BALKAN PEACE NOT YET ENSURED

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLI, Issue 5968, 6 June 1913, Page 5

BALKAN PEACE NOT YET ENSURED

.^ „ Servia Fears Austna Will Assist Bulgaria in Event

of Conflict

* BRITAIN'S REWARD

i i l'i..T I'rt-ss Association —C'o}>\ rig-ht.i ; London, June i. | Correspondents in Belgrade j emphasise Servian anxiety over I Austria's attitude.

i Though Servia and Greece ! have arranged an alliance, it -is feared that in the event of : a eontlict Ausuia will throw , her sword on the side of Bid- : garia. | \)l\ Dajieft (President of the : Bulgarian 'Parliaineni), in an • uiterview with the N jue l^reie , I'resse. stated that the Serbo- . Htdyarian treaty contained the • final conditions of both cotinI ti-ies^ Jf vServia had presented her territorial claims earlier, ! Uulgariii would have dispensed with her assistance, preterrine; t<.» abandon Adrianople rather than Macedonia.

The London Telegraph's correspondent at Salonika staves that four hours' ride from Salonika the Greek left merges into the Servian riyht.

The soldiers of both armies are cordially fraternising, while a few hundred yards away the .Bulgarians keep wary watch, and"" occasionally shout taunts 'to the opposing troops.

The Bulgarians attacked the Servian, position near Istib. The Servians withdrew with considerable loss, and a Bulgarian force occupied the position.

The Greek and Bulgarian Governments have signed an agreement establishing a neutral zone between their respective armies, pending the delimitation of the frontiers.

It is semi-officially stated that the Cabinet tendered its resignation on Saturday, and ihat Dr. DanefT (President of the Bulgarian House of Parliament) will form a Ministry.

Berlin, June

J)r. Rohenbach, an authority on near Eastern questions, asserts that Hakki Pasha recently concluded an agreement with i>iitain securing Britain's support in the peace negotiations respecting the Aegean Islands, and the. Albanian Suzerainty, for which Turkey trots Britain's wishes carried out regarding the .laydad railway, the Persian Gulf, ixowoit, and the Persian boundary questions, and is granted special privileges in Southern Arabia.