The Times correspondent in the Balkans in a despatch from
Sofia dated September 13th states that the relations of Roumania with the Central Powers have reached a critical stage. According to his ihformation, the German Govern. meat in a recent Note have demanded permission for the passage of Austro-German troops through Roumanian territory, and also the fulfilment of an undertaking on the part of Roumania to supply benzine and other requisites to the value of £8,000,000. He adds that more than two thousand German wagons laden with war material are said to be waiting at the Roumanian frontier. Mean- while the Bulgarian Ministry of War have called to the colours all members of the Macedonian Bulgarian bands, as well as all Bulgarians of Macedonian or Thracian origin between the ages of twenty and forty, their object being to enrol all available elements among the refugees who have not hitherto served in the Army.
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