THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1919, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

A CHANGE LN BOUNDARIES. STEPS TOWARDS SETTLEMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Paris, Oct. 24. Important steps towards the stabilisation of the situation in the Near East have been taken by the Supreme Council which has refused Roumania's demand for both banks of the Maros as far as the Theiss and the control of the AradTemesvar railway. Roumania has been informed that the settlement by which Roumania gets the Transylvanian province of 120,000 square kilometres rich in minerals is irrevocable. The Council has settled the vexed question of the Banat by dividing it between Roumania and Serbia. The latter gets most of the district of Torontal and two-thirds of the waterways of the Banat. Roumania receives the district of Temes and Grosseverin with the famous mines and steel works of Resuga Ania.— Reuter.

IRELAND. MARTIAL LAW IN DUBLIN. AUSTRALIAN PADRE'S CASE. By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. London, Oct. 25. Dublin City and County have been placed under martial law. Three judges of the Irish King's Bench refused the Habeas Corpus application in the O'Donnell case. The Chief Justice said the detention was not illegal. Ha was glad O'Donnell would be handed over to his own unit and added that if the officer commanding the Australians considered a court-martial was necessary the military would pay the expenses of witnesses for the defence.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.