THE BALKANS PROBLEM

Southland Times, Issue 17383, 30 June 1913, Page 5

THE BALKANS PROBLEM

THE dread issue. BULGARIANS THROW AWAY ARMS. (By Talegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright). BELGRADE, June 27. The Skupshtina is sitting with closed doors to decide on war or peace. SALONIKA. June 27. A force of Russian, Greek, and Bulgarian troops lias landed at Mount Attics, where heretical monks occupy the Russian monastery and defy the authority of the church. Tho Bulgarians, while retreating from Zletova, threw away their arms and knapsacks. Tho Servians pursued them toward Koch ana. Sandiansky. a Bulgarian band leader, is going to Yallona to organise Albanian bands to operate in Epirus. A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. LONDON, June 2S. Received June 29, 5.5 p.m. The Daily Telegraph Bucharest correspondent states that Rournania has informed Bulgaria that in the event of war, the Servian and Roumanian troops will cross the Danube. It is believed that France or Russia instigated the threat as a warning to Bulgaria not to defy United Europe. THE TENSION LESS ACUTE. BELGRADE, June 2S. The Skupstchina adjourned until Monday. VIENNA, June 28. Received June 29, 5.5 p.m. Count Stuergkh (Prime Minister) speaking in the Reichsrath, stated that the Balkan tension was acute, and that h© w'a-s hopeful of a pacific settlement. BULGARIA PUTS FORWARD A CLAIM. SOFIA. June 28* Received June 29, 5.5 p.m. A Bulgarian memorandum to Russia claimed tho contest zone on ethnological grounds. If Russia wete not disposed to assign the whole, Bulgaria suggests a plebiscite of the disputed districts. , The memorandum recalls that Alexander the Second, under the San Stefano Treaty, declared Macedonia, to bo Bulgarian soil.