BALKAN PROBLEMS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 699, 8 May 1916, Page 7

BALKAN PROBLEMS.

DIVIDING THE SPOILS. A PREMATURE SETTLEMENT. (Received May 8. 8 a.m.) LONDON. May 7. ! The Paris newspaper "Le Temps" says that Bulgaria and Austria have divided Serbia between them. The i new frontier follows the Morava j River. Bulgaria gets 20.(K)fl square miles, ami Austria :W.7f>o square i miles. NEW WAR PREDICTED. BULGARIA THREATENS RUMANIA. LONDON, May l>. The Bucharest correspondent of tile "New York World" says the hasty preparations on both sides of the Danube furnish evidence that a new war is coming in the Balkans in the early spring. Bulgaria has conkentrated 175,0(10 troops, and Germany 35,000,'0n the Rumanian frontier. , Well-informed circles arc certain lthat Bulgaria will soon march into the Dobrudja, The Bulgarians dejinand that they shall fight or return i to their homes. I'l'lic Dobrudja is (lie large- district <>( Kastrrn l<uinau!a stretching from the Bui Kiirimi frontier to the dc-Itsi of the Danube ■ami from tliiit river, in its northward ! coins.- through Rumania, to tin- Black Sen ! coast. | AUSTRO-BULGARIAN ENMITY. AN EIGHT HOURS' FIGHT. LONDON. May <>. Reports from Athens state that there is intense animosity between i the Bulgarian and Austrian troops. They fought for eight hours, north of Onclove station, till German forces intervened and separated ithem. AUSTRIAN AIR RAID. j ITALIAN PORT BOMBED. HOME, May 6. j Five Austrian aeroplanes dropped bombs on Brindisi. The buildings !struck included hospitals, in which 'four patients were killed by bombs.