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Show SERBIA TOME " London Diplomats Believe Efforts of Entente Allies Will Come to Naught. LONDON, A(;g. ii-JtJ p. m. fde-triyd fde-triyd by rensor). There are strong indications in-dications that Serbia w:l give a flat rf ual to the demands announced by t he liiilg-jiriau premier. Vasil tiados-hnon". tiados-hnon". throo weeks ago, and that the hopes of the entente allies of bringing Bulgaria into the alliance will come to naught, according to some diplomat ri'-ie. Serbia's foi n;al reply has not yet been given, hut those beVt posted in diplomatic quarters say that Bulgaria's demands lar exceed anything that Ser-could Ser-could posMbiv yield. Bulgaria is the chief obstacle, to united action by the Haikan states in joining the entente allies and throwing throw-ing the Haikan barrier between the cen-1 tral powers and Turkey. ! Bulgaria now contends that by a ; treaty with Serbia the latter ceded to Bulgaria about 7000 square kilometers of Macedonia, which Bulgaria was compel led bv the great powers to re-liuquihh re-liuquihh during her enfeebled condition after the Bulgarian war. Bulgaria in-! sists that the original treaty he carried out and that unless she secures the return re-turn of Macedonia she will refuse to ioin the other Balkan states in assist- ' mg the allies. The present issue has renewed the : smoldering feuds" among the Balkans: and much bitterness is said to have He- veloped in tho course of the negotia- ! tions, all pointing to Serbia's refusal to yield Macedonia and to Bulgaria withholding her support from the entente en-tente powers. Officials on both sides say, however, that the negotiations have not been abandoned and that much depends upon the attitude of the Serbian Ser-bian parliament, which is to meet next Monday, although personally they see little prospect of accord. , , |