THE BALKANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 47, 1 July 1913, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

ARBITRATSQM ACCEPTED. UNCONDITIONALLY BY SERVIA. [By Electric Telegraph— Cgpyrichj [United Piiess Association. 1 Sofia, J imo 30. Bulgaria has been indirectly informed of the Servians' unconditional acceptance of Russian arbitration. M. Daneff will meet the other Balkan Premiers at St.. Petersburg.

AN INSPIRED STATEMENT. Vicuna, June 30. An inspired Berlin statement published in Der Zeit censures Austria's partiality for Bulgaria, and condemns Austria for not securing Servia's confidence. It declares that political, dynastic and economic reasons compel Germany to support Greece and Servia.

FURTHER FIGHTING. Sofia, June 30. The Servians, between Zletovo and Tshtib, maiqtaned a heavy fire on the Bulgarian outposts. The Bulgarians replied, but the result of the engagement is unknown. The (Jreeks northward of Leftera attacked a Bulgarian detachment sent to relieve the outposts. A fierce struggle follower.

FIGHTING AT SEVERAL POINTS. EXCITEMENT IN BELGRADE. (Received 10.0 a.m.) Sofia, June 30. Fighting; has been renewed at Leftera. The Bulgarians drove out the Greeks and later burnt Leftera before leaving. Belgrade, Juno 30. There is groat excitement owing to the Bulgarians attacking the Servians at Ishtib (100 miles from Salonika), Retka, Zletovo, and Valandova. Fighting is proceeding at all points. The Servians declare that hostilities began without a declaration of war. SAFEGUARDING SERVIA'S INTERESTS.

M. Pasics, Premier, stated in the Skupshtina that the Government standpoint was that with the acceptance of arbitration Servia's interests would be safeguarded.

SITTING OF THE SKUPSHTINA. The sitting of the Skupshtina abrubtly ended owing to the news of the Bulgarian attacks. The King presides over the Council to-day, to deal with the. situation.

"You cannot buy patriotism," says Mr Courlander, a writer on the Balkan War. "To Montenegro, '. fighting with all her manhood, came the volunteers from the mines of Nevada, from Arizona, from California- and San Francisco and New York—Montenegrins who were comparatively prosperous in the Xew World, throwing up jobs at a moment's notice paying their own passage from far-away America, tramping the mountainous miles from Cattaro and Antivari to Cettinje, all for a rifle and rounds of ammunition. Oddly enough, most of them were naturalised Americans, but at heart they were Montenegrins. The mountain land hold no life for them; they found no sustenance in the barren bosom of the motherland. Yet, back they came, gladly and eagerly." These volunteers had nothing to win but the consciousness of loyal service, and very many of them died in battle. But each of them went to the front "with the intimate soul of himself rejoicing that he was not a craven or a listless, idle one, content to let others do the fighting." No grudging service was rendered to Montenegro.