Les pays du Sud-est européen dans la Grande Guerre (1915). Trois reportages d’Albert Londres et les mémoires de Gheorghe Jurgea-Negrileşti
The South-East European Countries in the First World War (1915). Three Feature Reports of Albert Londres and the Memoirs of Gheorghe Jurgea-Negrileşti

Summary/Abstract: A famous French reporter, Albert Londres (1884-1932), has visited Bucarest, Sofia andThessaloniki in July-December 1915. His articles published in Petit Journal were occasioned byhis mission on the Turkish front. In Romania, he has observed how the two coalitions are makingstrenous attempts to convince the governement to enter the war. He noted the sympathy for theEntente and especially for France of the most part of the political class and public opinion, and the payments made by Germany to corrupt politicians or newspapers. In Bulgaria, the situation was not yet clear. London was just to remark that the conquest of the entire Macedonia was the main issue that would determine how the government in Sofia will act. The third article describes how the city of Thessaloniki, the headquarters of general Sarrail, was full of German and Austrian spies, whose presence was enabled by the neutrality of Greece in that moment.The other subject of the study concerns some fragments of the memoirs of Gh. JurgeaNegrileşti, about the Russian fleet sent to Serbia through Reni and Galaţi in September 1914.Prince P. Urusov declared on that occasion that Russia had the intention to occupy the Danubefrom Galaţi to Cernavodă.

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