IN ROUMANIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1915, Page 5

IN ROUMANIA.

BULGAR SPIES ARRESTED, Received Oct. >l 8.30 p.m. Bucharest, Oct. 7. Several Bulgarian officers, in the disguise of peasants, hav.; been arrested in Roumania, making plans of the frontier fortifications.

BULGARIA'S REWARD. AND GERMAN PROMISES. Receive*! Oct. 8, 8.30 p.m. Salonika, Oct. 7. The pro-Gorm;,n Bulgarian newspaper Kambana stated that Bulgaria Ims undertaken to place her railways at Germany's disposal, and also to attack Serbia, while 300,000 Germans attack Northern Serbia. Germany has promised, in the event of Roumanian interference, to send another 300,000 troops against Roumania. Bulgaria's reward will be the possession of Serbian Macedonia, with a free hand to ultimately settle accounts with Greece.

THE SALONIKA LANDING. FRENCH ANNOUNCEMENT. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received Oct. ?, 5.5 p.m. Athens, Oct. 7. The French Minister handed M. Venizeloa a letter previous to the landing as follows: By order of my Government I have the honor to announce the arrival at Salonika of (ho first detachment of French troops, and to declare that France, Britain, and her Allies, on behalf of Serbia, are sending these troops to. help that country to maintain communications. We rely upon Greece as a friend not to oppose us. (Paris reports that tV-e French officers were given full liberty to prepare for the landing.

VERSIONS FROM THE TIMES. STRENGTH OF ENEMY TROOPS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.). Received Oct. 8, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 7. Advices received from a high Italian authority state that Bulgaria has decided not to collaborate with the AustroGermans, unles? Macedonia is menaced, owing to the fear that Austria would retain Macedonia.

Le Petit Parisien's Petrograd correspondent states there are only ono hundred thousand iustro-Cermans in Bauat, threatening Serbia. On the other hand, I the Serbian Legation insists that military information shows the number to be live hundred thousand, and Bucharest reports the total to l,e four hundred thousand at Bauat, divided in two zones, which the military administration lias established. Civilians have been ordered to evacuate the zone. The Vienna Press asserts that the French landing at Salonika was small, and is merely a Huff.

VARIOUS ITEMS. GERMAN STORIES. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, Oct. 7. Theobald Wolff, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt, believes that the landing force consists only of Dardanelles troops. The Allies' first objective 'will be to occupy the railway line at Uskub. The Frankfurter Zeitung says that the Aiiies, tired of tne Dardanelles, are selecting Salonika as a new base of operations.

BULGARIANS FIRE ON GREEK VESSELS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, Oct. 7. Athens reports that Bulgarian revenue cutters pursued and fired on three Greek sailing ships, which were not damaged. SERBIAN ARMY READY. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, Oct. 7. American Red Cross doctors from Serbia declare that the army is in a splendid physical condition. The typhus scourge has been stamped out. WHERE TIIE ALLIES LANDED. IMPORTANCE OF SALONIKA. Salonika is one of the principal seaports of South-west Europe, and is the terminus of four railways. One goes io Nish, in Servin, another brandies off to Nitrovitza. in Albania, a third line runs to Monastir, and a fourth to Constantinople. The Constantinople line has proved of great strategic importance on several occasions. During the war between Greece and Turkey in 1597 it facilitated the rapid concentration of Turkish troops on the borders of Thossaly. and in J!10S it helped to .secure the triumph of the Young Turks by bringing the. regiments favorable to their propaganda within striking distance of Constantinople,

Tiro Salonika-Constantinople railway lias a length of 317 miles, and was built 1/Y French capital in ISDO, when its route was, wholly in Turkish territory. It touches the Bulgarian port of Dedeagatch on tin- Aegean Sea. Dedeagalch is one of the chief outlets of the fjmin trade of the Adrianople district. On the opening of the Salonika line it increased rapidly in size, but suffered a set-back when a line connecting Burgas, a Bulgarian port on the Black Sea. with the interior, was opened. Owing to the lack of shelter in its 'open roadstead Dedeagateh has not become the great commercial centre its position otherwise qualifies it to be.