DIVIDING THE SPOILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15374, 8 August 1913, Page 7

DIVIDING THE SPOILS.

HIGH-HANDED ROUMANIA. AGREEMENT REACHED. PROTEST BY BULGARIA. APPEAL TO THE POWERS. STORIES OF ATROCITIES. TORTURE AND MUTILATION. By Telegraph—Pres3 Association— Copyright. London, August 6. The congress at Bucharest has come to an agreement, and the terms of peace will be signed to-morrow. The frontier agreement gives to Bulgaria Strumnitza, Xanthi and Lagos. The Grseco-Bulgarian iEgean littoral is separated by the Mesta River. v The conference has expressed the hope that the Powers will strictly enforce, the Treaty of London with regard to Turkey. Bulgaria is entering a protest, and is appealing to the Powers to modify the agreement in her favour, having signed it only in deference to the Powers' wishes. Roumania insists on Greece relinquishing Kavala and some of its hinterland, and on Servia relinquishing Radovista, Kotchana, and Strumnitza. Austria and Russia Angry. Russian and Austrian patience is almost exhausted, whilst "dissensions are believed to have arisen between M. Venezelos (Premier of Greece) and King Constantine. Advices from Bucharest state that Russia has informed the Roumanian Government that she will join Austria in opposing Servian retention of Radovista, Kotchana and Strumnitza.

1 M. Toncheff, the chief Bulgarian delegate, in an interview yesterday, stated' that Bulgaria would yield Kavala under protest in consideration of the point being finally seti tied, by an international conference. i The Turkish prisoners in Bulgaria aggregate 100,000 men. Outrages by Turks and Greeks. A report from the Assistant Bishop of'Rodosto, a member of the commission of inquiry into the Turkish atrocities during the advance on Adrianople, alleges that the troop? pillaged and burned Christian houses and shot the fleeing inhabitants. Many girls burned themselves in the houses to avoid capture. The Balkans correspondent of the Times says that the Greeks in s the Samakov, Dubnitza, and Radomir districts have massacred the Bulgarian inhabitants wholesale. Many of these people were tortured and mutilated.