THE BALKANS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15825, 25 July 1913, Page 5

THE BALKANS

THE ALLIES' TERMS,

SEPARATE CONFERENCES,

Press Aaaociition-By Telegraph—Copyright,

SOFIA, July 23, Greece and Servia have agreed to Roumanian proposal to discuss the questions of an armistice and peace at separate conferences. Greece, however, insists on the signing of an armistice simultaneously with the acceptance of the preliminaries of peace,

TENSION RELIEVED, CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK. LONDON, July 24. (Received July 25, at 0.20 a.m.) The tension regarding the Balkans has been somewhat relieved since Bulgaria, Greece, and Servia have agreed to mett at Bucharest and discuss peace preliminaries early next week. TERRIBLE OUTRAGES. WHOLESALE MASSACRES. WOMAN AND CHILD CRUCIFIED. ATHENS, July 24. (Received July 25, at 0.20 a.m.) Commander Cardale, a British naval officer, visited Doxato, where he raw bands of dogs feeding on human xomains.

He counted 600 bodies, mostly those of women and children, lying unburied in the streets, and ho saw 120 massacred women and children in one courtyard, the bodios being unspeakably mutilated. The walls were spattered with blood to a height of six feet. The victims had not been killed at once, but had been slowly done to death by bayonet thrnsta. Commander Cardale was shown a room where a woman and child were crucified on the wall.