In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 90, 22 March 1916, Page 8

In the Balkans

CRITICAL BULGARIAN POSITION. United Pukhh Assoc. »Tnm. London, March 20. The Daily Vows’ Lome correspondent states that the internal situation in Bulgaria is critical and a military revolt supported by the evil population is feared. ROUMANIA AND THE - ALLIES. London, March 20. The Times’ correspondent at Bucharest says that Roumanian military preparations are being hurried forward. Tims'! men who were previously exempted from military service have been called to the colors. The lists of officers have been revised, and several generals, including the chief of the General Staff, have been pensioned off. The War Office has requisitioned all available copper and linen. The hopes of the Germanophiles in Roumania, who have continued a friendly neutrality, are destroyed since the return of M. Garpius from Vienna, as the reduced terms offered are unsatisfactory. There is no doubt that M. Filipescu’s recent visit to the Russian front had a close connection with the future attitude of Roumania.

PLIGHT OF THE SERBIANS. AUSTRIAN ANf) BULGARIAN MASSACRES. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE. (Received 9.55 a.m.) London, March 21. The Daily Telegraph’s Rome correspondent states that the Allies will shortly publish the evidence of documents proving that Austria ami Bulgaria were guilty of massacres in Serbia exceeding those of the Turks in Armenia. General Pasitch communicated to Italy and the Pope certain testimony, showing that there were seven hundred thousand victims. Whole districts were thus depopulated, the Austrians making prisoners of women, children, and old men in the churches, and stabbed them with the bayonet or suffocated them with asphyxiating gas. Three thousand were suffocated in one church. The Serbian refugees report having seen thp. Germans, and Austrians distribute iamong i the Bulgarians machines for producing gas and instructing thorn in the use thereof. The Bulgarians suffocated many, and the Austrians employed similar means in Montenegro.