In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 75, 27 November 1915, Page 5

In the Balkans

RUSSIA AND ROUMANIA.* IMPORTANT CONFERENCE AT SIUSTRIA. THE DANUBE CONTINGENCIES. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Loudon, November 26. Bucharest newspapers state that an important Russo-Roumanian conference is being held bt Silistria to discuss coutiugencies arising from the position on the Danube. Prince Lrosofi is representing Russia. ..

BERLIN ALARMED. THREATS OF VENGEANCE ON ROUMANIA. (Received 8.25 a.m.) London, November 26. German telegrams via Holland show that the reports of the assembling of Russian armies on the Danube continue to agitate the authorities in Berlin. Hints are thrown out of terrible things in store for Roumania if she allows the Russians a passage. Them, the Austrians will enter by the Roumanian frontier. _ ** . A FRENCH SUCCESS. BRUSNIK OCCUPIED. (Received 8.50 a.nij) Paris, November 26. The French on the 23rd attacked the Bulgarians west of Krevolak and ( occupied Brusnik. » The Journal’s Salonika correspondent announced that the first important Reinforcements reached Salonika yesterday.

SPIES IN SALONIKA. CITY SWARMING WITH THEM. United Pkess ahsooiatfun. (Received 8,50 a.m.) London, November 2G. Reuter’s Salonika correspondent states 4 that tlje, city swarms (with f Ge«inan,,, Austrian, Bulgarian, Turkish and Jewish spies, who pursue their wpr,k , opeply, ( ’Waiters jin tins restaurants, s yisibly stretch j their cars to over hear ,ti?e Not a transport arrives, and not A landed, but thy, event, is repolited immediately to Sofia, Berlin, and Constantinople.

tl-IE GERMAN PROPAGANDA IN ROUMANIA, , I . ARRIVAL OF KAISER’S NEPHEW (Received 8.25 a.m.) London, November 2d., The Kamer’s nephew, Prince Schaumburglippe, has arrived in Bucharest tp ,assist the. German propaganda,. ... . . BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. COMPLAINT BY GENERAL VON MACKENSEN. * (Received 8.25 a.m.) London, November 26. The Serbian authorities have persuaded a section of the civilians to remain in Serbia. General von Mackensen peremptorily informed General Jekoff that the Bulgarians were perpetrating horrible cruelties on the Serbians, and that this renders the conquered districts a danger in the year of the army.

A FRENCHMAN’S OPINION. SUGGESTED PLAN OF OPER- ’ ATIONS. THE CZAR INSPECTS BIG ARMY ON THE SANUBE. (Received 8.5 a.m.) London, November 26. M. Hanotaux, in an article in tlie Figure, points out that Salonika is the only place where operations are being carried out against Sofia. He says that the Allies will require 300,000 to 400,000 fully equipped troops for trench and open warfare. Such an army operating on the enemy’s flanks will protect the Balkans, the Black Sea, and Egypt alike. If another fortnight is lost it will be too late for Russia’s advance. The Czar inspected General Yesolsky’s quarter of a million troops on the Danube.

SUFFERING SERBIANS. FROM NISH TO MONASTIR. WORSE THAN THE KLONDYKE TRAIL. ‘•ONE CONTINUOUS HORROR.”' • A TRAIL OF DEATH." “THE BLACKEST PACE IN HISTORY.” (Received 10.‘20 a.m.) New York, November 20. Mr Shepherd, correspondent of "the United Press, sends graphic pictures from Monastir of the miseries of the Serbian refugees.

He describes the road from Nish to Monastir as worse than the Klondyke trail in evidences of privation, exhaustion, and death. A Government party, who had a terrible journey of twenty days on horseback, included the American wife of a Serbian official, who said there were three millions of starving people in Serbia. Horses were starving by the thousands, and dogs which had been left behind foodless were scouring the hills in famished packs in pursuit of game. The roadside from Nish to Monastir was [ one continuous horror, dead horses be- • ing interspersed with ithp corpses of starved and exhausted fugitive women and children,. Our horsey wore starving, and some fell from < exhaustion and died where they fell. ' “Our party,” he said, “was the best equipped of all on that trail ol death, yet all we had to’east was half a loaf of bread each daily. Most of the refugees were foodless for days. Many who struggled oh to the villages, hopefully expecting bread, found nothing and lay down and .djed,. unable to prolong the cruel struggle. One night 1 heard the screams of a man who was being murdered by hunger-maddened men for his half loaf of bread. What is happening in, Serbia is the blackest page in history. When M. Michotte, the Belgium Minister, offered the Serbians money they burst into tears, appealing for bread.” Mr Shepherd appeals to the Americans to aid the refugees, and adds: “Batches hourly arrive at Monastir delirious with joy, hut even there food is terribly scarce, and fuel is exhausted.” ’

liUi. :'la. 7. . kitchener in rom^e. j I THE IDOL, OF^]THEj } ;j^MPIRE. DISTRUST OF CONSTANTINE AND II !• tl i r , ■,,, (Received 12.50 p.m.) ‘ ' London, November 26. Renter’s Rome correspondent states that Lord Kitchener arrived and was the object ■of general deference from all classes, the entire press welcoming 1 The Italian press' comment favorably on Greece?s reply, but Parliamentarians'are distrustful, and still fear secret agreements between Kings Constantine an (I 'Ferdinand • i-ffT iPV FRENCH AMBASSADOR . . . TIONED. v \\ if ,r ■' . IT 1 ■ 1 y'-y'y. ■ i , .n THE HONORS OF ATHENS. ‘’(Received 12.50 p.m.) Athens, November 26. M. Cochin received an immense public ovation, and the honorary citizenship of Athens was conferred upon him.