IN THE BALKANS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1680, 21 February 1913, Page 5

IN THE BALKANS.

WINTER CAMPAIGNING. BULGARIA AND RUMANIA WILL ARBITRATE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyritht (Rec. February 20, 11.5 p.m.) - London, February 20. Lord Morley (Lord President of tho Council), replying to Lord Lainington in tho Houso of Lords, said that it was impossible for foreign Governments to investigate alleged atrocities against Mohammedans ill Macedonia and Thrace. Tho Balkan Governments, said Lord Morley, Iyd already affirmed the taking of stringent precautions to protect inhabitants. MORE REASONABLE. BULGARIA AND RUMANIA. (Rec. February 20, 11.5 p.m.) , St. Petersburg, February 20. It is reported that Bulgaria and Rumania are willing that Italy and Russia should arbitrate upon their differences, under Great Britain's auspices. BULGARIANS m DIFFICULTIES. (Rec. February 20, 11.5 p.m.) Constantinople, February 20. Boisterous weather aiid frequent snowstorms have checked hostilities. The Bulgarians are in difficulties with regard to their supplies, owing to the state of the roads. (\ " A DECIMATED ARMY. ■ MONTENEGRIN DISASTER. Cttlnje, February 19. , Details of recent fighting show that General Martinovitch's oolumn : during the storming of Bardanjolt" sent three hundred volunteers,, armed with steel shears, to bteak dowh the Turkish wire fences, Only ten of the number returned; There were five thbusand Montenegrin casualties in three days. Cetinje and Podgoritza are like immense, hospitals, there being wounded everywhere. 1 There is a terrible lack of surgeons.. In the partial capture of Great Bardanjolt and the Turkish counter-attack on the Montenegrin trenches, and during the on the plain the' Montenegrins lost four' thousand men out of thirty thousand/: