THE BALKANS WAR.

Mataura Ensign, 30 November 1912, Page 6

THE BALKANS WAR.

ADRIANOPLE BOMBARDED. FOREIGN CONSULS' PROTEST. BT ELECTRIC TELEGBAPH. —COPYBIGHT. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 29. The first wireless message from Adrianople for 15 days contained a protest by the foreign Consuls against the Bulgarians bombarding the town in addition to the fortifications, thus killing women and children. DURAZZO FALLS. LONDON, Nov. 28. A wireless message from Durazzo (the Albanian seaport on the Adriatic) states j that the Servians have occupied tliei town.

INDEPENDENT ALBANIA. VIENNA, Nov. 29. An assembly of Albanian delegates proclaimed the independence and neuI trality of Albania and constituted a provisional Government at Valona. They will shortly send a Commission to ask the Powers to recognise their action. AUSTRIA'S PREPARATIONS. VIENNA, Nov. 21). In the Roirlistratli the Premier (Count Stuergkh) announced Bills relating to the supply of horses and transport, and support for the dependents of soldiers in the event of Mobilisation. He asked the Parlaimentary leaders to- facilitate the speedy passage of the Bills. This has aroused the impression iJhat the situation is still critical. Austria is moving the Slav battalions to the north and replacing them with German Magyar troops in the southern garrisons. A similar arrangement was made in 1908. RUSSIAN patriots: ST. PETERSBURG, Nor.'i!). M. Rodzianxo, the President, in inaugurating the Duma, said that a2 Russians were ready to give their lives should Fate decide that tho clouds which had gathered in the political sky uorej to break into thunder and lightning. I