In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 28, 8 January 1916, Page 8

In the Balkans

NEKVOUSKIiS* IN ATHENS. A N AOVA NC E 0 N GREc CE. I'xixed Press Association. Borne. January 0. A telegraph message .states there is great nervousness at Alhous consequent. on tile announcement ot the immediate occupalion of Corfu, Cophalonhl, .Kpinis and Chios by the Entente. il Corners della Sera, states that tiie advance of the Anstro-vlenuans and .Unitarians against the Crocks I:,;-, begun. I’ll., Central 'Powers have informed (Peeve that alter the arrests at .Salonika- li;ey are forced to consider the districts occupied by the Entente as cnemv territory.

FEELING THE RUSSIAN PRESSURE. Loudon. .January 7. The military correspondent of the Times says the .situation on the South Russian front is of the utmost- military and * political importance. The fall of Czernowitz, the capital of the Thikowina province, has impressed the whole of the Balkans, particularly Bonmania. It hasdeprived the enemy of an important and practical ra- !- ~ d, . ; line to Ko.bmm. '< it.- .i,i ; an - pad!) : m ing up Co a..;- ;a-' dming in a .on a two’ hundred miles front. Cone 1 ml '-ken so a unable to thinh of Salonika while lighting desperately to resist Russia. Bucliaresi nates that Russia .is colossaiiy jam ring in troops and the Czar is personally commanding. The Austro-Gcrmans are flinging in reinforcements by withdrawing troops from the Balkans and Italy. MISSELLA U EOfJS ITE MS. London, .January 5. Tiir Ward Price stales Unit the Serbian remnants, which are greater than ■estimated, amount to probably 150,000 of first line troops. The Bnlgars are, disinclined to take the risk of luring made the (Herman catspaw. They claim that Serbia, lists; been conquered, that the railway from .Belgrade to Constantinople has been restored, and that their part oi the Jiargain bars been concluded. They consider tiiar to attack the Allies in Macedonia must be the subject ot a fresh arrangement, including territorial reward, uliicii Greece, .Macedonia, and (Annany arc unable to promise,

u'i'cc Iho existing perplexity. The iv.ho do Paris is reiiaMy niormed that grave dissensions exist n the (ionium higher command, esw.cially with Kindenburg and Falkenijsyn resulting in a series of.eonnterji'ders. divisions being transierred, re•iillocl ami retransferred. The journd comments on the general staft hesi:aiing. and does not know when an '•mi will be put to this painful ami lillieuit situation.