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GREEKS PLAN FOR IMMEDIATE EVACUATION OF BULGARIAN TERRITORY

GREEKS PLAN LEAGUE COUNCIL IS TOLD OF PLANS BY GREEK MEMBER FRIENDLY MEDIATION OF RUMANIA IS SAID TO HAVE ENDED STRIFE BETWEEN NATIONS

By The Associated Press.

ATHENS, October 27.--The Greek government today ordered prompt evacuation of Bulgarian territory by its forces. A movement to withdraw Greek frontier guards to their former posts has been begun.

PARIS, October 27.-Greece's Representative, M. Carapanos, announced at today's meeting of the League of Nations Council that through friendly mediation of Rumania a direct agreement has been reached between Greece and Bulgaria for evacuation of their respective territories.

Conditions of the agreement, he said, were that Bulgarians and Greek officers should proceed this afternoon to the frontier to arrange for the return of the Greek border guards to their original posts.

Greek troops in Bulgaria would begin withdrawal immediately and the Bulgarians would not hinder the Greeks until the latter had crossed the frontier.
NATIONS GIVEN DAY TO WITHDRAW
INTERNATIONAL BODY CONSUMES BUT FEW MINUTES IN DISPOSING OF SITUATION AT PARIS MEETING.
PARIS, October 27. - In the same room where Woodrow Wilson, in the closing days of the peace conference read out the articles of the League of Nations covenant, and where M. Clemenceau, as president, declared them adopted, the council of the League of Nations tonight delivered what is virtually an ultimatum to Greece and Bulgaria that they must unconditionally and within 24 hours order all their troops to retire behind their respective frontiers. It is the first time since the birth of the league that the council has gone so far. Its action constitutes the supreme test of the league's power to break up war. It was carried out in a tense atmosphere in the crowded clock hall of the foreign office, and was accompanied by an admonition from Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, that it would be an intolerable thing - 'indeed an affront to civilization' - if, with all the machinery of the league at their disposal and the council ever ready with its good offices, frontier incidents like those between Greece and Bulgaria should lead to warlike operations, instead of being submitted for peaceful adjustment to the council.
Both Nations Reproved
The resolution, subsequently adopted unanimously, was really a reproof to both Greece and Bulgaria for their failure to obey President Briand's injunction to cease all hostilities and withdraw behind their frontiers. It was framed by Mr. Chamberlain after the Greek representative, M. Carapanos, had told the council that the Greek troops would evacuate Bulgarian soil as soon as all the Bulgarians got out of Greece, and after Bulgarian insistence that Bulgarians are not on Greek soil at all. It declared the council was not satisfied that military operations had ceased and that the troops had been withdrawn, and, after setting a 24-hour limit for the issuance of instructions for such withdrawal, the council fixed 60 hours for assurance of the fulfillment of the orders. 'All troops must be warned that resumption of firing will be visited with severe punishment and both governments, Athens and Sofia, must give facilities to the military officers of France, Great Britain and Italy, who will immediately repair to the war zone and report to the council whether the council's edict has been carried out.'