BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1916, Page 5

BALKANS.

RUMANIA PREPARING. ... FOR THE ALLIES. ) Received March 21, 5.5 p.m. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, March 20. The Times' correspondent at Bucharest says that Roumanian military preparations are being hurried forward. Those men who were previously exempted from military service have been called to the colors. The lists of officers have been revised, and several generals, inelnding the chief of the General 'Staff, have been pensioned off. The War Office lias requisitioned all available copper and linen. The hopes of the Germanophiles in Roumania, who have continued a friendly neutrality, are destroyed since the return of M. Carpins from Vienna, as the reduced terms offered are unsatisfactory. There is 110 doubt that M. Filipescu's recent visit tn the Russian front had a close connection with the future attitude of Itoumania,

GREECE'S FINANCES. GOVERNMENT ALMOST BANKRUPT. London, March '2O, The Daily Mail's Athens correspondent says the Government is greatly embarrassed by lack of money. Its coffers are exhausted by the continuance of mobilisation, and it is unable to pay civil servants; even telegraph messengers are unpaid. The wives of soldiers are making demonstrations outside the Government offices and demanding their pittance.