ARMISTICE ENDED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1662, 31 January 1913, Page 5

ARMISTICE ENDED.

' WAR TO BEGIN AGAE GERMAN WARNING TO RUSSIA. "HANDS OFF IN ASIA MINOR!" By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Roc. January 30, 11.40 p.m.)' Sofia, January 30. Tho army headquarters have been ordered to denounce the armistice to-day. General Savoff, the Bulgarian Comman-der-in-Chief, has made a fervent appeal to the army to, prepare for fresh victories. ' London, January 29. • The Allies' Note.to Turkey states that the peace- plenipotentiaries have awaited d reply for three weeks, and that events in Constantinople appear to have destroyed any hope of peace, and that, therefore, negotiations have been broken off. -

The Note has been handed to Reschid Pasha., - The Kumanian and Bulgarian representatives will hold another meeting in London under the shadow of the Ambassadors' Conference. A Beuter raessago states that the Porte is proposing peace concessions on; an entirely new basifl: This is expected to mako. for a solution of the difficulty now existing.

NEUTRALISATION OF ADRIANOPLE. (Rec. January SO, 11.40 p.m.) i Vienna, January 30. It is understood that the Turkish Note Suggests the neutralisation of Adrianople. ... ■''■■■> IF RUSSIA INTERVENES. \ GERMANY. WILL DECLARE WAR. . (Rec. January. 31, 11.40 p.m.) . ■ Vienna, January 30. : The "Reichspost" states that Germany has informed Russia that any action in the Black Sea, or Armenia will constitute a casus belli. . \

The newspaper alleges /that Count Benckendorff, the Russian Ambassador, spoke so harshly at. the last sitting of the Ambassadors' Conference that Sir Edward Grey with difficulty prevented an open conflict. ~

The Government newspapers, however, declare that Russia is anxious to maintain the Powers'in accord, and' that there is absolutely no ground to..'suppose that Russia contemplates isolated action.

RECALLED TO THE COLOURS. (Rec. January 30, 11.40 p.m.) > ■'.'■' " London, January 30. The -"Daily Telegraph's" • Copenhagen correspondent states that Germans and Austrians in Sweden liable ,to service have been ordered ,to return to thoir respective 'countries. V Armenians, who are in peril owing to the fanaticism,of the Kurds, are appealing for Russian protection. Seventy thousand Russians aro mobilised on the Turkish-Armenian frontier. '■!.'■ : ' "HANDS OFF!"'

.''•■"'" ' A Constantinople, January 23, '. The German 'Ambassador, in : '.Turkey, Baron-von. Wangenheim, speaking at- a banquet, said-'"Turkey's future lies in Asia Minor. "Germany's, interests there aro bound up with those of Turkey. Germany's injunction is: 'Hands off Turkish possessions in Asia Minor.'" ' ' "'

RUMANIA'S DEMANDS. A PROTOCOL SIGNED. (Rec. January .30, 11.20 p.m.) ■> .. ~-'■■■•■ London, January 80. Tho Rumanian Minister and Dr. Daneff, on behalf of Bulgaria, have signed a protocol as a basis for further negotiations. Rumania asks for a frontier line extending from Turtuka to Balchik. ; Reuter states that the'German'loan to Rumania is not conneoted with the present situation. : ,''-.. ~ ■ •. ,'.,. .-•• St. Petersburo, January 29., The Russian press condemns Germany's financial help'to Rumania at the present juncture:

; SERVIAN REGICIDE RECALLED* '. (Rec. January 80, 0.40 a.m.) 1 Belgrade, January 30. Ukase recalls to military service Colonol Pdpovitch, who was retired in 1906 at England's request as the ringleader in the conspiracy for the murder of King Alexander and Queen Draga. ;'

; -.-i GREEK ENGAGEMENT. i ' Athens, January 29. The Crown 'Prince of Greece shelled and blew up a Turkish magazine at Bizani. '' •' The Greeks then captured two lines of entrenchments. . ~..■'•>

NON-COMBATANT LOSSES. London, January 29.' The Constantinople correspondent of "The Times" estimates that 20,000 Moslem and 15,000 Christian non-combatants havo been killed during the war. '