A SORRY SPECTACLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 63, 19 July 1913, Page 5

A SORRY SPECTACLE.

ON DANUBE’S BLUE BANKS.

BULL ARIA SUES FOR PEACE

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

London, July 18

The Roumanian army is muster of the entire right bank of the Danube. Sofia is almost isolated. The Roumanians cut the Sofia-Varna railway lino, seriously affecting goods supplies. Sofia is only in telegraphic touch through Bucharest. The Bulgarians, when the Roumanians reached Rustchuk, sank three of their own small gunboats and two torpedo boats.

Bucharest, July 17. King Charles of Roumania has joint'd the army headquarters.

London, July 17

Reuter’s Sofia correspondent says that the Roumanians are near Rustchuk and Varna and the occupation of Vratza is imminent. The population

is fleeing before the invaders. Many fear that the Roumanians will occupy Sofia.

The Bulgarian Government, at Russia’s instance, has agreed that the Servian frontier shall pass eastward of the Varder, leaving Ishtib to Sorvia. The Greek boundary will include Seres.

Athens, July 17

A semi-official report of the victims at Demirhissar massacres states that eighty were bayoneted to death and twenty-four saved their lives by feigning death. r J he Austrian and Italian Consuls at Salonika proceeded to Seres to verify the reports of the massacres received at headquarters by King Constantino. They subsequently declared that they found the catastrophe even greater than they believed. The Greeks have occupied Nevrokop.

Belgrade, July 17,

M. Pasics and M. Venezelos met at Uskub and agreed on all points regarding the conditions of the armistice.

King Ferdinand has sent a telegram appealing to the King of Roumania for peace, expressing a desire to restore amity and calling upon Roumania to terminate the bloodshed caused by the war with Servia and Greece.

King Charles’ reply hinted that it was desirable that all the belligerents should arrange preliminaries to peace, and also made it clear that the march of tne Roumanian army would not be stayed until Roumania had secured the unconditional cession of the territory within the Turtukai-Bobritch-Baulchik line, and a deciding voice in the partition of the Balkans.

France has initiated an international step intended to induce Bulgaria to appoint plenipotentiaries to discuss with Greece and Servia terms of peace. Franco has advised Roumania not to occupy Sofia, and also urged 1 Turkey 1 to refrain from advancing beyond the Enos-Midia line.

It is understood that the, Powers will not allow' Turkey to retain Adrianople if re-taken.

The Roumanian army la practically dominating the belligerents. It is suggested in some quarters thaUtho Powers might entrust Roumania with the duty of exorcising armed arbitration between the belligerents. The possibility of settling the Balkan problem by an international conference in Berlin in August is mooted by members of the Triple Alliance.