Bulgaria’s expected entry in the war continued to produce twist and turns, today’s being the news that the Russian ultimatum had been delivered later than thought (not that it had received a reply) on page 9, and the somewhat unbelievable report on page 8 that the Turks had bribed her to come in on the Central Powers’ side with a promise of granting her their capital of Constantinople. It was the turn of Tsar Ferdinand to receive abuse in the leader article, as the paper called him “the ambitious trickster in Sofia” (page 8).