BALKAN WRANGLE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1820, 11 January 1913, Page 5

BALKAN WRANGLE.

WIPING OUT THE TURKS, Press As6n—By Telegraph—Copyright Berlin, Yesterday. Brunau, a German pastor at Salonika, in a letter to the Vossische Zeitung, says thousands of Turkish inhabitants have been massacred. Villages have been burned and untold cruelties committed. It is impossible for the expelled Turks to return as they perish from hunger and cold. London, Yesterday. The Daily Telegraph's Belgrade correspondent states the Government categorically denies the atrocities against the Albanians, and adds that the disarmament of the Uskub Albanians was a necessity owing to the murder of several Christians in the streets. Possibly some Komitadjis wiped off some old score against their one time oppressors.

TURKEY STILL HOPES. Constantinople, Yesterday. Kiamil Pasha, Grand Vizier, sotd Turkey was looking for intervention by the powers. Fresh instructions had been sent to the London delegates in the hope that the peace conference would be reopened. He continued: "England is doing all it can for us, but it is not in the position as formerly to do much.''

SHORT COMMONS. I^-.—'V^l ADRIANOPLE PRIVATIONS. Belgrade, Yesterday. Officers and sol liers are deserting from Adrianople daily. They report that bread has been reduced to less than four ounces daily and that there is no other food.

PEACE CONFERENCE. RESUMPTION DESIRED. AMBASSADORS FRATERNISE. Received 10.35 p. m. London, Yesterday. The French Ambassadors banquet - ted the peace delegates. Sir Edward Grey states that the leading Ambassadors are expected to have an informal exchange of views, thus enabling the conference on be realled. Both sides affirm their unwillingness to be recalled unless the question of Adrianople is first settled.

ROUMANIA'S THREAT. BULGARIA ANNOYED. Sofia, Yesterday. The public are indignant at Roumania's insistent demands at the present stage, but it is generally felt that some cession is preferable to a fresh war.

HOLDING THE LEASH. Vienna, Yesterday. It is that Russia's and Austria's energetic remonstrances induced Roumania to postpone for a day or two her threatened occupation of a portion of the Bulgarians' territory. It is stated that the Russian fleet is watching the Bulgarian coast. A SMALL RENEWAL, Constantinople, Last Night. A slight engagement occurred near Lake Derkof, the Turks repelling the Bulgarians and cutting the telegraph wires.

turkey yielding. ADRIANOPLE CAN GO. BUT NOT AEGEAN ISLANDS. Received' 10.30 p. m. Rome, Yesterday. The newspaper Tribune states that Sir Ewdard Grey proposed that Turkey should cede Ardianople on condition she were granted privileges in regard to the mosques and Crown properties. Reshid Pasha gave Sii Edward G?ey an assurance shut Turkey is no longer uncompromising regarding Adrianople though she must insist upon the retention of the Aegean Islands, dominating, as they do, the Dardanelles and Asiatic coast.