WILL II LAST?

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 5

WILL II LAST?

PEACE m THE BALKANS. THE KAISER’S SATISFACTION. [i y Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Bucharest, August 10. The Peace Conference has concluded, and the treaty was signed* at nine this morning. Greece and Servia reserve the right to submit the question of the indemnity to the Hague Convention. In tno event of a dispute with regard to the fixing of the Bulgar-Roumanian frontier, Belgium, Holland, or Switzerlnd will he asked to arbitrate. The Roumanian Premier lias telegraphed to the Kaiser: “Peace is assured. Thanks to you, it remains final peace.” The Kaiser replied heartily, congratulating the Premier on his truly statesmanlike policy, “it is a great satisfaction to me,” ho adds, “that I have been able to contribute to what has been achieved.” London, August 9.

The Peace Conference received the Austro-Russian declaration reserving the right,to revise the .treaty, but the Allies did not favorably view the possibility of the Powers’ serious revision. Even in Roumania the idea is repugnant. The delegation proposed religious education and freedom to all tlu Christian populations in the annexed territories. The Roumanian army has begun to demobilise. London, August 9. Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. The Times’ correspondent at Sofia considers that the Peace Treaty ignores racial distribution in Macedonia and consequently peace will not Jr permanent, leading to a further struggle and bloodshed. St. Petersburg, August 10. The newspapers’ most striking comments relate to Kavala.

WORSE THAN WAR. Bucharest, August 9

Cholera has broken out in the Roumanian army. Eight hundred case* have occurred, and 15 per cent, oi them are of a malignant nature, the victims dying in five hours.

FRANCO-RUSSTAN RELATIONS. Paris, August 10. The papers do not treat tho Kavala question seriously. They consider the Russian-Austrian agreement as more apparent than real. Tile Temps, however, is astounded at Russia’s attitude; and warns Russia of the consequences of following Austria’s lead. St, Petersburg, August 9. The Novoe Vremya declares that France is pursuing chimeras and sacrificing the Russian alliance, the bash whereof must now lie revised. The Reitch says: “France has de serted us- over a phantom considera tion in connection with its Mediterranean policy.”

, AUSTRIA’S LITTLE BIEL. Vienna, August 9. The newspaper Zeit states that tin army and navy estimates will be increased by £10,710,000 until 1918. The mobilisation on account of the Balkan troubles cost £20,200,000. COMPENSATION CLAIMS. (Received 9.0 a.m. Bucharest, August 10. The Allies have abandoned their demand for compensation to private persons.