BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1915, Page 5

BALKANS.

BULGARIA MOBILISING. 7RBI« J' <: > ' .--•• IS IT ARMED NEUTRALITY,! \ London, Sept. 22. Official: A general mobilisation of the Bulgarian forces has been ordered today. The Bulgarian Minister in Londan states that Bulgaria, in view of contingencies, is seeking to maintain an armed neutrality. "Amsterdam, Sept. 28. The Bulgarian Legation at Berlin announces that a general mobilisation was ordered yesterday. AIL Bulgarians of military age in Germany have been instructed to immediately return. Similar instructions have been issued to Bulgarians in Austria and Roumania, and also to Bulgarian officers in France,

TENSION IN BULGARIA. THE POSITION-ACUTE. Received Sept. 23, 11.50 p.m. Sofia, Sept. 23. M. Radoslavoff has notified his supporters of His signature to the convention with Turkey for the future maintenance of Bulgaria's armed neutrality. There is keen tension in the political world. The Opposition demand the convocation of the Chamber, but there are no public meetings owing to the desperate state of siege. The military are also exercising a censorship, , The cavalry regiments were ordered to the border, after receiving a standard from tho palace, where the flags of all regiments were kept.

INTEREST IN GREECE. CAVALRY ON THE MOVE. m , . Athens, Sept, 28. Ihe news of the Bulgarian mobilisation caused considerable excitement in Athens. The King conferred with M. Venezelos, and the Cabinet subsequently met. All the Bulgarian reservists in Macedonia and Thrace, numbering 45,000, have ibeen summoned to the colors.

Sofia advices state that 100,000 are mobilised. Several cavalry regiments left Sofia for an unknown destination. The British, French, and Russian Ministers collectively had a conference with M. Venezelos.

STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER. Copenhagen, Sept. 22. A Vienna message Btates that M. Radoslavoff, addressing the Cabinet, declared: "Bulgaria cannot remair. unmoved in the presence of the quickly developing situation, In order to be prepared for all eventualities she must keep up the strong force which she now has time to mobilise."

ATTACK ON SERBIA. ANOTHER GERMAN BOAST. Amsterdam, Sept. 22. German newspapers are boasting that Serbia will feel the force of the mailed fist and that the Germans will accomplish what the Austrian army was unable to do.

SERBIAN REPORT. VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT. Received Sept. 23, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Sept. 22. A Serbian communique states: The enemy on Sunday made a violent bombardment, firing eight hundred shells on our Danube positions, but with insignificant results. •