THE ARMISTICE TERMINATED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12970, 31 January 1913, Page 5

THE ARMISTICE TERMINATED.

(Received Jnn. 31, 10.45 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 30. Tho Allies terminate the armistice from 7 o'clock tins evening. LONDON, Jan. 30. M. Daneff stated that the -Turkish proposals were not acceptable. Adrianople and the Island must be ceded. The Chronicle's Constantinople correspondent states it is estimated that-*2O per cent, of the army is favorable to the new Government. Thousands of transport animals at Chataldja are dead or ill. The roads, owing to rain, have become impaisable. Reuter states tliat when the ,bearer of the Porte's reply reached the Austrian Embassy he was overtaken 'by a messenger and! instructed to delay pre^ sent action because of verbal modifications necessary owing to the rupture m the London negotiations. - Tlie reply was presented afterwards and consented to the dismantling of Adrianople. It asked the Powets to decide the disposal of territory on the right bank of vMaritxa and to settle the form of administration m the islands.

LONDON, January 25. Th© Turkish cruiser Hamidieh, while lying off the Syrian coast, saw a warship approaching her, probably the German cruiser Breslau. When tlie Ottomans caught sight of the stranger they evidiently thought she was a Greek * craft, and cut away their anchors and bolted. Next evening the Hamidieh sighted a couple of destroyers, and again sliowed a clean pair of heels, making for Port Said. A deputation of Albanians is visiting the European capitals, urging that Albania shall be reserved for the Albanians, and that the country shall not be mutilated "like a body m an anatomical theatre." The Ottoman authorities admit that m tihe recent naval engagements two warships were badly knocked about, and 35 men killed and 164 wounded. The new Gernian Army Bill provides for the training of a larger force and a. stricter universal service. • The St. Petersburg press ig urging Russia not to allow Germans to become predominant m the Slav States, and suggests the foundation of a financial enterprise for the promotion/ of commercial and agricultural development m Bulgaria. . The Vienna Zeit states that the experiments made with '> the army's new 12-inch mortars have been entirely satisfactory. In order to test the new arm thoroughly 150 rounds were fired. Each shell weighed 13001 b, and was directed at a concrete target 9000 yards distant. Blocks of cement and granite 100 metres thick itere totally destroyed, and steel armor.!-.. plating -six' Snohes through was perforated. 1 '■ - ..-