THE WAR IN THE BALKANS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2732, 29 March 1916, Page 5

THE WAR IN THE BALKANS

BULGARIAN MUNITIONS DEPOT BLOWN UP (Rec. March 28, 9.35 p.m.) Salonika, March 27. A large Bulgarian munitions depot in the Middine district has been blown up, many being killed and injured. Five hostile aeroplanes, at dawn, raided Salonika, and cruised for half an hour. Eiahtson civilians wi<re killed, and twenty-one woundsd. Many of the inhabitants, in a name, fled to the country.

TWO OF THE RAIDERS BROUGHT DOWN. (Rec. March 28, 11.45 p.m.) Salonika, March 28. • Two of the raiding aeroplanes were brought down. THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN ASIA MINOR , _ , . Athens, March 27. > It is reported that the Turks nave ordered the evacuation of Koriieh, in Asia Minor. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. .(Rec. March 28, 9.35 p,m.) « Petrograd, March 27. "One of mir submarines, under the fire of the battery at Zunguklak (on the Asia Minor coast of the Black Sea), sank a steamer which was towing a string of coal-laden barges. "Our troops on the coast have dislodged tho Turks, and crossed to the left bank of the Baltatchi Darassi." TURKEY FACING FINANCIAL DISASTER (Rec. March 28,11.45 p.m.) i London, March 28. The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Geneva states that tho Turkish Minister of Finance announces the imminent bankruptcy of the Turkish banks and the total ruin of the Turkish financial and commercial undertakings. Turkey's requests for German financial aid have been ignored.