THE BALKAN WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 March 1913, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR.

SERVIANS DISEMBARKED. FROM GREEK TRANSPORTS. (Received this Morning 12.20 o'clock) VIENNA, March 12. Twenty-one Greek transports disembarked n number of Servians at Sangiovanni.

AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. RELATIONS UNAFFECTED. (Received this Morning 12.20 o'clock) ST. PETERSBURG, March 12. An identical Note states that the exchange of letters between the Czar jand the Emperor Francis Joseph, proof that the .'Balkan events did not effect the -friendly (relations of Austria and Russia. Explanations exchanged between the two Governments show that Austria did not cherish any aggression against her Southern neighbours. CONDITIONS OF MEDITATION. AWAITING SERVIA'-S REPLY. (Received March 12, 10 a.m.)) SOFIA, March, 11. The newspaper Mir states that the Government is awaiting Servia's re .ply 'before informing the Powers 0 s " the Allies' condition's for mediation. INDEMNITY INSISTED ON. (Received I 'March 12, 2.15 p.m.) SOFIA, March 11. ■The Allies' reply to the Powers will be given to-morrow. The newspaper Misstates that the allies have Agreed to mediation, but insist on an indemnity.

CEX SO®SHIP OF TURKISH . NEWSPAPERS. (Received March 12, 10 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, March 11. The military authorities .have forbidden the newspapers to mention rumours cf the position of the Ministry or army changes. DROWNING ACCIDENT ON" LAKE SKUTARI. (Received March 12, 10a.m.) OETTIN'J.TS, March 11. Sixty-eight Montenegrin women and girls, while crossing Lake Skutari in a boat, capsized in a storm, and al] were .drowned. UULGAR AND GREEK. FIG HTING AT NIG RITA. (Received this Morning 12.20 o'clock) SALONIKA, March 12. The Bulgarians retreated from Nigrita, a village in. Southern Macedonia, which they bombarded. Four companies of Greeks pursued them, and burned the 'bridges across tli© river. The Bulgarians hoisted the white flag, And 120 were captured. The Greeks lost fifteen killed and forty wounded.

MEDIATION CONFERENCE (Received this Morning 12.20 o'clock) VIENNA, March 12. JRioumania and Bulgaria have presented to M. SazonofF, a memorandum dealing with the dispute for submission to the Ambassadors' Mediation = Conference.

AUSTRIA'S DEMANDS

(Received this Morning 12.20 o'clock) BELGRADE, March 12. The newspapers state that Austrian Ministers demanded the recall of Servian troops proceeding to Sk'itaru, because the t&wn is the designed capital of Albania. M. Passitch replied that Sei'via is compelled to assist her allies without consideration of what is to become of Skutari.