File No. 763.72111/391
The Minister in Roumania, Servia, and Bulgaria (Vopicka) to the Secretary of State
Bucharest, August 19, 1914.
[Received September 19.]
Bulgarian Series]
No. 122]
Sir: I have the honor to report, in confirmation of my recent telegrams, that while martial law has been ordered and the Bulgarian Army has been practically placed upon a war footing, mobilization has not formally been decreed, and the policy of neutrality announced by the Bulgarian Government upon the outbreak of hostilities between Servia and Austria-Hungary remains unchanged.
The general mobilization of the Turkish Army has occasioned considerable misgivings in Bulgaria, for as Lieutenant Miles, our Military Attaché in Sofia, has advised me, the Bulgarians are apprehensive of a Turkish advance. As a result of Turkish mobilization train service between Bulgaria and Turkey has been interrupted, but upon the request of the Bulgarian Government, twice-weekly train service between Sofia and Constantinople and Sofia and Dedeagach has been instituted. The Bulgarian Government further requested [Page 111] without success that the Turkish troops upon the frontier be withdrawn.
I will continue to keep the Department informed upon the developments in Bulgaria.
I have [etc.]