The unfortunate side of this arrangement was that Bulgaria was
not unnaturally displeased. The "Karagatch triangle " means a bridgehead south of the Arda with a frontier running from the Arda, including Demirtash, and joining the. Maritza near Bosnakeui. The railway between the Arda and Lule Burgas will therefore run, as the Times correspondent points out, for about seven and a-half miles through Turkish territory. This evidently clashes with the Treaty of Neuilly, which guarantees the economic outlets of Bulgaria to the Aegean Sea. More- over, Bulgaria objects to Turkey being rewarded with a present of land lost by Bulgaria in a war in which she was the ally of Turkey. The Allies have since proposed that the League of Nations should be responsible for the freedom of the railway. Bulgaria will, of course, desire some better access to 'the sea, but now that the will to peace is shown to exist we are very. hopeful of a real settlement, * * *
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