BULGARIAN AMD ROUMANIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15233, 21 February 1913, Page 7

BULGARIAN AMD ROUMANIA.

PROPOSED ARBITRATION. • . ;(Ecceived February 20, U. 5 p.m.) .".-. St. Peteesbubg, February 20. It is reported that Bulgaria and Roumania are . willing that Italy and Russia shall arbitrate regarding their differences? - under Britain's auspices. ; • ; * ' •

POPUL AT I 0 P3 OF ALBANIA. St. Petersburg,, February 19.

According to Russian statistics, the number of real Albanians does not exceed half a million. Thoy are located westward of the Black Drin River, and are principally Slavs who have been subjected to and who retail the religious customs of the Slavs. .

TUEKEY'S HOPEBBBS WAR. Mr. Bennet Burleigh, war correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, recently wrote:-—-"For the Turk the war is a hopeless on©. Any attempt to stop forward for her will remit >in increased: retrograde movement. Neither tho schemers of finance nor politics -will enable her to recover an inch of lost territory, but rather to render her second condition -worse than the first Again, I warn you that Servia and Bulgaria, with Montonegro, will be more than a match for even the 700,000 or 800,000 men Austria thinks > she • Ran pour across the Danube. And Italy had best •Bake heed to herself, lest, in her desire to possess territory in Albania, sho fall out with her .own people."