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Show ARMISTICE PLEA DENIED, THOUGH PARLEY SANCTIONED PA.RIS. Sept. 27. General Franchet d'Esperey. commanding the allied armies in Mace'd'oniH., has telegraphed to the French government that a high Bulgarian Bulgar-ian officer has presented himself In behalf be-half of General Torodow, commanding the Bulgarian armv, asking the suspension of arms for forty-eight hours to permit the arrivrl of two authorized delegates from the Bulgarian government. The minister of finance. Llaptcheff. and General Loukoi'f. commanding the Bulgarian second army, are on their way to the French headquarters with the assent as-sent of King Ferdinand to arrange the' conditions of the armistice and eventually the terms of peace. The French commander reports that tne Bulgarian report reached him through an ntermediarv, the general commanding the British army In the t-ast, forming a part of the allied command. General d Es-nerev's Es-nerev's reply therefore asked the Bulgarian Bul-garian delegates to present themselves to the British lines. . General d Esperey says that, as the Bui- garian requist mlKht be a military ruse to allow the reroupln of forces and the arrival of reinforcements, he inade a reply declining to grant an armistice, but promising to receive duly qualified government gov-ernment delegates. |