In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 69, 26 June 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

CREEK MERCHANTMEN RE- § LEASED. *

UmTttD Puss* Association. » (Received 9 a.m.) - Athens, June 25. I The Allies have released the Greek* merchantmen which were recently held-up, including n number whiciF were wheat-laden. THE LATEST PHASE. BULCARS TAKE CREEK FRONTIER FORTS. London, June 2J. I The Daily Chronicle's Salonika cor-* respondent says that the Bulgarians! are reported to be advancing, fromtwo points, towards the important* fort of Feapetra, northward of Demir Hissar. They also crossed the river Mesta, the dividing line between Bulgaria and Greek Macedonia. * This indicates that the Bulgars have£ taken the Greek frontier forts. § . ;•" ' | ROUMANIA'B POSITION. * _/.',... • -S " . .-•• ■.. ■ . | ALLEGED OFFER OF GIERNO- * WITZ BY RUSSIA. I ■' ■< I ■ Bucharest, June 24. A correspondent of the Idea Nazionale savs that Russia has offered Czernowitz to Roumama if the latter side* with the Allies. THE ELECTIONS IN JULY. Athans, June 23. The elections have been fixed for the end of July. •■ "i GERMAN PRESS COMMENT. \

Copenhagen, June 21, 5 The Tageblatt anticipates a Venize- { lißt majority at the Greek elections, | and adds: ''lf M. Yenizelos and hißs subsequent Cabinet decides that Greece?' must join the Allies, King Constantins as head of the army must act as Ujp thinks best. The army will obey,^fna. Kiag!s£ :■ pi&*sr jr