ALLIES AT WAR

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8482, 17 July 1913, Page 7

ALLIES AT WAR

SERBO-GREEK OFFER WHAT THEY ARE WILLING- TO DO. By Te’exraph—-Press Association—-Copyright (Received July 16, 10.40 p.m.) ATHENS, July 16. Owing to the Bulgarians’ unscrupulous conduct throughout the present struggle, the Greek and Servian Governments have resolved to inform Russia of their willingness to cease hostilities after the signature of peace on the battlefield on the following conditions, based on a definite Peace Treaty, namely:—Bulgaria to abandon all her claims to the territories occupied by the Allies, to pay the costs of the new war, and to furnish guarantees that {ho life, property, and rights of Greeks in Thrace will ho respected, especially from the point of view of religious and educational freedom. The Bulgarins must also undertake demobilisation within a fixed period. • MORE MASSACRES.

Bulgarians fired on tho Greek town of Doxato and massacred sis hundred inhabitants, mostly women and children.

The Bulgarians abandoned the defiles at Kresna, retreating towards Dubnitza, whither tho Greeks atb d Servians are pursuing them. ROUMANIANS ADVANCE. SOFIA, July 16. The Roumanians advanced, severing the railway communication with Varna. They have occupied Rakovo. The Daneff Ministry has now resigned on the ground that Ronmania has exceeded the agreed line from Turtnkao to Baltchik, and claim large tracts on the left bank of the Vania in favour of Greece and Servia, with the whole of western Macedonia. BULGARS AND SERBS CONFER. BERLIN, July 16. Advices from Belgrade state that two Bulgarian delegates have conferred with M. Basics regarding Bulgaria’s proposed concessions in return for an armistice and negotiations for peace. TERMS OP PEACE. DECISION OF SERVIA AND GREECE. ATHENS, July 15. It is stated that Servia and Greece will shortly ask the Powers to communicate with Bulgaria the preliminary terms of peace, which must be signed on the battlefield. It is hinted that the conditions will not be final if negotiations are prolonged, in which case the Servians and Greeks will march on Sofia. SALONOIA, July 16. M. Venezelos, tho Greek Premier, has gone to Nish to confer with M. Basics, the Servian Premier, regarding the Serbo-Greek terms of peace. IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. STATEMENT BY SIR EDWARD . GREY. LONDON, July 15. In the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to a suggestion by Mr Mason (Unionist) that tho Powers should impose an armistice on tho Balkan States, remarked that, in view of the passions that had accom-

panied the struggle and the appalling risks incurred by the combatants, mere words from outside Powers would not be likely to affect the situation. Bulgaria had appealed to Russia to secure a cessation of hostilities. Servia and Greece had agreed upon conditions which they would insist that Bulgaria must accept before a cessation of hostilities. It was vitally important that the Powers should continue to mutually consult. . There was, added Sir Edward, every reason to believe that matters would’be brought to a satisfactory termination, BURNING OF SERBS. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? SOFIA, July 15. The Government blames Greek irregulars for setting fire to the town of Seres, and adds that while the Bulgarian troops were endeavouring to extinguish the flames the irregulars massacred two hundred of the Bulgarian population, including women, children, old men, wounded and sick soldiers, and civil officials. BULGARIAN WARSHIPS DISARMED. (Sydney "Sun" Special Gable.) ■ ST. PETERSBURG, July 15, Bulgarian war vessels which took refuge at Sebastopol have been disarmed. RUSSIA’S POSITION. SERYIA READY TO SIGN PEACE PRELIMINARIES. LONDON, July 15. Reuter’s Agency states that Russia does not desire to. singly settle the Balkans trouble. She considers all the Powers should determine the method of securing a cessation of hostilities. BELGRADE, July 15. Servia is willing to sign peace preliminaries', and only awaits the arrival of Bulgaria’s plenipotentiaries. GREEK DRAMA. SALONICA, July 15. After five hours’ fighting tho Greeks