Second Edition In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 73, 2 March 1916, Page 6

Second Edition In the Balkans

BRITISH CASUALTIES IN SERBIA London February 2!>. The casualties in the Serbian and Salonica expeditions were :>" officer* and 1139 of other ranks. AU3TRO-GERMAN RULE. A REICN OF TERROR. London, February 2d. In view of the prospects of developments in the Balkans, Mr Calvert sends despatches confirming the accounts of the Turco-Bulgai" depression. It is specially v interesting to note that the Germans flooded Turkey and Bulgaria with paper money, but the Turks and Bulgarians have discredited it. Traders refusing to accept it at its face value are lined and imprisoned. The result is that in Varna most of the shops are closed and the Bulgarians' economic conditions are depressed. Meat and bread, which were abundant and cheap before the Germans' entry, have quadrupled in price. The nation is quickly becoming demoralised and is realising Germany's weakness as a protector regarding. Graeculloumanian exploitation of Bulgaria's extremity. Ther| is a dismal certainty that the greatest part of the Bulgarian army is tied to the Greek frontier, while 45,000 Germans garrison the cities and make an impressive show on the Roumanian frontier. The discussion of politics in Bulgaria is prohibited under severe penalties. The Austrian administrator of Serbiaextends from the Moray? valley to Croushevw/.. They have taken hostages from each city, thus-guaranteeing the passivity of the population, and removed Serbian males, except artisans from Belgrade, where no Serbs are'allowed in the streets alter sunset or on the trams without a permit. . -Austrian officers have brought their families to Belgrade. Hungarian speculators have, forced the Serbs to pay extortionate prices, and a Hungarian Jew has been appointed to assist the Mayor. Turkey is wailing under even worse extortions. A committee of Young Turks is monopolising supplies and requisitioning from the districts at small prices and reselling at fabulous profits, even doubling; ttlie prices of sugar and dry produce from Austria. The Young Turks are alarmed bv" the multiplying signs of popular resentment at the exactions. \usuf's murderer has been arrested. Ihe Moderates, including Riza Pasha the President of the Chamber, Hahl Bey, and Zia, a high functionary of the Grand Vibrate, . and thirty officers have all been deported to Asm Minor, whence they are unlikely to return. AUCKLANd WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES IN SERBIA. London, February 29. Dr Jessie Scott, of Auckland, and lately of the staff of the Scottish W - men'"s Hospital in Serbia, has arrive* in London in good health. She says ,1m "was well treated by the Germans and Austria*., and saw nothing to suggest that the Germans and Ausare contemplating surrender. She was greatly impressed with tneil efficiency and equipment. THE ALBANIAN THRONE. BULGARIA'S OBJECTION TO PRINCE WIED. Sofia, March 1. Bulgaria has informed Austria that the reinstatement of Prince Wied on the Albanian throne is strongly objectionable.