Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 92, 21 April 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

NEWS FROM BUCHAREST.

STRONG FORTIFICATIONS AT VIENNA AND BUDAPEST.

REPORTED HEAVY FIGHTING ON RUSSIAN FRONTIER.

Times anti Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, April 20.

A correspondent at Bucharest, who may he considered reliable, on his arrival in Austria, states Vienna and Budapest have been strongly fortified. On the left bank of the Danube, Vienna is protected by long lines of trenches and barricades of barbed wire. The sum of £2,800,000 has been spent on fortifications:. The price of food has risen enormously. Large numbers of troops are being sent to the Carpathians. It is reported in Bucharest that heavy fighting has begun near the fronters of Bukovina and Bessarabia. MISCELLANEOUS'. Pctrograd, April 20. Official: The enemy suffered great losses hi a further attack on the heights at Telepoich. A battalion surrendered en bloc. Fresh attacks in the direction of Stryj were repulsed. The Xovoe Vremya reports that General Hindenburg has fallen into disfavor with the General Staff, but has retained the command on the Kaiser’s urging that he be given another chance.

RUSSIA’S PROGRAMME.

MAKING A NEW MAP. A DEMOCRAT’S FORECAST. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Romo, April 20. The “Messagero” has published an interview with Professor Miiukoft, Leader of the Constitutional Democrats in the Russian Duma, in which he said Russia was ready to fight for a year or two, and delays had not disturbed her patience. Russia’s programme, provided for liberty in the Black Sea and possession of the Straits leading to it, implying that Russia proposed to occupy Constantinople, and that a written agreement to that effect had already been concluded between the Allies. An international commission would solve the question of the Ottoman public debt.

Six vilayets, be went on to say, in Armenia would become autonomous under the suzerainty of Russia, and another great Islamistic Empire was probable under British rule from Egypt to India. The latter country would be the seat of the Caliphate. Servia would get Bosnia, Herzegovina and the Dalmatian coast, and the old Roumanian territory would be added to Roumania. Galicia would become part of Poland, which would be autonomous. The Duma would quickly consider questions of religious liberty, free speech and the self-government of Poland. Russia would grant equal rights to Jews. Bulgaria had been offered part of Macedonia, but the Bulgarians had asked for other districts, If Italy joined the Allies, she would have Trente, Trieste, and Pola, and share Asia Minor.