminent statesman after the sit
ting of the epoch making meeting of
the league. "Thank God, men have
found not only the will, but the cour-
age to hit out at war. And don't
forget that what we do in the case
of the Balkans will serve as a pre-
cedcnt for the bigger nations of the
earth
Nations Will Obey Orders
Dispatches reaching Paris during
the night, while they asserted that
the Bulgarians claimed that the
Greeks still are bombarding certain
positions in their territory, said that
Bulgaria would follow the order #
the council. Likewise Greece nas
willing to accept conditionally.
Statesmen connected with the coun-
Gil seemed to see shining forth like
Il beacon in this new page Of Europ-
Britain, for they read, in Foreign
Secretary Austin Chamberlain's ring
ing condemnation Of violations of the
league covenant obligations, that
Great Britain, previously suspected
of lukewarmness toward the league,
had now come out boldly and whole
heartedly in support of it's covenant
and is fighting for its sanctity with
the same fervor with which she COM
bated the famous Geneva peace pro-
tocol.
Diplomats here attribute the con-
fidence which the council demon
strated in the Balkan embroglio
largely to the fact that there now are
growing prospects that Germany will
join the League, submitting to its
peace-insuring fabric and adding
her potent voice to the so nations
who have sworn to outlaw war
TWO NATIONS REACH
A DIRECT AGREEMENT
Paris, Oct. 27.-LR-Grcecc's rep
rcsentative, NJ. Carapane, announced
at the opening of today's meeting of
the League of Nations council that,
through the friendly mediatious of
Rumania, direct agreement has
been reached between Greece and
Bulgaria for evacuation of their re-
spective territories.
The conditions Of the agreement.
he said, were that Bulgarian and
Greek officers should proceed this
afternoon to the frontier to arrange
for the return of the Greek border
guards to their original posts.
The Greek troops in Bulgaria would
begin their withdrawal immediately
and the Bulgarian forces would not
advance in manner to hinder the
Greeks until the latter had crossed
the frontier.
An Athens dispatch last night said
that Greek Bulgarian agreement,
at the suggestion of Rumania. had
been reached prior to yesterdays ac-
tion Of the League Of Nations coun-
Gil in Paris, which ordered Greece
and Bulgaria to withdraw their troops
behind there respective frontiers.
Whether Rumania acted indepen-
IDENTIFY of the league or not. the ef-
feet Of the agreement is to carry out
the conditions laid down by the
league council which stipulated that
the disputing states should issue or
ders for retirement of their troops
within "a hours and be in a position
within GO hours to report that the
evacuation was complete.
LEAGUE MAY ENFORCE
NAVAL BLOCKADE
Paris, Oct. 27.-(P)-A naval dem
onstration before Athens is posi-
BILE League Of Nations move, should
the government of Premier Pangalos
decline to bow to the league councils
decision that it must cease all hos
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