THE BALKAN WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 July 1913, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR.

CABLE NEWS

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CONDITIONS OF PEACE. BULGARIA HUMILIATED. (.Received Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.) ATHENS, July 16. Owing to the- Bulgarians unscrupulous conduct throughout the present struggle, the Greek and Servian Governments have resolved to inform Russia of their willingness to cease hostilities after the signature of peace on the battlefield, following conditions based on a definite peace treaty, namely, that Btilgana is to abandon all claims to the territories occupied by the Allies, pay the costs of the new war, furnish guarantees for the life and property of the Greeks in Thrace (especially religious and educational freedom'., and undertake demobilisation within a fixed period. The Bulgarians fired the Greek town of Doxato, and massacred six hundred inhabitants, mostly women and children. The Bulgarians have abandoned the defiles of Kresna, and are retreating towards Dubnitzra, while the Greeks and Servians are pursuing them. ADVANCE OF ROUMANIANS. BULGARIAN MTMSTRY RESIGNS. (Received Last Nieht, 10.30 o'clock.) SOFIA, July 16. The Roumanians have advanced, severing rail wing communication at Varna. Thev have occupied Rakovo. The Daneff' Ministry has now resigned, on the ground that Roumania exceeded the agreed line from Turtukalto Baltchek. It claims that large tracts were left at the backs of Varda in favour of Greece and Servia, with the whole of the Western Macedonia \ PROPOSED CONCESSIONS. (Received Last Night. 10.45 o'clock.) BEULIN, July 16. Advices from Belgrade state that two Bulgarian delegates have conferred with M. Pasics regarding the Bulgarians' proposed concessions in return for an armistice and negotiations for peace. GREEK AND SERVIAN DECISION DELAY MAY MEAN A MARCH ON SOFIA. (Received July 16, 8.5 a.m.) ATHENS, July 15. It is stated that Servia and Greece will shortly ask the Powers to communicate to Bulgaria the preliminary terms of peace, which must ibe signed on the battlefield. ' It is hinted that the conditions will not be final if negotiations are prolonged, in which oa.se the Servians and Greeks will march on Sofia. (Received July 16, 8.10 a.-n!) ' SALONIKA, July 15. ; M. Venezelos, the Greek Premier, •has gone to Nish to confer with M,, Pasics, the Servian Premier, regarding the Ser.bs-Greek terms of peace. QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. " SIR E. GREY'S REPLY. (Received July 16, 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. In the House of Commons,. Sir Ed; ward Grey, Secretary of State Foreign Affairs, replying to a suggestion by Mr Mason (Unionist) that the Powers should impose an armistice on the Balkan States, remarked that, in view of the passions that had accompanied the struggle and the appalling risks incurred by the combatants, mere words from vitside Powers would not be likely tv affect the situation. Bulgaria had appealed to Russia to secure a cessation of hostilities. Servia and Greece had agreed upon conditions which they would insist that Bulgaria must accept before a cessation of hoStili ties. It was vitally important that the powers should continue to mutually consult. There was, added Sir Edward, every reason to believe that matters would be brought to a satisfactory temination.

WHO SET FIRE TO SERES? (Received July 16, 8 a.m.) SOFIA, July 15. The Government blames Greek irregulars for setting fire to the town of Seres, and adds tlliat while the Bulgarian troops were endeavouring to etinguish the flames the irregulars massacred two hundred of the Bulgarian population, including women, children, old men, wounded and sick soldiers, and civil officials. BULGARIAN WAR VESSELS DISARMED. (SYDNEY "SUN" SPECIAL.) (Received Jaily 16, 8 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, July 15. Bulgarian war vessels which took refuge at Sebastapol have been disarmed. RUSSIA'S RELUCTANCE. (Received July 16, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 15. Renter's Agency states that Russia does not desire to singly settle the Balkans trouble. She considers all the Powers should determine the method of securing a cessation of hostilities. BELGRADE, July 15. Servia is willing to sign peace preliminaries, and only awaits the arrival of Bulgaria's plenipotentiaries.