THE BALKANS.

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

THE BALKANS.

CRAECO-BULGARIAN COMMISSION.

FRONTIER QUESTION. (■Received May 12, 8.35 a.m.) fr SALONIKA, May 11. The Gracco-'Bulgarian Commission has failed to agree as to frontiers. NEW MONTENEGRIN CABINET. STATEMENT BY KING NICHOLAS (Received May 12, 8.35 a,m.) CETTINJE, May 11. General Vukotich has formed a Cabinet.

King Nicholas summoned the whole of the members of the Skuptschina to the Palace, whore he declared that Russia, Servia, and Greece had counselled Montenegro's submission to Europe. He added that Russia would continue to protect Montenegro.

ALLIES' DEMAND. AN INDEMNITY OF £65,000,000. (R.eceived May 12, 8.35 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, May 11. The Alii s demand an indemnity of £65,000,000. A TERRIBLE STORY. A HORRIBLE SPECTACLE. (Received Last ewght, 11.30 o'clock.) LONDON, May 12. The Daily Chronicle, in a® interview with an English lady who was working with the Red Crescent Mission at Sofia, got a tsrrible account of the treatment of the Turkish sick and woundell. Th?y were left foodless, fire less, waterless and shelterless. They fed themselves by gnawing bark. Many died before tho American missionaries provided tliein with a little soup. There was the horrible spectacle of starving men trampling on one another to secure a share.

BULGARIA AND SERVIA

OPEN CONFLICT PROBABLE

LARGE ARMIES FACING EACH OTHER.

(Received Last Night. 10.30 o'cloek.) SALONIKA, May 12.

It is expected that Russian- arbitration will prevent a Servian and Bulgarian conflict, but large armies are facing each other in Southern Macedonia.

The Servians are greatly superior in numbers.

The Bulgarians are bringing up their ChataMeja troops spc-eclily.

TERRIBLE TRATN COLLISION. 100 KILLED, *X)' INJURED. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) SALONIKA, May 12. Two Bulgarian military trains collided between Drama and Buk at night. One hundnsd wt?re kiille-d and three hundred injured. FIGHTING CEASES. GREEK AND BULGAR. TROOPS DISBANDED. (Rceived Last Nierht. 11.35 o'clock.) SALONIKA, May 12. The .fighting between Greeks and Bulgarians at Angliista Leftera ceased on Saturday by mutual consent. The Greoks had sixty casualties, and the Bulgarians more, in addition to a number of prisoners. Essad Pasha, at Tirana, disbanded sixteen thousand Redifs, but retains a few thousand -uzams.