BALKAN TREATY SIGNED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1825, 11 August 1913, Page 7

BALKAN TREATY SIGNED.

SOME RESERVED POINTS. AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA ACT TOGETHER. MORE BLOODSHED PREDICTED. By Telegraph— Presa Association—Copyright (Rec. August 12, 0.25 a.m.) London, August 10. Tho conference - betweon tho representatives of tho Balkan States at Bukarest concluded with tho signing of a Peace Treaty at nine o'clock this morning. Under tho terms of tho treaty GreeCo and Sea'via. resorvo the right to submit tho question of tho indemnity to The Hagiio Convention. In the event of a dispute in tho fixing of tho Bulgar-Ru-manian frontier, Belgium, Holland,, or Switzerland will ba asked to arbitrate. King Carol of Rumania has telegraphed to tho Kaiser: "Peace is assuired, thanks to you." Tho ■ Kaiser replied heartily congratulating King Carol on his "truly statesmanlike policy." Ho added: "It is a great satisfaction to mo that I have been able to contribute to what has been achieved." Austro-Russian .Declaration. The Conference received tho AustroRussian declaration, reserving the right to revise the treaty, but the Allies view with disfavour tho possibility of the Powers seriously revising the treaty. Even in Rumania the idea is repugnant. The delegation has proposed freedom in the religious education of all Christian populations in the annexed territories. The Rumanian Army has begun to demobilise. At tho close of the Peace Conference, M. Toutcheff thanked the Austro-Hun-garian Minister, to whose support Bulgaria chiefly owed Servia's yielding of the SlirumnitEa Valley. Comments of the Press. The Paris newspapers do not treat the Kavala question seriously. They state that tho Austro-Russian agreement to reserve the right of revising the allotment of the port of Kavala to Greece is more apparent than real. Tho "Temps," however, is astonished at Russia's attitude, and warns Russia of tho consequences of following Austria's lead. Tho St. Petersburg newspapers' most striking comments relate to Kavala. Tho "Novoe Vremya" declares that Franco is pursuing chimeras, and has sacrificed the Russian alliance, the basis of which must now lis revised. The "Rictch" says: "Franco has deserted us over a phantom in consideration of her Mediterranean policy." "Die Zcit," of Vienna, states that tho Austro-Hungarian army and navy estimates must be increased by .£10,710,000 until 1918. The mobilisation on account of tho Balkan troubles cost ,£25,200,000. MORE BLOODSHED PREDICTED, ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) London, August 8. "The Times" correspondent at Sofia considers that tho Peace Treaty Ignores tho racial distribution of the population of and consequently will not be permanent, but mil lead to. a further struggle and more bloodshed. .... .CHOLERA-STRICKEN ARMY, . Bukarest, August 11. Cholera has broken ' out in the Rumanian army. Eight hundred cases have been reported, and fifteen per cent. ■ aro malignant, tho victims dying in five hours.