THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

ROUMANIAN ATTITUDE. j GERMANY ALARMED. AUSTRIA'S FALL PREDICTED. , Received August 24, 6.45 p.m. London, August 23. Berlin is becoming increasingly alarmed iit Roumania's attitude. The King's prolonged interviews with diplomats and A! Filipescu are regarded as significant. Increased war feeling and giavity is noticeable at Bucharest. 'Thousand's of German spies are ovci-runiiiug the country, proclaiming the objective ot the business. M. Joncseu writes to the Paris Journal that Austria will fall, whereupon Germany will be besieged until a collapse compels them to capitulate. Received August 24, 11.40 p.m. London, August 24. The Horning Post's correspondent at Budapest states that the Hungarians are flooding the papers witii pessimistic articles regarding the possibility of Roumania joining the Allies. The fact that the censor allows the articles to appear suggests the authorities are preparing the public for the worst. What is actually going on in Rouniania is easily discoverable. CREEK GOVERNMENT STIFFENING/ BULGARIAN MINISTER ANNOYED. Received August 24. 6.40 p.m. Athens, August 23. The Government lias announced that the Bulgarians shall not oecuDy Seres, Drama, or Kavella. Received August 24, 0.40 p.m. Rome, August 23. The Bulgarian Minister at Athens has threatened to leave owing to antiBulgarian demonstrations.

CREEKS TAKING A HAND. RESERVISTS ARRIVING. Salonika, August 23. The Serbians are standing fast against violent Bulgarian attacks between Ostrovo and Petrsko. The fighting on the west wing is not important compared with the fact that the Serbians are progressing in the Moglena mountains north of Ostrovo, where they are threatening an invasion of the Cerena Valley. The French hold the villages seized on the Belassitza slopes. The advancing Bulgarians surrounded the Greek guard at Demirhissar. One Greek escaped and warned the Seres garrison, where the commandant of the demobilised 6th Division called on the local reservists and defended the town. A committee has been formed at Salonika to enrol and arm recruits. Already j two hundred have offered to serve in the j defence of Sores. The Allies never ini tended operations further east than the 'Struma. The Bulgarians do not possess sufficient force to achieve a real mili'tary purpose anywhere. A detachment [of Albanians has arrived wearing the 'national dress.