BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1915, Page 5

BALKANS.

BULGARIA "SQUARED." TURCO-BTJLGAR TREATY SIGNED. Received Sept. 11, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 10. The Bulgarian semi-official journal Dnevi confirms the statement that the Tureo-Bulgarian treaty was signed on Monday, taking effect on September 20. Bulgaria gains 1250 kilometres in Thrace. t..,;:;*1 ••*#!* STILL TANGLED. TURCO-BULGARIAN AGREEMENT. Received Sept. 12, 3 p.m. Rotterdam, Sept. 11. In the Vossiche Zeitung M. Radostravoff declares that Bulgaria has not accepted obligations in return for the forced Turkish territory, which must be regardedjis an indemnity for her neutrality hitherto. ACTS NOW NEEDED. STATEMENT BY GREEK PREMIER. (Times and Sydney Sun Service.). Eeceived Sept. 11, 6.55 p.m. London, Sept. 11. , M. Venezelos, interviewed by a representative of La Petit Parisieri, said lie intended to preserve a hermetical silence. "I am endeavoring to regain my old path, and we will meet there. Acts, not words, are now needed, and, above everything, is needed discretion, until October. I intend to work to reestablish everything in order that harmony may prevail." CLOSING THE FRONTIERS. SECRET MOVING OF TROOPS. Received Sept, 12, 3 p.m. I Geneva, Sept. 11. Austria has closed the Swiss and Roumanian frontiers, and troops guard the crossing. This is attributed to secret movements of troops. SERBIA TO SUFFER. GERMAN ATTACK IMMINENT. Received Sept. 12, 3.15 p.m. Athens, Sept. 11. Reports from Budapest state that a German attack on Serbia is imminent. BELGRADE? .'- PROTECTED BY FREXCH AEROPLANES. * Received Sept. 13, 12.55 a.m. Paris, Sept. 12. The Austrians do not dare to attack Belgrade. Rear-Admiral Troubridge, with a party of bluejackets from the Mediterranean fleet, with 'big guns, have been making good practice daily for five months past, and arc now bombarding the trenches which the Austrians are constructing on the opposite side of the Danube. The Freneii also have several guns covering Semlin. Moreover, a squadron of French aeroplanes is protecting Belgrade, and it wrecked three Austrian machines of the Aviatik "type.