THE BALKAN WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 66, 26 March 1913, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR.

NO SIGHT OF THE END.

THE ALBANIAN BOUNDARIES

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association., London March 2-1. The Powers have agreed to the northern and north-eastern boundaries of Albania. The southern limits are unsettled. THE ADRIANOPLE BOMBARDMENT. Sofia, March 25. Adrianople was bom bar led from all sides yesterday. A decisive effort is being made to reduce the city immediately. Cettinjo, March 25, Djavid Pasha and fifteen thousand Turks suronded the Servians at Skumb river. MONTENEGRO’S BOS ETIO N T .

Vienna, March 25

• Messages from Cettinje depict the situation of Montenegro and the dyInasty as gloomy. Fee’ing is embittered Giving to the tremendous resiiltuss sacrifice of me population. 'I bo Kn.g is reproached :or irrationally maintaining the war, whUj the land is impoverished t.nd fields in-cultivated. Fifteen thousand in m have been .ost through death Bon wounds.

THE MASSACRES EX AG Oh RATED

London, Mai eh 25

Tim Times’ Constant inrple to: respondent states that caiCul enquiry reveals that the imssicres of iVl.iCems in Macedonia during ti e var vote greatly exaggerated. Many were shot aftlr a drumhead "oiirtn inlial. The Christian non-ro.noatants in Cci tral Macedonia suffered more than the Moslems.

AN INDEPENDENT ALBANIA IMPOSSIBLE.

Athens, March 25. Essad Pasha, interviewed, said an independent Albania was impossible. Uncivilised people like the Albanians were unable to exist, surrounded as they were by nations advanced in civilisation and military arts, EASTWARD OF ADRIANOPLE. Sofia, March 25. Twelve guns and 300 Turks were captured eastward of Adrianople.

WEATHERING THE STORM.

BRITAIN’S MOUTHPIECE: . “IT IS TIME WAR SHOULD END.” - (Received 10.15 a.m.) London, March 25. Sir- Edward Grey, in the House of Commons, referring to the localisation of the war, said the Powers were in agreement regarding Albania. There was every prospect, that the storm would be altogether weathered, and there ought, therefore, to be a withdrawal as soon as possible from Albania. If bloodshed accompanying the seige of Skutari were renewed, it would involve a useless criminal amount of suffering, and would forfeit all sympathy. Mr Bonar Law (Leader of the Opposition) said he was pleased at the localisation, and he expressed the hope that the war would soon terminate, and that Turkey would have an existence compatible with reasonable strength and credit. Mr Asquith paid a tribute to the Powers’ patience and self-sacrifice. A continuance of the war from the stanp-point of either side would he purposeless. He added: “Speaking as Britain’s mouthpiece, I say that now is the time this devastating war should end.”