The Balkan Trouble

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 193, 4 January 1913, Page 5

The Balkan Trouble

IRRECONCILABLE VIEWS. ly Cable—Prese A*sociation—Copyright. London, January 2. M. Daneff. interviewed, said tliat Adrianopie and the Aegean islands must be surrendered, and unless to-morrow's conference was in accordance with the terai9 of the Allies, negotiations v.ould be broken off., Reshid Pasha, interviewed, said that Turkey had abandoned an enormous extent of territory, but because she was beaten she did not intend to abandon Adrianopie and the Aegean islands.

FIGHTING IN PROGRESS. Athens, January 2. The Greeks repulsed further Turkish Attacks. An artillery duel is progressing. GREEK DEMAND FOR BOOTY. Berlin. .lanuary 2. The Constantinople correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung states that the Crown Prince of Greece required the Ottoman Bank at Salonika to hold at bis disposal the revenues of the Ottoman public debt, explaining that he claimed the surplus as booty. The Public Debt Commission,is protesting.

PREPARING FOR WAR. , Vienna, January 2. There is great military activity in Turkey. Over six thousand fresh troops are camped in the vicinity of Constantinople. Large naval orders for ammunition have been placed in Germahv.

AN ENGLISHMAN* KILLED. Athens, January 2. (Mr. Palmer Newbould, a member of the Balkans Committee, lias been killed while fighting at Bizani as a volunteer.

THE AMBASSADORS' CONFERENCE. ALBANIAN AUTONOMY. Receivel January 3, 10.35 p.m. London. January 3. The Ambassadors' conference has resumed. In consequence of the conference reorganising the principle of Albanian autonomy, three Albanian delegates have arrived to arrange the details.