THE BALKANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 31, 30 September 1912, Page 6

THE BALKANS.

THE FEELING IN BELGRADE. ; REPRISALS;

(By Electric Telegraph.'—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) ■ ' (Iteceived 8.55 a.iri.) Vienna, September 29. Herr Berchtold delivered ah optimistic speech to the Austrian delegation 'Concerning the-outlook in the Balkans. On the other hand, the newspaper advices'front there show that Turkey's InWdified plan of. manoeuvres has not K the Bulgarians. Feeling in ißielgr'ade is bellicose. " "The Servian Government lias detain ed at Belgrade eighteen-carloads of. 'Turkish atomUhitioh by way of repris-. al fof a similar actioiv towards Servian in transit from Salonika "tO''UsMb, the Porte alleging Ser■via's Utisatisfactory attitude as the reaeoh.

<$?•; Constantinople, September 29. ■Tito Servian Minister, inquiring re the detention of the Servian ammunition, assured .the Porte that Servia's policy .was unchanged and that she defeed £ eohlinlaiice of friendly relations. ;,

The Porte asked for a Written statement of these asedrances and "Was referred to Belgrade. v The '£brte lias sent a protest to Montenegro narrating that sixty Montenegrins attacked an ammunition col:^mn; On the shores of "Lake Skutari, killing, six Turkisb soldiers and two &atm"(Jfi.i- ,J v=The latter'© bodies were ''mutilated. Eighteen soldiers and nine 'boatmen were ciptixred'and stripped, and then sent to Skutari. ■ ; OPiiSiTidNs At adrianople. Aejropl.ane practiqe has been commenced and a wireless equipment arrangedi at Adrianople. •

' THE POWERS' REQUEST

; Cettinge, September 29. In, response to representation© by the Powers- the Montenegrin Governirien't "has promised to do its utmost to maintain peace adding that its preservation 'depends to a large degree on: theForte'sattitude., ; :'