War in the Balkans

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 25, 30 June 1913, Page 5

War in the Balkans

WAR OR PEACE? THE RETREATING BULGARIANS. By Cable—'Press Association—Copyright. Belgrade,. June 27. The Skuptschina, sitting with closed toors, decided on the question of war »r peace. 5- When* the Bulgarians were retreating |rom Zletova they threw away their firms and'knapsacks. The Servians puriued them towards Kotchana. r -' HERETICAL MONKS. ! Salonkia, June 27. A force of Russian, Greek and Bulgaria landed on Mount Athos, fhere* some heretical monks occupy a tussian monastery and defy the authorty of the,church. Sardiansky, a Bulgarian band leader, 9 .going to Vdllona to organise some Llbanian 'bands to operate in Epirus. . BULGARIA'S ATTITUDE. Earned by France and Russia. * TENSION" NLESS ACUTE. I Received 29, 15.5 p.m. ~ , London. June 28. Daily Telegraph's Bucharest corespondent is informed that Bulgaria, in; j«(jOTent of war between the Servian jjSVßbumanian troops, will cross the tap'tfbe. ""if lis "bejfievedthat France anfl Russia' the threat as a warning to Itflg&ria not to defy united Europe, j,:. * Belgrade, June 28. iT*he Skuptschina has adjourned until londay. • ' ' Vienna, June 28. i Hetr Sturgkh, speaking in fhe Reichssaid that the Balkan tension is I ew.aeute, and he was hopeful <rf a paciic.settlement. I"' • Sofia, June 28. ! •A 'Bulgarian , memorandum says that pssuL claims the contested zone on etiological grounds. If Russia is not disused to assign the whole, it snggests a lebiscite on the disputed districts. The lemoradum recalls that Alexander 11., Mer the San Stefano treaty, declared biat'Macedonia was Bulgarian soil. , SHEVKETS MURDERERS, f' ' AN UNFAIR TRIAL. Constantinople, June 28. jT)ie executions have created an un-j ayorable impression. The evidence gainst Pamad Salih is regarded as limsy. The prisoners were not permitted to call witnesses or allowed adpcates. % ' K.' , SOME GRIM STORIES. y ~ '.MONTENEGRIN HEROES. : .Grim stories have been told recently T fighting around Scutari in the ffess,,preceding the fall of the town. !nia ..Turks at Tarabosh occupied tren(jeS' tylbng thesummit of the hill and ieWjprotected bv a belt .of barbed wire ntanglements. The Montenegrins, who ad crept slowly up the hillside behind dyancing walls of stone, lay some fifty ards away and could not make the final nab because the wires would have causI a fatal delay. Then old men in the [ontenegrin ranks declared that the retoyal of the entanglements must be iieir work. "Old men—life no use," was heir explanation, and with bombs in Ken" hands the grey-bearded heroes iished forward to certain death. They all. riddled with bullets as the explosion their bombs tore sections of the wire pwards in showers of stones and dust. The sons buried the old men, whose tea, in this stern country were so little se that.,they gave them gladly so that heir-land might be something more than nfruitful mountains of limestone," pfites Mr A Courlander in describing he incident. "You may see their gravis n Tarabosh by the tangled wreckage if the barbed-wire fences they tore up pith their bombs, marked by crosses, ifeces of shells, by the butts of their roken rifles and their bayonets." 'You cannot buy patriotism," says \t Courlander. "To Montenegro, fightng with all her manhood, came the ■olunteers' from the mines of Nevada, rom Arizona, from California and from few York —Montenegrins who were comaratively prosperous in the New World, hrowing up jobs at a moment's not ire, «ying their own passage from faraway Lmerica, ti-amping the mountainous niles from Cattaro and Antivari to Jettinje, all for a rifle and rounds of immunition. Qddly enough, most of !hem were naturalised Americans, but at leart they were Montenegrins. The nountain land held no life for them; jhey found no sustenance in the barren tosom of the motherland. Yet, back they fcme, gladly and eagerly." These volunteers had nothing to win but the coniciousness of loyal service and very panv of them died in battle. But each jf them went to the front "with the ntimate soul of himself rejoicing that he ras not a craven or a listless, idle one, Uratent to let others do the fighting." Ho grudging seryice was rendered in Montenegro.