BALKAN WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 5

BALKAN WAR.

GERMANY'S ATTITUDE,

STANDS STEADFASTLY BY AUSTRIA.

KING NICHOLAS'S BUFF.

3y Telegraph— Press Association-Copyright (Roc. April 5, (1.15 a.m.) i Berlin, April 4. i Jlcrr von Jagow, Minister for Foreign Affairs,' in a statement in iho Reichstag, : expliiinod' thnt iho Balkan League originally ountemplated Turkey's inclusion in IhoiLeaguo, liiit Uiol'ortowas averso In joining in. Germany had stood steadfastly by Austria's sido throughout tlin Albanian ncgotiitlioap, ami was also slriving to promoto iho fulfilment of Ru- ! mania's desires. Thero wero considerable difficulties ahead in connection with tlio J Aegean Islands. Germany' was seeking a sottlenient that would not endanger Turkey's Asintio possessions. ICING NICHOLAS JIAS HIS HAND , FORCED'. London, April a. The "Daily- Telegraph's"- Vienna cor" respondent stales that when King Nicholas inaugurated Iho rebellion against' Europe lie hoped to win by bluff. His ' Ministers forbado him to turn back, and curtly said (hut if ho did not persist tliey would cseort him across tlio frontier; ! FRANCE JOINS IN BLOCKADE. i (Ree. 'April ft, 0.15 p.m.) ' ! Paris, April 4. At Russia's instance Franco will • join • Great Britain in the naval demonstration i against Montenegro oft" Antivari. THE STOR-MING OF ADRIANOniJ. London, April 3. Router's correspondent, who was in ■ Adrianoplo throughout tho siege, stales i that tho Bulgarians, with thirty bat- ~ teries of field artillery, 'fired unceasingly ! for' three days. Tlio Turks, exhausted. i became panic-stricken, and officers, leav- :• ing tho general staff, fired tho barrack"! ; and spiked the guns, and then blow up tho Marash Bridge. The foreign Con- ' ; suls throughout protected .their subjects. 1 ! The British Consul, Major 11. Samson, constantly rail tho gauntlet: of tho ehella in order to savo Englishmen and their ; wives and children. lie also established 1 a hospital. THE HORRORS OF SCUTARI. , j Tho "Corriore della Sera" recently pul>lished eorno letters from its correspondent, who is, going through tho siego at Scutari. Writing on January 1", he soys: ; —"Tho Fad sccnes in front; of tho bakeries ' aro. renewed every day, and assumo even larger dimensions, especially in tho evenings. '.('he poor crowds assemble, which, having bcggeil in tho daytime,.try.to purchase soma bread Ijcforo tho closing lit tho shep. Tho struggle for bread becomes oltcn rory acute. A fow days ago u woman, swooned in tlio crowd. Last: night ono of tho bakers eanceivcd tho unfsrtunato idea of announcing that tlio stock'of bread was nearly at 1 an end. Tho crush becarno so great that a young girl had lier bacltlyio broken by sumobody's elbow, and had to bo carrlcd out. ... A,friend, of mino gives ovcry day n. pioco of bread to a ma-n-who invariably repeats, 'Tho children and-myself 'nro rtyiiK ,-frora Uxngci:?'!Ycsterditj* l-'taj'ifriend ' jestingly remarked, 'It is now a month . Binco yon have been repeating 'his every day.' —'I'lui poor man smiled bitterly. 'It is true,' ho said, 'but our lives lira really hanging" by.' a thread. You see, wo only eat ti piece of bread dipped in a spoonful of oil and salt once a day, nr , ' onco every other day. Tq mo and lin wife it is all the 6amo how wi>'finish. but ;■ it 'ia tho little ones who aro. causing us to , much pain.'" I ""Four days"later tho samo'Corrcsnondent reported thnt sugar had gone, coffee'was ' at an'end,-butter, -bacon, oil, dripping— all. were gono; thero,were no vegetables, with' tlio exception of cabbage and som» mysterious grasy, grandiloquently called salad, and soven bakeries had shut down for lack of flour. A Moslem has died from hunger, and ti wliolo company of soldiers had deserted and escaped to tlio enemy. The military authorities hart eonio stores of flour, which, however, they ; wero reluctant 1 to givo out: freely. .