In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 52, 7 February 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

BULGARS CO TO CUSTOM UK. REPLACED BY AUSTRO-CERMANS EM " ".1Y FORCES AT MONASTIR, 80,000. (Received 9.U) a.m.) Salonika. February 6. Important Bulgarian forces have been withdrawn from (lie front and sent towards Rnstcliuk, Austrians and Germans replacing thorn. There are indications that new units, exclusively Germans, are massed at Monastic, where the army totals SO, 000. ROUMAW'ANS OPTIMISTIC. CONFIDENCE RESTORED BY ALLIES’ POSITION, NINE-TENTHS OF FORGES MOB ILISED. BULGARIAN AND HUNGARIAN FRONTIERS GUARDED. AUSTRO-CERMAN PRESS PORTENTS. (Received 8.35 a.m.) London, February 6.

Messages received by the Rome press assert that the feeling in Roumania is optimistic, the position in Galicia and Salonika having restored confidence. Roumania has now ninetenths of her forces mobilised, these being disposed on the Bulgarian and Hungarian frontiers, none being in the (Russian Empire. The Austro-German press fear that Roumania is.only awaiting a favorable •moment to strike on the side of the Entente. They admit that England’s purchase of 80,000 waggons of Roumanian grain was a great stroke ol practical diplomacy. , A Budapest!) message states that Austria and Germany are seeking to place an order for 100,000 waggons. ROUMANIAN MILITARY CREDIT. NEW BILL FOR EIGHT MILLIONS (Received 8.35 a.m.) London, February 6. Importance is attached in some quarters to Rouinania’s new Bill authorising a supplementary military credit of eight millions sterling.