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Show ULTIMATUM- IS OTTO SERBS, SAYS BERLIN Bulgarians Are Expected to Fight for Central Powers; Doubt in London as to Intention of Ferdinand. GREEKS TAKE OVER MERCHANT SHIPS Vessels Are to Be Used to Transport Troops; Prince Nicholas May Command Com-mand Army. (Special Cftbl by ArrnrLgnnrMit with London Dally Telegraph nl Inleranllnnal Newt 9rric.j LONDON, Sept. 27. A Berlin mes-sago mes-sago today states if. is rumored that King Kordinand of Bulgaria has served an ultimatum on Serbia demanding the immediate cession of Serbian Macedonia as the price of Bulgaria's continued neutrality. A Daily Telegraph special from Bucharest says: In certain political circles it is believed Bulgaria will not attack Serbia so as not to provoke tho intervention in-tervention of Greece. It. is thought she will wait until the Austro-Ger-mans triumph over Serbia and then achieve her object by occupying Macedonia without Greece's having had a pretext for intervention. By this policy Bulgaria would satisfy Germany and might also continue pourparlers with the quadruple quad-ruple entente. Considerable importance is attached at-tached to the news that the allies contemplate landing troops against Bulgaria. If such an event occurred oc-curred it is affirmed that the entry of Rumania into the conflict could not be long delayed and the Austro-GerniHn Austro-GerniHn offensive against Serbia 'with tho aid of Bulgaria would m is-carry is-carry King to Take Charge. King Ferd i n a n d hi m self i pr 8 pa ri n g to take full charge of military operations, opera-tions, although 'rown I'rin-o Boris will be nominal head of the army. General Qekoff will be his assistant. leneral Kutiucheff is to be the new minister of war aod General .lostoff chief of the general staff. Two armies afread v have been completely mobilized. mo-bilized. Greece also has now a hugo army under un-der arms. Rumania, however, is making mak-ing no move toward a general call to the colors. i That Rumania will continue her atti tude of strict neutrality indefinitely, or at leaet until it; is fully determined what, the lineup in the Balkans will be, is indicated in a semi-official statement printed in the Independence Boninaine of Bucharest today. It says: The ministers have unanimously agreed that the mobilisation of Bulgaria Bul-garia and Greece is not of a nature to cause a modifiration of the Rumanian Ru-manian policy. Consequently our troops will remain re-main concentrated upon the frontiers. fron-tiers. Envoys Prepare to Leave. n view of Bulgaria's attitude it is reported from Berlin that the entente representatives aro preparing to leave Sofia. The Bulgarian government has stopped railway service between Serbia and Bulgaria and has forbidden foreign diplomats and consuls to use code in their telegrams. It has issued an order requiring that letters be posted unsealed. un-sealed. The Greek mobilization is proceeding smoothly and already 400,000 men are reported to be under arms. That Greece is fuliv prepared to fulfill her treaty obligations to Serbia and that an agreement agree-ment has been reached whereby alliod troops will be landed at a Greek port to strike at the Bulgarian flank and at ' Constantinople is indicated in dispatches reaching here. That a large Anglo-French Anglo-French army is at the disposal of Serbia Ser-bia is practically certain. A Paris dispatch dis-patch quotes Stephen Pichon, the former French foreign minister, as saying: At this time the French and Eng-lish Eng-lish must already have troops on shore at the terminus of the Serbian Ser-bian line of supplies. In addition to tho 400,000 Greeks already al-ready reported mobilized, it is stated in dispatches from Athens that fully 500,-000 500,-000 are expected to return from foreign countries to fight for their native land. Hadiograms from Berlin indicate that there is a feeling of certainty in Germany Ger-many that Bulgaria will join the central empires. Hope of Greece regaining control con-trol if Bulgaria attacks Serbia seems to have disappeared, but it is hinted that if Greece does attack Bulgaria a large Turkish army from the Tchatalja lines wTil immediately be given free passage through Bulgaria fr an attack upon the Greeks. The entire Greek population of Smyrna is in danger of expulsion, it is reported, and Count Hohenlohe, who left Athens today for Berlin, is said to be the bearer of an autograph letter from the sultan to the kaiser stating that the Greeks in Smyrna are a standing impediment imped-iment to the young Turks ' programme for a regeneration of Turkey on national na-tional lines. Serbian aviators who have just completed com-pleted a long reconnoiteriog expedition report the presence of Austrian troops along the frontier, but say they saw no Germans. Large numbers of German troops, however, are reported to he passing pass-ing through southern Germany toward Austria for use in the Balkan drive. |