THE BALKAN TROUBLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 189, 30 December 1912, Page 6

THE BALKAN TROUBLE.

WAR AND FINANCE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Vienna, December '27. The secretary of the State Bank estimates that thirteen millions sterling have been withdrawn from the banks owing to the war panic, which has seriously affected industries.

TURKISH PROPOSALS SCOUTED. London, December 27. Reuter says that the Allies' delegates are amazed' at the Turkish counterproposals. It is impossible, they say, seriously to discuss them. There must he no illusion about Adrianople, which is already regarded as Bulgarian property. GRECO-BULGARIAN FEELING. Salonika, December 27. The Greco-Bulgarian antagonism continues. A Bulgarian soldier insulted a Greek in a tram-car. and the latter havonetted and killed the Bulgarian. THE RAVAGES OF DISEASE. DESERTION AND DEATH. .

Received December 29, 5.5 p.m. Constantinople, December 25. Ten thousand Turkish soldiers ha ve died of disease at Chataldja. The cholera has disappeared, but the army is suffering from dysentery, 10 per cent, of the cases being fatal. Santa Sofia has been disinfected and cleared;of the deserters, seven 1 ' hundred of whom 3ied in a mosque. THE TURKISH TROOPS. Received December 29, 5.5 p.m. Constantinople, December 27. Officers are returning to Chataldja owing to complaints that the troops objected to be exposed to the bleak uplands while the officers were amusing themselves at Constantinople.

THE FATE OF SKUTAKJ. Vienna, December 28. . The Neue Freie Presse says that Austria objects to Montenegro securing Skutari, which is exclusively inhabited by Albanians, and must be incorporated as a new Albanian State. THE PEACE CONFERENCE. TURKISH PROPOSALS REJECTED. Received December 29, 5.5 p.m. London, December 29.

The Turks presented counter proposals to the conference. After discussion, the conference adjourned until Monday. It is semi-officially stated that the counter-proposals include the retention of Adrianople. the conversion of Macedonia into a neutral State, with Salonika as the capital under a Protestant prince chosen by the Allies on the Sultan's nomination, and that Albania shall be autonomous under the Sultan's sovereignty. under a prince of the Imperial Ottoman family, chosen for a quinquennium. with the possibility of a renewal of the appointment. All Aegean islands, the proposals ask, must remain Turkish. The Cretan question is beyond the scope of the conference. The counter-proposals proving unacceptable, the Turks have declared that they must recommunicate with Constantinople.