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Show No Military Operations Can Now Be Suspended. Sus-pended. WHAT PLEA INVOLVES: Complete Rupture With' All the Central Powers. i WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. Bulgaria j is out of the war, in the opinion of Stephen Panateroff, Bulgarian minis-, ter here, vho believes that li is coun-( try definitely is determined to abandon its alliance with Germany and Austria, Aus-tria, and, if thc entente allies refuse to listen to peace overtures, will ap-; peal to thc United States to use its' good offices. j WASHINGTON, Setft. ; '28 Mr. Pan-arctoff Pan-arctoff said his country would be will-, ing to let settlement df the issues rest in the hands of such a country as the United States "according to justice as announced by President Wilson." The minister did not pretend to have any advices or instructions from his government, for he completely out of touch with Sofia but he said his opinion opin-ion was based confidently upon knowledge know-ledge of the views of the statesmen and people of Bulgaria. LONDON, Sept. 2S. Great Britain has replied to the Bulgarian request for an armistice. The reply, it is stated, stat-ed, is fully covered by the answer given giv-en the Bulgarian representatives by the commander of the allied army on the Macedonian front. By this reply it Is perfectly well defined that no military mili-tary operations can be suspended. At the same time regarding tho proposal pro-posal that duly accredited Bulgarian representatives should confer with tho allies on the question of freace, it has been made quite clear to the Sofia government gov-ernment that such a peace necessarily involves a complete rupture by tho Bulgarian government with Turkey, Germany and Austria-Hungary. The allied governments necessarily demand every guarantee which they consider necessary vto them to safeguard safe-guard their military operations and prevent the dispatch of German troops to Bulgaria. Bulgarian Proposal Discussed. In discussing the Bulgarian proposal, pro-posal, it is pointed out the allies have no intention of attempting to make a final territorial settlement In thc Bal-knns Bal-knns which obviously must be a matter mat-ter for consideration at the peace conference. con-ference. The question, it is slated, is one of tho conclusions of such a military agreement as would prevent any fur-thelr fur-thelr danger from the Bulgarian side to the operations of the allies in the Balkans. This implies the demobilization of the Bulgarian army or Its employment elsewhere against Bulgaria's present allies. No steps In the territorial questions Involved will be taken without the fullest full-est co-operation and support of Greece and Serbia, but one of thc essentials of any preliminary agreement must bo the evacuation by Bulgaria of all territory ter-ritory outside Bulgaria proper occupied occu-pied by her armies since the outbreak of the war. If the terms laid down, which have ' been dispatched lo Sofia are not ac-1 ceptable to the Malinoff government. the allied powers, it is added, have no further conditions to propose and it will rest with Bulgaria to find other representatives who can accept theso conditions. |