2 OCTOBER 1915, Page 14

There have been strange vicissitudes in the Balkans since the

Bulgarian mobilization which we recorded last week. On Thursday week M. Venezelos had an audience with the King of Greece, and expressed the view that a Greek mobilization was the only possible reply to the attitude of Bulgaria. The King agreed to the step, and signed a Decree for the mobiliza- tion of twenty classes of the Reserve, which was published that night. The total available fighting strength of Greece is estimated at three hundred and fifty thousand men. Four classes are already with the colours. On Friday week the Greek Minister informed Sir Edward Grey that his Govern- ment regarded the mobilization as a "measure of elementary prudence."