15 APRIL 1916, Page 3

The Balkan correspondent of the Times, in a message to

the paper of Friday week, says that Tsar Ferdinand has been encouraged to believe it possible for Bulgaria to reconquer at least a part of the territory which Roumania seized from her in 1913. As such a Policy is much more popular with Bulgarians than that of trying to storm Salonika—for the beaux yet= of Austria—the Bulgarian rulers are glad to make much of it. In this way the Bulgarian peasant proprietors, who are all longing to be back on their farms, are reconciled to remaining with the colours. We very much doubt, however, whether Germany will consent to Bulgaria con- sulting her own desires. It is Germany who will ultimately decide.