BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1917, Page 5

BALKANS.

> FIENDISH AUSTRIANS, SERBIANS DONE TO DEATH. United Service, Received June 25, 7.30 p.m. London, June 24.' Details 'have reached Salonika of the treatment of Serbian prisoners by Aus-tro-Hungary. Twenty-four thousand died of typhoid in two concentration camps, arid- & few thousand remain suffering from tubsrculosis and other diseases. A large number is interned in the third jcatn* at Cachaek, which is a depot for lSbor battalions for the Italian front?. Twenty thousand deaths have occurred ithere during the last six months. Frightfully emaciated prisoners, clad in rags, are seen daily fighting like famished leasts in the refuse heaps for scraps' of ibones. 108 Serbians were'frozen to death' !in a single hut on March'lß; '/The' dßad jahd dying'Were'tlirown intohugegravee land covered with quicklime. - '' fi ' ! J ROUMANIAN-ARMY. ■ I, '■ BEGftGANISED AND BEADY. ' 5 I { London, June 84. The Daily Mail haa received information that'iihe Roumanian anny is a better fighting organisation than -at the period of intervention. It) is equally large, its' Moral; is usshattered, and it* equipment immeasurably superior. The King remains the idol of the troopß. ; • Public opinion at Jassy is optimistic. 1 Although the- Germans expect much benefit from the crops in the occupied districts they are faced with great difficulties with regard to transport. On the other hand they have made substantial progress towards the restoration of tho oil wells which the British destroyed