In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 17 April 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

ROUMANIA AND GERMANY. PURSUIT OF A GERMAN LIE. LL.Mi'Jiii I'iiKae abhuuia'hon.J London, April 10. Bucharest describes the alleged commercial treaty with Germany as a German falsehood, intended to influence German opinion. DISTRESSFUL ALLIES. ATTEMPTED BLACKMAIL OF BRITAIN. London, April 14. In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil said no official information was available as to the condition of the Serbians, Inofficial reports indicated that the Austrian troops were not maltreating the population, though possibly there were isolated outrages by Bulgarian irregulars. 'me British Government was anxious to do anything possible, consistent with the paramount military considerations, to relieve the distress in Serbia, but lie desired emphatically to state that it was the duty of the occupying Power to provide for the well-being of the population, and they protested at the callousness which attempted to blackmail Britain and her Allies into replenishing supplies by deliberately starving the population.

EXPLANATION BY BRITISH MINISTER. ONLY GREECE TO BLAME. i (Received 8.50 a.m.) ' Athens', April 16. The British Minister, in an interview, said that had Greece properly watched her own waters and coast, the need for transporting tho Serbian, troops over the Greek railways.'VPOuld,' not have arisen, -'/,- ;;•-■•■•,'•*••''•' )**¥. THfe SERBIAN ARMyJ GREEK TENSION INOREASINp.-: ';„,.* ■>. ' Athens;, A.R I*s"-•/ «>, The situafifni is>app4rentiy ? becoihWing acute. talk; <<#-'}• re- t . sistance shdtild the Serbians use Greek railwaYs via Patras... ,•■>•"'".■-' FIGHT BETWEEN BULGARS AND GERMANS. SEVERAL KILLED AND , , . -WOUNDED. . >. > »-» ';. _ ', r Cti (Received 11.20 a.m.) , v > ' .Lphdqn, April'l6. i Salonika reports that in.-.a fisht <he-, tween . Bulgarians and Germans " v for possession of the telegraph office in a village westward of Lake Ochrida, several were killed and wounded on both sides, j