In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 64, 21 February 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

ROUMANIAN DESTINY, HUN PROVOCATIONS CAUSE REACTION. COMMUNICATION WITH BULCARS INTERRUPTED. Umieu Prf.sr Assou. .iTIon. J London, February I*. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that serious news has come from Bucharest. Aus-tro-Germau provocations have caused a reaction, and even in official circles it is reported that the King declares that Roumania must follow her destiny, which opposes the Austrians. A general mobilisation is expected, and communication with Bulgaria is interrupted. SERBIANS REFITTED FOR WAR. 130,000 AT CORFU. (Received 8.30 a.m.) Salonika, February 20. One hundred an dthirty thousand Serbians, who have been drilled and equipped at Corfu, are ready for the mainland. THE ALBANIAN THEATRE. ENEMY APPROACHES DURAZZO. OCCUPATION OF KAVAJA. (Received 8.30 a.m.) Amsterdam, February 20. An Austrian communique states that Austro-Albanians occupied Kavaja, southward of Durazzo. THE POSITION AT SALONIKA. GERMANY’S DREAMS OF EGYPT VANISHING. London, February 19. Describing the position at Salonika, the Daily Chronicle says that Germany’s long line of communications from Belgrade to the Bosphorus is threatened by the Russian advance on the Eastern front, and the Ahglo-French-Serbian army. Outside Salonika the Allies are within striking distance of the Italo-Serbian armies, and with Essad Pasha’s forces as a menace to the German right, while the Russians are smashing their way forward beyond the Bosphorus, they will thus upset Germany’s dreams of an attack on Egypt. WHY THE DELAY ? HITCH AMONG CENTRAL . . POWERS. SALONIKA UNATTACKED. (Received 8.30 a.m.) Athens, February 20. A well-informed correspondent ol the Messagero at Athens states that the delay in the advance on Salonika is due to Germany’s failure to reconcile the claims of Austria and Bulgaria ' Each wants the other to attack, and Bulgaria will not unless she is given Salonika to keep. Germany has not yet persuaded Austria to consent.