THE BALKAN STATES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16807, 17 March 1915, Page 7

THE BALKAN STATES.

A TURKISH OFFER

CONCESSIONS TO BULGARIA

“ Times ” and Sydney “ Sun ” Serviotffl. LONDON, Match 15. Sofia reports that Turkey is offering Bulgaria territorial concessions. The Greek Chamber of Deputies has adjourned for a month. It is believed that it will then be dissolved.

ITALY'S SITUATION.

PUBLIC OPINION DIVIDED. LONDON, Starch 35

Tho Romo correspondent of “ The Times ” says that tho , situation is desperately complicated and public opinion is divided, the blessings of peace being weighed pgainst the laurels and spoils of war. Germany ha® made a, deep impression on the Italian mind, a seller agents have incessantly advertised German organisation, thoroughness, inventiveness and persistence, and this has given rise to an almost superstitious belief and exaggerated respect'for German prowess.

SPREADING DISEASE.

AUSTRIAN METHOD OF WARFARE.

Times ” ami Sydney “Sun” Service*. CETTINJE, March .15.

j Austria has driven out ten thousand old men, women and / ciiildren from Bosnia and Herzegovina into 3fonte-

negro. Many are suffering from horrible diseases, and it is presumed that the Austrian desire is to introduce into 3lontonegro virulent diseases.

EPIDEMIC IN SERVIA.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ATHENS, March 15. ■An epidemic of typhus broke out in Servia after the expulsion of Austrians. 31any doctors succumbed, including Americans.

RIOT AT PRAGUE 4

EMPEROR’S PORTRAIT HISSED. BERNE, March 15. A riot occurred in a picture theatre at Prague (Austria) as tho result of a section of tho audience hissing the Emperor Francis Josef's portrait. Two persons were killed and- many injured.