THE BALKANS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 6 September 1915, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

SITUATION GENERALLY FAVOR-

ABLE TO ALLIES

SERBIA'S REPLY HANDED TO

ENTENTE

GERMAN DOUBLE-DEALING

NISH, Sept. 5. A semi-official reply to the Entente will be drafted shortly and presented to Rome. The tone of the Balkans is generally favorable to the Allies, and developments are awaited. It is believed that M. Radoslavoff (Prime Minister) no longer possesses a majority. Serbia has handed her reply to the Entente.

LONDON, Sept. 5. Reuter reports that Roumania gave permission for the transit of twenty trucks of German hospital material to Turkey. Officials found six waggons full of explosives and poison gas materials, disguised as surgical lint. The whole was confiscated.

PARIS, Sept. 5. The Echo de Paris says that M Malmoff, chief of the Bulgarian democratic party, in an, interview at Salonika, stated that Germany and Austria, while proposing to Bulgaria the partition of Serbia, simultaneously offered to Roumania the dismemberment of Bulgaria.