The Archive · 1925

Bulgaria's Appeal to League

Oct, 23.

It is semi-officially stated that Bulgaria has protested to _the Secretariat of the League Nations requesting the immediate summoning of the Council of, the League of Nations to investigate the Gracco-Bulgar dispute: also that Bulgaria has ordered her frontier guards to withdraw in order to avoid further complication of the Athens, Oct, 22, The Premier has refused—the Bulgarian proposal to form a commission of inquiry into the frontier incident while Bulgarians are on Greek territory.

Further fighting is reported owing' to the Bulgarians resisting the passage of the Greeks advancing to occupy an outpost.

Oct. 23, It is officially reported that the Bulgarians have received reinforeements at Demirkapou. The Greek command is making a circular movements around Petritsi "with a view to compelling the Bulgarians—to evacuate Greek territory."

The fall of Petritsi is considered imminent. The Bulgarians are putting: up a stubborn resistance.

Later.

The Government has stopped the ice of Greek forces in con-nce of a report that the Bul-arians have evacuated Greek territory, The Greeks retain the Positions at present occupied, and will continue to do so until Bulgari replies to the Greek note, trated that Greece abides by the demands embodied in the note, and is not disposed to negotiate on any other basis, Later.

A semi-official report states that the Greek note to Bulgaria is not me tended in the nature of an ulti-datum, though discussion is useless until the terms of the note are!

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