The Balkans

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1915, Page 5

The Balkans

RESULTLESS. TUKKU-BUUiARIAN AOKKIO.MENT. Received .July :>l, 5.0 p.m. Paris, -loly 30. Lc Matin states that the Austro-Ger-man attempts to arrange a TurkoBulgavian agreement have proved unsuccessful. TREATY WITH ROUMANIA. Wil.r, .JOIN Tll£ ALLIES. London July 30. Router's Paris correspondent says that negotiations for Roumania's entry into the war on the Allies' side are proceeding satisfactorily. A treaty has been prepared, and awaits the signature of only one belligerent. It provides that Roumania shall intervene within two months of the conclusion of the treaty. -Meanwhile there is the strictest examination of goods to Turkey. Roumania has asked the Allies to lend expert customs examiners.

OVERTURES TO SERBIA. OFFERS DKLLIXKU. Paris. July .'lO. Tilt' President ol tlie Serbian Council of Ministers states that Austria thrice sounded Serbia regard a separate peace. offering a rectification of tinBosnian, llerzefjovinian, and Albanian frontiers, access to the Adriatic, ami certain economic advantages, Serbia declined all the offers. The .President ndde.l ibat Serbia desires an agreement with P>u!.u,ar:a aim twice made proposals without success. Serbia is aUo desiroiu of an Italian alliance and agrees to Italy's preeminence in the Adriatic, which was no\er disputed. nrLc.\i!i-A's pnMTiav. \\ Il.i. N(iT AiAYAVS V>V. NKT'l'llAl.. Received AllLll-T 1. ">-•*) p.m. ran", duly ill. !«■ Pet it Parbien had an intcrivew Willi M. Kado-Oavnj)'. who denied that }«!ii'jaria. i- ready to march en the ndc of Au>,(r</-(ierinany. The Turkish neb\t ioiw are merely simple di-cn--Mon in i'e-pect to the railway from l)e- - Alustaphapsirdia. IVulpU'ia would not always 'be neutral: he could nr>t say wiflt whom she would side, but tim weight Wa-> solely in the dbec linn of her national inleie.-ts. The Kntcute coiild i-Idain Ibiiunria's assistance if they secured from Set 1 - via the restitution of.that }>art of .Mm -c • ilunia which is .Bulgaria*-;. CrdiAIANY'S STKRXCTH AUAIXST HRRYTA. I Received .August 1, p.m. ' Tiomo, July 31. Advices /mm Soiia state that the ftcriv.ans ave citing ready three army cops /or service against Servia, ' i