THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

INVASION OF GREECE. PRACTICALLY CERTAIN-. Received Jan. 3, f1.5 p.m. Athens, Jan. 2. The air raid and arrests of the Consuls at Salonika has caused a commotion. It is regarded as a commencement of hostilities in Greek territory. | It is expected that General Mackensen will succeed in persuading the Buigars to enter Greece. i ENEMY CONSULS SENT HOME. GREECE ANNOYED. Salonika, January 2. King Peter has arrived at Salonika on board a French destroyer. Enemy consuls and their suites, numbering 51, were sent on a steamer to an unknown destination. General Sarrail declares that he acted after full consideration and carried out an act of war. Greece, in addition to a protest, has asked for the return of the Consular archives. > Some newspapers denounce General Sarrail's action as a violation of Greece's sovereign rights. The Entente press justify it as a reply to aeroplanes bombarding neutral unfortified towns. The Allies continue to guard the consulates. TYiPHUS IN SERBIA. Paris, January 2. A Frenvh medical mission has returned from Serbia. The leader, M. Jaubert, states that he found the situation frightful. Fifty thousand were stricken with typhus, and there were 150 deaths daily at Belgrade. Out of 350 doctors, 125 had died. A state of terror prevailed. The mission succeeded in mastering the epidemic before the invasion.