Evening star., 1944-08-31
Stern Russian Rebuke
To Bulgaria. Bo|sters
Allied Talks Of Peace
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 31.-Moscow
today accused Bulgaria of aiding
the Germans after protesting
neutrality, with the Russian
press declaring the only hope
for the Bulgars to save them
selves would be by active war
against the Nazis.
This sharp rebuke came as Bull
garian armistice delegation was held
virtually prisoners in Cairo awaiting
Allied terms. The formal presenta-
ton was delayed pending return
from America in a few days of
Lincoln MacVeagh, United States
Ambassador to the exile Greek and
Yugoslav governments.
Consultations with some of the
Allies, especially the Greeks and
Yugoslavs whose lands have been
occupied by bulgarian troops, were
believed not yet completed.
Role Won't Be Forgotten"
The Moscow press charged that
Bulgaria, after declaring her neu-
trality, had made an agreement with
the Germans whereby Hitler would
be allowed to withdraw troops and
munitions from the country.
Sofas failure to intern armed
German ships and crews in Bull
garian waters and the role Bulgars
played and are playing in Greece
and Yugoslavia will not be forgotten.
they asserted.
Russia and Bulgaria are not at
war
The maneuver of the Bulgarian
government will not fool anybody,
and the Allies are taking this into
full account" a Moscow broadcast
said.
Thus, as Romanian delegation
reached Moscow to formalize that
countrys armistice and Red Army
hordes drove more deeply into Ro-
mania and Pennsylvania, the stage
was set for collapse of Hitlers Bal
kan ramparts.
Germans Bomb Bucharest.
An Ankara dispatch said Ro-
manian signature of an armistice in
the Russian capital appeared likely
within 48 hours. Romanian troops
already are fighting beside the Rus
slams
Ankara reports said the Germans
bombed Bucharest. causing heavy
damage in residential districts.
These same reports said Gen. Ges-
tenbere, I'D of the German air
mission il Romania, was taken
prisoner. but escaped
Quoting a Tass dispatch from the
Romanian port of Constanta, where
Soviet troops stand only % miles
from the Bulgarian border, the Mos
COW radio declared that by all indi-
cations Bulgaria announced herself
neutral lin order to enable the
Germans to hide in Bulgaria from
prosecution by the Allies
This broadcast said German Black
Sea naval vessels, including sub
marines had found haven in Bull
garian ports, and in violation of
the neutrality proclaimed by Bull
garla. these ships were not subject
to regime of internment."
Moscow declared Bulgarian
troops still were fighting along with
Germans against the Yugoslav
Partisans and the Greeks.
This additional evidence of the
real aims of the Bulgarian govern
ment confirms. as all other factors
do, that the government of Pre-
mier Ivan Bagrianov in reality
doesn't think of bringing about a
radical change in policy Moscow
declared.
Bulgarian propaganda. in raising
a big noise around the declara ton
of neutrality, attempts at the same
time to put into circulation all sorts
of rumors. even going so far as to
act as if Soviet circles had approved
Of the present position. These ma
neuvers have been exposed"
Radio France in Aleiers said an
armistice between Bulgaria and the
Allies might be signed today