BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1915, Page 5

BALKANS.

%_ > ■ - THE WAR IN SERBIA. ITALY AIDING. RUSSIA TO ATTACK BULGARIA. Amsterdam, Oct. 11. Salonika telegrams state that 30,000 Allied troops lauded and are being used to assure the communications from Salonika to.Senbia. Italy is "now co-operating in the landing and transport of troops. She is likely to take an active part in the Balkans expedition, . The Frankfurter Zeitung states that the Allies are preparing to land at Dede-Agatcli. Russia is also preparing to attack Bulgaria. BETWEEN BELGRADE AND NISH. COMMUNICATION CUT. Athens, Oct. 11. Anti-war demonstrations have broken out at Varna and Rustchuk. It is learned that during the AustroCerman bombardment six thousand shells ruined several quarters of Belgrade. Communication between Belgrade and Nish is cut. THE BULGARIAN CAMPAIGN. 300,000 ALLIED MEN WANTED. Petrograd, Oct. 11. M. Nadeau interviewed an officer formerly in Bulgaria, who said tliat the Allies must come overwhelmingly from Salonika, prepared to meet 400,000 Tin!garians, as good fighters an the U:rmans. Many were born in Macedonia, which they are determined to reconquer. •He estimates that the Allies must send 300,000 men. A small army would undergo the peril of being swamped. He recommends the Allies to sicken the Bulgarians at first by a plentiful shower of shells. BULGARIA'S IGNOMINY. SOME HOME-TRUTHS. Petrograd, Oct. 11. M. Madjarioff, Bulgarian Minister, who has resigned his position, states that although he has not been given his passport, he is leaving Petrograd forthwith. He adds: "The Bulgarian Government's adventure will remain an ignominy in her history. Russia secured the liberty of Bulgaria, whose future is very dark because she has failed in the moral obligations which are indispensable to the foundation and existence of small States. I am returning to Bulgaria, and shall tell the whole truth regardless of personal danger, I only hope that Russia will not leave Bulgarians for ever in the lurch, making the country entirely responsible for the faults of the present Government." REPORTS FROM PARIS. THE SECRET AGREEMENT. Paris, Oct. 11. The Serbian Minister declares: "If the army we expect from the Allies allows us to devote ourselves against the assailant from the north we will fight without uneasiness and oppose the invaders again victoriously." A Serbian officer says: "If the Allies look after Bulgaria we will go into battle singing." It is stated that over an army corps crossed the Save at Semendria, including Bavarians and Prussians with strong artillery. Le Matin, commenting on the official German denial of the existence of a secret agreement, states that the information emanates from M. Venizelos, who has discovered the agreement since his resignation. The British Legation at Athens considered the information unimpeachable and justifying communication with Greece. THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE. WHAT BRITAIN MUST DO. London, Oct. 11. The Globe, in an outspoken article, advocates an immediate change of the Gallipoli operations in order to put an overwhelming force in Macedonia and make Serbia's positioh impregnable. A continuance of the half-hearted attack at Gallipoli, while sending an adequate force to Macedonia, is plainly suicidal. The paper says: —If we leave Serbia to battle alone while General Hamilton pushes on at Gallipoli with all speed, Germany may be able to link up her armies with Turkey. We will then risk the loss of India, and permit the fatal wedge to be driven between Britain and Australia and New Zealand. "WILLIE THE WEED." PLANS TO REGAIN LOST KINGDOM. Rome, Oct. 11. An arrival from Albania reports that Prince William of Wied (late Prince of Albania) is fighting with the Germans against Serbia, planning that when Serbia is crushed he will return to Albania, disperse the Montenegrins, and re-establish himself at Durazzo, constituting an Albanian kingdom under Austrian protection. The landing of the Allies at Salonika continues. CLOSING UP. ENEMY NEAR ROUMANIAN FRONTIER. Received Oct. 12, 10.5 p.m. Milan, Oct. 12. Refugees sate that SO Bulgarians were shot on the Black Sea coast for refusing to enlist against Russia. 11 Corriere della Sera says that large masses of Austro-German and Bulgarian troops are close to the Roumanian frontier, and heavy guns dominate the railway towards Bucharest.