In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 39, 21 January 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

MONTENEGRO’S FATE. • 1 THE ROYAL FAMILY, (United Peers Abbooution.l Paris, January 20. Lc Debats officially announces that the King of Montenegro and his family, and diplomatists, have left San Giovanni for Italy. MONTENEGRIN OFFICAL STATEMENT. “WILL FIGHT TO THE BITTER END." (Received 9.55 a.m.) Rome, January 20. The Montenegro Ministry announces that King Nicholas and his troops will fight to the bitter end. CERMO-BULCAR MARCH-PAST. KAISER AND KING FERDINAND. Amsterdam, January 19. A telegram from Nisb states that the Kaiser mot King Ferdinand yesterday, and conveyed most cordial greetings. He watched from the citadel a march-past of the Bulgarian, Macedonian and German troops. The Kaiser presented King Ferdinand with a field-marshal’s baton, and King Ferdinand appointed the Kaiser colonel-in-chief of an infantry regiment. The Kaiser’s retinue included Generals Falkenhayn and Mackensen, an admiral, and several other generals. King Ferdinand’s retinue comprised two Princes and the Premier.

ENEMY FORCES HURRIEDLY LEAVE MONASTIR.

PRECAUTIONS ACAINCT ALLIES’

OFFENSIVE.

(Received 8.20 a.m.)

London, January 20

The Daily .Mail’s Salonika r correspondent states that the Anstro-Gor-inans are withdrawing several cavalry uul infantry units from Monastir hurriedly northwards.

The Bulgarians destroyed several nidges as a precaution against the Allies’ offensive.

jORFU AS A SUBMARINE BASE

GERMANY’S PRE-WAR OPERATIONS.

(Received 8.20 a.m.) Home, January 20

The Gazette Delanoplos, Corfu, says that daily proofs are forthcoming of the necessity for the occupation of Corfu, where Germany had premeditated the establishment of a submarine base, having stored petrol there a year* before the war.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Athens, January 20

M. Skouloudis expresses surprise at the doubts of the Entente Powers respecting the policy of Greece. She will continue her neutrality and keep her army intact for the final liquidation.

A deputation waited on King Constantine. complaining of distress and the exorbitant prices of food. The Allies have agreed to export five thousand tons of coal to Greece.

Athens, January 19

Greek soldiers beat M. Koutoupis, editor of the militant paper Nea Hellas, which caused uneasiness concerning the feeling of the army. London, January 19.

Mr Shepherd, writing from Salonika, says that men in the great war are now using glubs. The Austrians and Germans have been supplied with bludgeons, and at certain parts of the British front soldiers are furnished with spiked clubs for noiseless use in’ the trenches in night surprises. The Germans used a new shell-in the Dardanelles propelled by an air-gun. It weighed 511 b and was loaded with scrap-iron.

Mr M. Donohoe, from Corfu, reports that the members of the Serbian Government have arrived. M. Basitch says ho is convinced that from the ashes will arise a new, greater, and more powerful Serbia. The Kaiser’s villa will probably be the seat of the Serbian Government.