THE BALKANS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10700, 22 August 1912, Page 5

THE BALKANS

Fj&HTING CONTINUES A SKBIOCi CTtWHCN. (Received Last- Night SJ.3O o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, August 20. The army corps are concentrated at Kuprili. Rebels arriving at Kuprili will be disarmed and returned to their homes.

The army will attack them if they resist.

Mussulmen at Kuprili have broach-

Ed the magazines and seized -arms tc repel the entry, of Albanians. Further fighting hay taken place at Benna. The entire Christian population have revolted and joine d the Montenegrins, who silenced the Turkish blockhouse. Four Turks were killed.

Four blockhouses at Mukra were beseiged by Montenegrins who captured fifty-four soldiers. Unsatisfactory frontier delimitation is frequently the cause* of conflicts'. - our battalions from Ifick have been despatched from the ireservists division to Mictrovisa where they will be mobilised.

GERMAN OPINION

POSSIBILITY OF WAR,

(Received Last Night D.30 o'clock.)

BERLIN", August 20

The Cologne Gazette blarney Montenegro for the friction with Turkey, and states that the latter may possibly declare war against Montenegro as a way out of a difficult internal situation. Tlie Powers are urged not to permit Montenegro to create trouble. • The Porte has invited the Montenegrins to withdraw the troops from Berana. Tho Pqwers have made ■similar representations.

THE USIvUB SETTLEMENT,

(Received Last Night 9.-30 o'clock.)

CETTINJE, August 20. The nature of the Uskub settlement has not .been revealed.

It is belteved that tho Albanians recognising the Government's firmness have considered it prudent to accept.