The Balkan War

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 244, 5 March 1913, Page 5

The Balkan War

WAR CRITICISM. By Cable— Press Association—Copyright. London. March 3. The Westminster Gazette says that the result of the Balkan War'is now seen in the competition in armaments, . but the fact is that there i-- in- J creasecf 1 ■ prospect of a European .var. The paper endorses the strongly expressed manifesto by German and French Socialists, affirming that the mass of the two peoples desire peace. The Pall Mall Gazette complains of German aggressiveness, and demands preparation br Britain. BULGARIAN'S LOOK IKG FOR TROUBLE. Constantinople, March 3. The Bulgarians fired on the British steamer Moeris, and also on French and Italian steamers, in the Sea of Marmora. The French suffered slightly. MONTENEGRIN MESSAGE TO SERVIA. St. Petersburg, March 3. The King of Montenegro, in a message to the Slavs, says they would rather be annihilated than return without Scutari, which must he captured or evacuated before the peace manifesto is signed. THE TERMS OF PEACE. Received 4, 5.5 p.m. Rome, March 3. Notwithstanding mediation, the Allies demand * the surrender of Adrianople, Scutari and Janina. a Bulgarian frontier from Rodosto to Midia. and the cession of Gallipoli and the Peninsula Islands occupied by the Greeks, and Turkey to pay an adequate war indemnity as a reduction of a portion of the debt borac by the European provinces.