The Balkans.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 72, 16 March 1914, Page 5

The Balkans.

"ONLY THE FJRST ACT."

THE DANGER NOT OVER.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright} [United Press Association.] (Received 9.25 a.m.)

London, March 15

At Budapest. Count Witte, in an interview with the newspaper Azest, says: "The Balkan affair is not disposed of. Only the first act has been played. The entracte may last years or months. The danger point is Roumania and Austria."

ANTI-CRSEK boycott

(Received 9.25 a.m.) Constantinople, March 15.

The spread of the anti-Greek boycott, especially in Smyrna, is causing anxiety.

The Turko-Servian peace treaty has been signed.

A PESSIMISTIC OUTLOOK.

Vienna, March 14

In the Lower House of the Reichrath the Minister for Defence, in supporting an increase of recruits, said nobody could believe we may hope long for peace or that the Balkans {rill be settled in such a way as to preclude sudden complications.

FURTHER ALBANIAN DISORDER.

Athens, March 14. Grave disorders are occurring near Karitza.

Albanians are attacking and outraging Christian women." Inter-tribal fighting continues. Essad's partisans in some localities refuse to recognise Albanian authority.

A STABBING INCIDENT.

Constantinople, March 15

Advices from Phillipolis state that Sakik Bey, a Turkish Liberal, was attacked in the street mid stabbed with a knife in the left side, supposedly by a Young Turk emissary, who escaped. ' ,