THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

ONE NATION TIRED. ARMS LAID DOWN. MON'TESEGRO SUES FOR PEACE. Received Jan. IS, 4.53 p.m. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Jan. IS. A German wireless states that Montenegro has laid down her arms and has asked for peace. .. . ni(k± UNCONDITIONAL CAPITULATION. STjTiCMEICT RT HUN'GARIAX ASSEMBLY. Received Jan 18, 5.40 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 17. Count Tisza announced in the Hungarian Parliament that Montenegro had agreed to unconditional capitulation as a preliminary to peace. ~ (^. _ AUSTRIA'S "ITRST FRUITS." - Received Jan. 19, 12.33 a.ra, Amsterdam, Jan. 18. ■ Count Tisza announced that the Montenegrin King and Government had accepted Austria's preliminary conditions for an unconditional capitulation. He said that the event was gratifying to the nation, which was reaping the first fruits of perseverance and heroism.

, - ITALY'S DUTIES. CRITICISM ANSWERED. .Times and Sydney Sim Services. Received Jan. 18, 5.5 p;m_ London, Jan. 17. The Times' 'Rome correspondent, answering the criticisms of neglect about Montenegro, points out that General Cadorna must be ready for a big offensive when the Allies' War Council orders a general advance. General Cador-na must also remember the possibilities of a German-Austrian offensive on a grand scale Assuming that Italy has 300,000 soldiers available immediately, it might be unwise to send them across the Adriatic. Italy lias not a superfluity of men or material* The latter was in a deplorable condition in 1914, but superhuman efforts have partly remedied this. The pity is that, each of the Allies recently was inclined to think tne others ought to be doing more or better, or both. Fault-finding should be eliminated before it becomes ingrained. AT CORFU. LANDING COMPLETED, DODGING THE SUBMARINES. Reecived Jan. 18, 8.50 p.m. London, Jan. 17. The landing at Corfu has been an outstanding feat of organisation, every man, gun, and mule, with food and forage, being disembarked. French cruisers convoyed the destroyers, steaming at 19 knot's, without lights, and reached Corfu on Monday night, and escaped the submarines that are infesting the Corfu •channel, A submarine that was lurking at Corfu torpedoed the Leon Gambetta. Before the inhabitants of the island were awake the Chasseurs Alpini had seized the quays. The German Consul fled in his nightgown, but the French did not trouble to arrest him. The landing was completed in five liour,»

ROUGH WEATHER. IMPEDES THE ENEMY, Received Jan. 18, 8.50 p.m. London, Jan. 17. A Salonika despatch states that a violent wind and snowstorm has plunged Macedonia and Lower Serbia into Arctic conditions, necessitating the suspension of the Bulgar-Gcrman concentration on the frontier, the roads being impassable. DAMAGE TO RAILWAYS. FORCES AT SALONIKA Received Jan. 18, 5.5 p.m. Athens, Jan. 17, The British blew up the Kilindir and other railway depots, and have destroyed the railway at Kilindir and Demirhissar. Le Petit Parisien states that the enemy on the Greek frontier has increased to 250,000. The British are constantly landing reinforcements at Salonika and Calcidice (the peninsula near Salonika). AN AGREEMENT. PRISONERS TO BE HANDED TO GREECE. • deceived Jan. 18, 5.5 p.m. Milan, Jan. 17. Britain, France, Bulgaria and Greece have signed an agreement at Athens that Bulgarians and Anglo-French who are taken prisoner on Greek soil shall be handed over to Greece at the expense of the captors. SERBIAN GOVERNMENT AT BRINDISI. Rome, Jan. 17. The Serbian Government, with Allied diplomats accredited by King Peter, have arrived at Brindisi. """MTIIANS ARRESTED. x. Athens, Jan. 17. It is seml-oiii<.i»..y stated that the Auslro-Hungarian Consul at Corfu and the Austrian-Lloyd Company's agent have been arrested-