In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 83, 14 March 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

ROUMANIAN POSITiOK. ATTACKED ON THE DANUBE. BULCARS AND AUSTRIANS OPEN FIRE. UNITED TftESS ASBOOIATIOi London, March 13. The Daily .Mail's Odessa corrcspondent reports that the Bulgarians attacked a Roumanian vessel northeastward of Rustchuk, and that an Austrian gunboat fired machine-guns at Roumanian troops, who replied. There were numerous casualties on both sides. RUSSIA AND ROUMANIA. A CLOSER RELATIONSHIP. Bucharest, March 13. The Exchange Telegraph says that Russia has signed an.agreement allowing the passage of war materials' to' Roumania, and .eventually supplying her with these, and has also agreed to give Roumania part of Bessarabia. . _ ATTACK ON SALONIKA IMPROBABLE. BULGARIANS DISMAYED. London, March 12. The Daily Chronicle's Salonika correspondent states that the Allied positions continue to be extended and strengthened. Almost everybody is convinced that the enemy will not attack Salonika. I

News from Bulgaria indicates that dismay of the future is becoming a direct opposition to the war. BulgarGcrman relations are not improving, as the- Bulgarians regard their own partiin the war as having been wholly victorious, and they are tired of waiting for a German victory which will enable the Bulgarians to regard their victory: as final. Disputes between the staffs' withdrawn' &sss f%ohs !M ? trhe 'invasion ;of longer; regarded; as possible, that thei Russian advance' ■has" changed.-^the whole face pfrthe military '. problem- Iji < the Near'East! •;-'':'' Mf&Wt THE SERBIAN ARMY REORCANk.t IS ED. ■ ! 'T< ■'•'•* " , "*'" r ["i*.iNS (Received.; 9.3o a.m.) , ,;.<-,, . V \ Athene, March 13.'" ' The pondent stsfes that the Serbian Army numbering §s>o,oflfl,-: has- been completely reorganised at 5 Corfu and is ! ready ' to fight the Allies send itl';