BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1915, Page 5

BALKANS.

TROUBLE FOR ROUMANIA. WHEAT ACCUMULATION. Bucharest, August 11. A financial catastrophe threatens owing to the accumulation of wheat worth sixty millions sterling. Grower* are pressing for permission to export, ami this is impossible, as Germany is withholding trucks in punishment for Roumania's refusal for the passage of munitions towards Turkey. The only remedy is tlie furring of the Dardanelles. It is feared there will be a rising of the peasantry unless the prohibition of exportation is removed. A PRETTY TANGLE. BULGARIA THE STUMBLING BLOCK. Times and Sydney: gun Services. London, August 11. Diplomatic circles at Home report that friendly conversations have been renewed between Serbia and Bulgaria, At Sofia as well as at Bucharest there is a conviction that a definite solution of the Balkan problem is unattainable at present, because none of the States afl'fl'ected wish to abandon their aspirations. The situation is complicated by the Auslro-German threat and the diplomacy of the quadruple Entente. After having sought for months for a basis of mutual agreement, there is a resolute attitude which has already created some impression in the Balkans, wdiere matters are beginning to favor the Entente. A Sofia correspondent states that the Turkish cession of the railway at Dcdeagaleh to Bulgaria is practically devoid of political importance. Bulgaria urged tlio concession before the war, which Turkey ultimately made in the hope of establishing; friendly relations with a well-armed neighbor. Difficulties are now arising over details. The Turks arj elated at the Russian reverses and are inereas'nfr the terms, which Bulgaria refuses. Negotiations are apparently at a standstill. The Entente's Note is expected to prepare the ground for a definite understanding with Bulgaria. YOUNG TURKS ANGRY. WOULD FIGHT BULGARIA. Received August 12, 11.50 p.m. . Paris, August 12. I.e Temps' correspondent says that as an outcome of the Austro-German victories in Poland the Young Turks, except Enver Tasini, are repugnant to making territorial concessions to Bulgaria. There was a stnrmv meeting at the Ministry of War Ofiice. ' Enver Pasha and von der Goltz explained the necessity of obtaining; Bulgaria's friendly neutrality, but the meeting rejected their views, while the more Ohauvenistic expressed the hope that Turkey would extend her borders, even over Bulgaria's dead bedy. SERVIA, WHY YET UNMOLESTED. Received August 12, 0.40 p.m. Athens, August 12. Prisoners and deserters state that the reason wtiv the A list rums have not renewed tlie'altarks on Horvia is that the Austrian commander is not strong enough lo undertake the work without help, end he is not willing lo avail himself of the Bavar'ans. who are regarded as unfit for mountain warfare. A COMPLEX QUESTION. BUIjG ARTA'S ALOO'EX ESS. Received August 12. 10.+"i p.m. Paris. August 12. Le Dcbafs learns that the Quadruple Entente n-fcod Sirvia and Greece to make concessions of Macedonia am! Kavalhi in order to obtain liulgm'ia's co-operation. I.e Debats adds (hut if Bulgaria wants guarantees for co-opera-tion there is nothing whieli at present warrants us committing ourselves to a guarantee. Le Matin states that the formula submitted to Ru'garia is that the Quadruple Entente should become depositaries 'of ceded territories till peace is declared. REJECTED (IV ROUMAXTA. Received August 12, 11.-10 p.m. Milan, August 12. The Ooit'iCl'c del Lascivi lias published a Bucharest despatch, deciarins that representatives of Krupps arrived at Bucharest with an offer of 3(1 lotteries, with ammmiitit n end a vast quantity of barbed wire, if Roumania would allow the lmssaae of ammunition destined for Turkev. Upon the interven--1 tion of the British Minister the offer was "-fuse'