In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 47, 31 January 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

CREEK PORT OCCUPIED. COMMANDER PROTESTS. [United Press jssooiation.l Salonika, January 29. The Allies' marines have occupied a Greek port on the Karabura peninsula. The Greek commander evacuated it after protest. TROUBLE IN ENEMY CAMP. NEW GERMAN CAMPAICN. Salonika, January 28. There is serious trouble between the Germans and Bulgarians. General Mackensen interviewed King Ferdinand at Sofia, requesting urgent intervention, and also urging him to push the Albanian campaign. They are bringing up new troops, and it is expected that the German campaign will be against Albania and Mesopotamia, not Salonika and Egypt. AIR RAID ON ENEMY CAMP. TROOPS IN A PANIC. Salonika, January 29. French aeroplanes made a raid on the German-Bulgarian camp at Pazarli, north-west oi' Lake Doiran. The troops were thrown into a panic, and the damage done was considerable. The Echo de Paris says that Churn Bey, President of tbe Committee of Union and Progress, interviewed, said that Roumania had neglected two opportunities to enter the war advantageously and was unlikely to enter now until the enemy was defenceless. Greece was paralysed with fear of the Central Powers. Turkey is truculently claiming all the Germanic successes and intends to clear out the Germans soon. If we are conquerors we expect a new and regenerate Turkey. GERMANY AND ROUMANIA. AN ENEMY CORRESPONDENT'S VIEW. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Amsterdam, January 30. The Tageblatt's Sofia correspondent says that four-fifths of the Roumanians fit for service are under arms. The majority of the troops in Roumania are on the Bulgarian frontier. Troops, on the Bessarabian frontier have not received exceptional reinforcements. The bulk of the Roumanian heavy artillery is along the frontiers of Bulgaria and Hungary. The Entente does not conceal the expectation that when the much-adver-tised general offensive begins, Ronmania and Greece will be forced to join the Entente. We ought, therefore, to request Roumania's explanation of her attitude. ALLECED AUSTRIAN HAUL. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Amsterdam, January 30. An Austrian communique says: The Lovtchen booty includes 31 ! gnns, fifty thousand rifles, and fifty machine guns.

ITALY'S LATEST MOVE.

(Received 8.40 a.m.) j Paris, January 30. | Le Matin zays the Italians in Al- j ban:a nave definitely juncticned at E3sad and arc fortifying Valoua and elsewhere in order to bar the enemy's advance. j " ALLIES' HINT TO GRE2GE. I DEMOBILISATION SUGGESTION. , DEVELOPMENTS PENDINC. ... . i (Received 9.45 a.m.) ( Loudon January .'3O. The Observer's Athens correspond- . ent says the Allies have hinted to . Greece that it would be to her in- ( terests to demobilise in view of approaching developments. 1 THE KAISER. j DISCOVERY OF PLOT ON HIS s LIFE. i CONSTANTINOPLE JOURNEY s ABANDONED. y (Received 9.45 a.m.) ■<- Rome, .January 30. f The reason for the Kaiser abandon- \ ing the journey from Xish to Con- ] stantinople was due to the discovery ; of a plot on his life. I i ALBANIA STANDS FIRM. i WITH THE ALLIES TILL DEATH. ESSAD PASHAS DECISION. ; (Received 8.30 a.m.) Paris January 30. Essad Pasha, in interview with a representative of the Petit Parisian, j said Albania was facing many dan- i gers, but however terrible the situation, his decision was irrevocably with the Allies till death. j ] i BULGARIA AND GERMANY. _ 1 t MINISTERS FEARS FOR CREECE • t ( FAITH IN THE QUADRUPLE AL- £ LIANCE. < i f (Received 10.10 a.m.) | Amsterdam, January 30. ( Here Lizoff, Bulgarian Minister at t Berlin., in an interview with the Koel- £ nische Zeitung, says the Kaiser won Bulgaria's heart, having presented Bulgaria with the entire German booty in Serbia, including three hundred guns and material valued at thirty- . five million marks. He feared the Entente would compel Greece to submit to their behests, l but if it came to the worst the Quadruple Alliance would be powerful en- j ough to subjugate Greece.