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io 116 INTRIGUES AT SOFIA [chap.viii.
On this occasion it is noteworthy that M. Gueshov,
as soon as he returned from his holiday, was remarkably
frank and correct in his behaviour to me. He confirmed
the information that I had received from a private source
on the conclusion of the Serbo-Bulgarian Military
Convention, and if my memory does not deceive me, the
actual text of this convention was communicated by
Colonel Romanowski to our General Headquarters
Staff.
M. Gueshov even went further in his confidences;
he confided to me that Bulgaria and Serbia had just
made an arrangement with Greece; this arrangement,
in contrast to the Serbo-Bulgarian agreement, was not
concerned with the demarcation of boundaries in
Macedonia, but it was a kind of military convention in case of
" Turkish aggression."
There is one curious detail; whereas M. Gueshov
was displaying so much frankness towards me, the
Greek Government took great care not to communicate
this arrangement to our representative in Athens,
although he was much esteemed and very popular
there. At the end of July I went to Vienna to
meet M. Sverbeieff, to discuss some important private
matters with him. Sverbeieff, who had just left the
post of Athens and was on his way to Berlin, where
he had been appointed Ambassador, heard for the first
time from me that the Greeks had made an arrangement
with Bulgaria and Serbia.
In the first days of July I was more or less agreeably
surprised by the advent of my friend M. A. Goutchkoff
in Sofia. As managing director of one of our principal
insurance companies, he came to Bulgaria and Serbia
to assist at the inauguration of branches of this company.
At least that was the avowed object of his journey, but
in reality the journey was a kind of political inquiry.
In Russian activist circles in which Goutchkoff
possessed undoubted authority, they had got wind of
the events which were shaping in the Balkans, and
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