File No. 763.72/2668
The Chargé in Bulgaria (Einstein) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 8.]
Sir: With further reference to my telegraphic despatches regarding the strained relations between Bulgaria and Roumania, I have the honor to state that the danger of a rupture appears for the present to have disappeared. At the time of my confidential wire No. 63 of March 181 and from what has since transpired it would seem as if the intention had undoubtedly existed here of attacking Roumania. Troops were being rushed to the frontier, the orders had been given to close the Danube, and sixteen cipher telegrams sent by the Roumanian Legation here to Bucharest were all stopped.
[Page 28]There is reason to think that the veto of Germany has been responsible for the change of plan. At the time when the preparations were made, there were supposed to be between fifty and sixty thousand German troops strung along the Danube, and it was doubtless expected to utilize them. But I understand that many have now been withdrawn, presumably to the western front, and that Germany has advised Bulgaria that she desires peace in the Balkans and no extension of her front. If Bulgaria chose to attack Roumania she would have to do so at her risk and without counting on German aid. On the Roumanian side I hear that prompt measures were at once taken to meet the menace; while a note of apology just received by the Roumanian Legation here for the stoppage of telegrams is a somewhat significant indication of the more pacific trend of Bulgarian policy in respect to her northern neighbor.
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