BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1916, Page 5

BALKANS.

TURKEY TIRING. . AFRAID OF BULGARIA', A SIGNIFICANT OMEN Received March 19, 5.5 p.n, Salonika, March IS. Tk* Turkish newspaper Moudjaelc j states that the Grand Council, including ■ali Miuisters and several senators/wot last wvek and discussed the terms «n which Turkey will propose to co-operate witk the Entente against Bulgaria, | BULGARIA OBSTINATE. „ HER DIFFERENCE WITH GERMANY. Received March 20, 12.55 t.m. Bucharest, -March IS. A neutral diplomatist from Sofia says that Germany asked Bulgaria to .undertake the offensive on Salonika, lint kmffaria, refiised, declaring that AustroGermany had not fulfilled their pledges, THE NEAR EAST PROBLEM. GERMANS AT MONASTIR. Received March 19,, 6.5 p.m. Athens, March 18. Germans from Russia have arrived at the Ghevgeli-Monastir front, and are commencing serious military preparatiww. KING FERDINAND IN - DANGER. u ... BOMBS FOUND IN THE PALACE. Received March 1!), 5.3 p.m. Rome, March 18. A wireless message states that bombs were discovered in the Palace at Sofia. Several arrests have bees made. , NEXT BALKAN MOVE. Paris, January 4. Discussing the probable action of Germany in the Balkans, General Malleterre writes in the Temps:—"From a military point of view Germany should remove the danger of an Allied offensive by capturing Salonika. It would be costly, but that is a matter for calculation. "From a political point of -view, the operating raises difficulties which may come from Greece, and even from tha Bulgars. "But if the Germans consider the, capture of Salonika necessary, they will make the required effort. Only it would take time to transport the troops and material, and it is in the calculation of the time and In the resulting comparison of the two strategies that must be sought the denouement of the struggle in the Near East. "For we must assume that since we remain at Salonika it is with the intention of making use of it; that if the Italians have landed at Valona it is in order to unite with the Serbs and march into Albania; that if the Russians have been able to constitute an army in Bessarabia it is with a view to obtaining a passage through Rumania. "If we see the Anglo-French army advance from Salonika, supported on the left by Italio-Serblan troops and with the Russians and Rumanians in the north of the peninsula united as in 1877, then we may perceive the end of the Balkan nightmare, which has done so much to prolong the war. Victory in the Near.East will prepare and hasten decisive action in i the West."