24 MAY 1913, Page 1

While the Powers and the Allies are thus marking time

in London, local feeling between the Bulgarians and Greeks in Macedonia appears to be growing more and more exasperated. A telegram from Salonica to Friday's Times states that the Bulgarian forces lately occupied the neutral zone that had been marked out between the two armies, and that upon this fighting began and continued on Thursday "apparently with great fury," "artillery being freely used to cover an infantry attack." The telegram goes on to state that owing to the very large reinforcements brought in by the Bulgarians they are now much stronger in the district in dispute than the Greeks. It is also stated that the situation in Salonica is causing great anxiety, as the bulgarians are said to be planning a military and scholastic demonstration on the occasion of the fete of Cyril Methodius, which takes place to-day. Probably neither Power will care to push matters to the last extremity, but when troops are in collision in the way described above, anything may happen. A point which tends to make matters specially alarming is the information that Servia and Greece have come to an arrangement "excluding Bulgaria" from a large part of the conquered territory. The most recent news in regard to Albania and the delimitation of its frontier and its internal Organization is very meagre. A telegram from Vienna to Friday's Times states, however, that an effort is being made by the local leaders in Albania to " rush " the Powers into the choice of a prince for the new State.