In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 75, 1 July 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

AEROPLANES FIRE BULCARS' CROPS. DESTRUCTION IN WESTERN THRACE. United Press Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Salonika, Juno 30. French aeroplanes fired the crops on the borders of Bulgaria, causing considerable destruction, especially in Western Thrace. AUSTRIANS GIVE WAY AT KOLOMEA. Vienna, June 30. A communique states: The enemy m East Kolomea renewed his mass attacks on a front of forty kilometres. There was stubborn fighting. Reserves at several points, hurryifig for ward, repulsed superior numbers o'.. the enemy, but in the evening they were obliged to retire from a part of the front at Kolomea and southwards. 205,000 AUSTRO-CERMANS CAPTURED. Petrograd, June 30. A communique states: After artillery preparation, General Leichitsky’s troops, despite the enemy’s desperate resistance, dealt a violent blow between the Dneister and the Pruth, carrying three lines of trendies. Des* perate fighting began on the front along the river Thertwetz, a tributary of tho Dneister, and around the town of Kuty where we inflicted losses on the enemy. In addition to 10,500 prisoners for the day, and a large number of machine guns, one regiment captured a heavy battery with four guns intact.

The Total Austro-Germans captured since the 4th amount to 205,000. Desperate fighting continues in the village of Linovka, on the Stockhod. ANCLO-ROUMANIAN TRANSACTION. Bucharest, May 6. The Politique and other -organs of the Margiloman pro-German party have been publishing articles violently attacking the agreement come to between the Roumanian Millers’ Syndicate and the British Buyers’ Syndicate with reference to the making and purchase of flour for export. The proGerman newspapers arc particularly exasperated by the stipulation in tho agreement with the British syndicate that no flour should fie made for any other foreign buyers for four months, with the result that the contract with Turkey, Austria and Germany cannot be carried out during that time. Appeals are made to the Government to intervene. The Government, replying to the attacks in the semi-official journal Independence Rumaine, points out that the British contracts were concluded before the establishment of the Central Export Committee, and must be considered as of a purely private character. Turkish agents who came here in the hope of obtaining flour are also very much annoyed, and arc blaming the German consortium. They even go so far as to declare that the Germans have assumed the monopoly of re-victualling Turkey, and that the Turks cannot obtain the smallest amount of goods. The German consortium has established an office in Constantinople which monopolises the sale of the city food supplies, thug preventing Ottoman tradesmen from doing business. The greatest discontent constantly prevails in the Turkish capital.