PEACE TO-MORROW.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1820, 5 August 1913, Page 5

PEACE TO-MORROW.

IN THE BALKANS.

DR. DILLON'S FORECAST,

POWERS MAY INTERVENE.

MATTERS IN DISPUTE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August i, 10.50 p.m.) London, August 4. Dr. E. J. Dillon, the "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Bucharest; anticipates that peace will be signed at tho latest on Wednesday. Tho Graeco-Bulgar-ian dispute, he says, hinges upon the port of Kavala, which neither will yield. Austria, Bussia, and Great Britain will therefore solvo the deadlock to-day by intimating that the Powers reserve the right of pronouncing final judgment". Meanwhile Greece will be left in possession of tho town.

The Serbo-Bulgarian settlement, continues Dr. Dillon, turns upon tile possession of Istib, Kochana, Eadosto, and S'trumitza. Austria insists that these belong to Bulgaria, but Sikrvia demurs.

Bulgaria haa accepted Rumania's proposed Dobrudja frontier, and the razing of the fortifications at Eustchuk and Shumla.

BULGARIA'S CLAIMS. Bucharest, August 3. The Bulgarian counter-proposals claim Kratevo, Kochana, Radovista, Strumnitza, Doiran, Seres, Drama, Demirhiissar, and Kavala, and refuse compensation for : private losses. . Both Greece and Servia have offered modifications regarding the frontier, but not to the extent that Bulgaria demands. Vienna, August 3. The opinion held in diplomatic circles is that the Serbo-Grecian demands are excessive, and that' there is littlo hope of an agreement unless they are modified. ADRIANOPLE FOE TURKEY. Constantinople, August 3. A mass meeting of thirty thousand persons at Adriamjple resolved that every sacrifice would bo mado so that the city should not be yielded up to Bulgaria.

ANOTHER BULGAR REVERSE, FORCE PRACTICALLY ANNIHILATED. Athens, August 3. The Bulgarians sent fivo thousand infantry, five hundred cavalry, and three batteries of artillery to cut off a thousand Greeks at Mohomia. A Greek soldier compulsorily serving, with the Bulgarians managed to advise tho Greeks, who dispatched reinforcements to Mohomia and caught the Bulgarians between two fins ajid practically annihilated them.

GREEK ARMY IN DANGER. (Rec. August 1, 10.50 p.m.) Sofia, August 4. The foreign military oritios here be-

lipve .that the suspension of hostilities has rescued a large portion'of the Greek army from a critical prodioamont, if not disas-

BOMBARDMENT OF WIDJN. Sofia, August 3. During the recent bombardment of tho Bulgarian town of Widin, on the Danube, two hundred civilians were killed, and six hundred were wounded. Half the city was destroyed.

• The following intimation was received from the Telegraph Office at Wellington) last evening:— From * Borne: "The Tjirkish Administration, advises thftt it lias established an international daily service at Adrianople, Kirk ICilisse, Babaeski, and Rodosto. These offices are directly connectod with Constantinople. . "The Albanian Minister for Post and Telegraphs announces the opening of, a telegraph office at Soutari."