The Mir of January 9th publishes an interesting semi- official
account of the formation of the Balkan Alliance. While admitting that the idea was due at the outset to foreign inspiration, it asserts that the basis of the alliance was arrived at by the Bulgarian and Servian Prime Ministers in a meeting held in the train between Servia and Bulgaria. Sofia was throughout the focus of negotiation, the alliances between Bulgaria and Servia. (March 16th), Bulgaria and Montenegro. Bulgaria and Greece (May 29th), being all concluded there. On August 13th King Ferdinand presided over the Cabinet Council at which it was resolved to propose to the Allies of Bulgaria to declare war jointly on Turkey should she fail to carry out the reforms specified by the Berlin Treaty in her European provinces. The Times correspondent at Sofia states that he can confirm these details, and adds that while in the Bulgarian Treaty of March 16th the new frontier was pro- visionally fixed, the Greco-Bulgarian Treaty left the common boundary to be settled by subsequent negotiations.
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