BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1916, Page 5

BALKANS.

ATROCITIES IN SERBIA. AUSTRIAN-BULCAR MURDERERS. London, March 21. The Daily Telegraph correspondent at Rome says that the Allies will shortly publish evidence and documents proving that Austria and Bulgaria were guilty of massacres in Serbia exceeding those of the Turks in Armenir.. M. Passitch has communicated to Italy and the Pope testimony showing that there were 700,(100 victims. Whole districts were thus depopulated. The Austrians made prisoners of women, children, and old men in the churches and stabbed them with bayonets ° r suffocated them with asphyxiating gas. Three thousand were suffocated in one church. Serbian refugees report seeing Germans and Austrians distribute among Bulgarians machines for producing gas and instructing them in their use. The Bulgarians suffocated many people, and the Austrians employed similar means in Montenegro.

DISSATISFIED BULGARS. MUTINY AND MASSACRE. Received March 22, 5.il p.m. Athens, March 21. 'A Bulgarian monk who lias reached Salonika reports that a Bulgarian regiment at Palanka mutinied, and killed their officers and Sgoureff, chief of the secret police.. GETTING READY. TO DECIDE GERMANY'S FATE. Received March 22, 5.3 p.m. Paris. March 21. The Figaro states that the forces at Salonika are preparing for action, and that the military chiefs and representatives of the Allies arc going to decide Germany's fate. GREECE'S FINANCE. A TEMPORARY EMBARRASSMENT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Mafeh 21. Mr. Jefferies says that the Athens Government proposes to ta?c everything possible to meet the monotavv embarrassment, and a request has be-ra made to London for a loan. If the Ministry is forced to resign M. Zaimis will probably form an interim Ministry. He probably could have iouud a way for the return of M. Venizelos. It is highly improbable that Germany can give a loan, therefore we hold a winning position.