BALKANS.
CONDITION OF SERBIANS. ATTEMPTED BLACKMAIL OF BRITAN ALLIES UNABLE TO HELP. London, April 14. In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil said no official information was available as to the condition of the Serbians. Unofficial reports indicated that the Austrian troops were not maltreating the population, though possibly there were isolated outrages by Bulgarian irregulars. The British Government was anxious to do anything possible, consistent wjth the paramount military considerations, to relieve the distress in Serbia, but he desired smphatieally to state that it wa» the duty of the occupying Power to provide for the well-being of the population, and they protested at the callousness which attempted to blackmail Britain and her Allies into replenishing supplies by deliberately starving the population.
GREEK SITUATION. THE TENSION INCREASING. Received April 10, 5.5 p.m. Athena, April 15. The situation is apparently becoming acute. Newspapers talk of resistant; l should the Serbians use Greek railways via Patras. ANOTHER LIB. Received April 16, 11.5 p.m. London, April 10. Bucharest describes the alleged commercial treaty with Germany as a German falsehood, intended to influence German opinion.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1916, Page 5
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