ALLEGED ATROCITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8360, 21 February 1913, Page 8

ALLEGED ATROCITIES

MOHAMMEDANS IN MACEDONIA FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS CANNOT INVESTIGATE. Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 20, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 20. In the House of Lords, Lord Morley, replying to Lord Lamington, said it was Impossible for foreign Governments to investigate the alleged atrocities against Mohammedans in Macedonia aim,Thrace. The Balkan Governments had affirmed that they were taking stringent precautions to protect the Inhabitants. STORMING OF BARDANJOLT MONTENEGRINS’ TERRIBLE LOSSES. OETTINJE, February 19. Details of recent fighting show that General Martinovitch’s column during the ■ storming of Bardanjolt sent three hundred volunteers, armed with steel (hears, to break down the Turkish wire fences. Only ten of the number returned. There wore live thousand Montenegrin casualties in'three days. Cettinje and Podoritza - ’ are like immense hospitals, there being wounded everywhere. There is a terrible lack of surgeons. In the partial capture of Great Bardanjolt and the Turkish counter-at-tack on tho Montenegrin trenches, and during the fighting on the plain the Montenegrins tost four thousand Men out of thirty thousand. HOSTILITIES CHECKED BY BOISTEROUS WEATHER AND SNOWSTORMS. ‘ /Received February 20, 11.5 pan.) CONSTANTIN OFLE, February 20. Boisterous weather, with frequent mowsturms, has checked hostilities. The Bulgarians are in difficulties regarding supplies owing to bad roads. BULGARIA AND ROUMANIA WILLING FOR ITALY AND RUSSIA TO ARBITRATE. February 20, 11.5 p.m.) ST- PETERSBURG, February 20. It is reported that Bulgaria and toumania are willing that Italy and Russia should arbitrate on their difJerenoea, under Great Britain’s ansjices.