IN THE BALKANS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 90, 11 September 1914, Page 8

IN THE BALKANS

MOXTEXEGRIX VICTORY. AUSTRIAN'S ©BKKATED IX BOSNIA. Received 10, 10.15 p.m. Rome, September 10. A telegram from Skutrivukotitch states that three Montenegrin columns, after a stubborn fight, occupied Focin, an important position south of Sarajevo, in Bosnia. The Serbo-Monteiiegrin objective is to reach the centre of Bosnia and arouse the Serb population. TURKEY WORBLINC. APPROACHING A GERMAN-MADE ABYSS. Received 11, 12.15 a.m. London, September 10. The Times' Athens correspondent states that influential opinion in Constantinople is beginning to realise that Germany is pushing the nation towards an abyss. The newspaper Tanin, at Constantinople, publishes an article declaring that Turkey is wobbling, but public opinion might force her to abandon neutrality and side with Germany. . TURKEY TIRED~OF IT. Bucharest, Septcrr.'ucr 5). A revolt broke out in tile. Turkish Army at Adrianople, owing | 0 a famine. The people in Constantinople are discovering the falseness of the var news of the German agencies, and are besieging the Embassies of thj Triple Entente to ascertain the. latest intelligence. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES ITA.YE STEADYING EFFECT. Times and Sidney Sun Scrvkcs. London, September & Russian successes have increased Roumanian enthusiasm fur the Entente, aiur have generally steadied tile whole of tti-; Balkan Peninsula.