UNSETTLED BALKANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15503, 9 January 1914, Page 7

UNSETTLED BALKANS.

HE £AN ISLANDS. SETTLEMENT EFFECTED. EX VER BEY'S ACTIVITY. tf A .\Y GENERALS RETIRED. gyT.lwru'b- 1':" .Wh :f.',ion--Copjjight. ißcc.'-i .' < '■ '■•■■> ... 12.5 a.m.) 1." ; on. January 7. The N' eur r'r- '' i 'rosso declares that the Till'!' Alliance has deeded t* l a** l '''!' l li "' "l"' sals °f Sir Edward <•■ -> 'British Foreign Secretary) ei-iv.-niing a settlement of the .+.?•■;"' i»b.nt|s question. The (Y.nMnrv.im'p'e correspondent 0 f the D«i'. N ''"' "i" irts that 40,000 troops haw- '"■'■" concentrated at .\walik, i" AMa " 101 '- suggesting the possibility ol a sudden descent on Mitylenr

HE ALBANIAN THRONE. TURKISH PLOT FAILS. I.nSliON, January 7. \dviccs fri m Vuluna state that an aistrian steamer from Constants , pie yesterday brought 200 Turkish (l/ Jiers anil six officers, who intended to induce the people to proclaim Izzei Pallia (the ex-Turkish War Minister) as Prince, and establish a Provisional Government. With the co-operation of the European Commission, the Dutch gendarmerie arrested all tho spiratorsThe Constantinople correspondent of the Neil' 1 Freie Presse asserts fit Essad Pasha was privy to Izzet Pasha's proclamation, Essad acting in conjunction with the i'oung Turk Committee, which has not abandoned the idea of a Turkish sovereignty in Albania. Izzet Pasha emphatically denies C" whole story. Official Turkish circles deny any knowledge of the proclamation that Izzet Pasha is Prince of Albania. Izzet Pasha retired from the War Office, because he was opposed to the lowering of the age for army promotions to permit of the advancement of young officers trained in Europe.

MONEY FOR SERVIA. FLOTATION IN FRANCE. Paris, January 8. A Servian loan of £10,000,000 at £93 15s was issued about January 3. It had previously been subscribed L- by a group of bankers and financial houses.

THE TURKIBH ARMY.

SWEEPING CHANGES MADE.

Constantinople, January 7.

The new Minister for War (Enver 3ey) has placed 280 generals and colonels on the retired list. A German officer is to succeed Zia Pasha as Assistant Chief of Staff. Other fundamental changes in the army are imminent.

£3,000,000 GREEK LOAN. CHAMBER PASSES BILL. Athens, January 7. The Chamber of Deputies has passed the Bill authorising the raising of a £3,000,000 loan. THE CHILIAN BATTLESHIP, PUMOCR CONTRADICTED. (Received January 8, 6 p.m.) London, January 8. The Chilian Minister denies that his Government has any intention of selling the battleship Almirante Latorre, now being built in an English yard, to a European Power. BULGARIAN POVERTY. THE CRUELTY OF WAR London", January 2. TV, stories of distress in Bulgaria bavo not hiv ; n exaggerated, ravs M. Ma<Laroff (Bulgarian Mini6ter in London). There are, be says, nearly 200.000 refuel who arc praclicaliy homeless and *-i'.hout food or clothing. Eighty per cent, of the destitute are a cultural is and now, with a hard winter and the Woued under enow, they are deprived of the possibility of working. Thousands are dependent on Bulgarian and outside mpp-rt. They include Greeks and Servians.

"hen it. is remembered," he said, that Bulgaria, winch at the best is not * "eh country, has had to go through |*«* wars in 10 months, it is easy to see ft wrious difficulty which is facing the <*>unir T in -l-.ii with tin- present problems of dirt res* and am i. The (JoTranent 1,, v, d-wie it„ best to settle thn re 'ML'ees on new territory, hut it is one, *»«? to take the families and another to Provide h,r t |„. lr want? during the winter, If they can livo until the summer, when ln ey can live until the summer, when Wo can be, pLintcd. tho problem will bo ""Whfied, but ihft task of finding homes or : heni at present is overwhelmingly difficult."