THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145082, 6 September 1916, Page 3

THE BALKANS.

THE ROUMANIAN ADVANCE FIGHTING IN THE DOBRUDJA. LONDON, Sept, 5. Rome reports that the Roumanians on tho Dobirudja are falling back on the Russians, before the general Rul-gar-German offensive, towards Constanza. i The Dally Mail’s Bucharest oonroepondent states that tho Russians at Dobrudja aro rapidly advancing. Published) in Tho Times. Amsterdam, s©pt. 5. Tho German press are giving prominence to tho Dobrudja campaign, which, it is stated, General Mackensen commands, because it may decide tho Balkan, issue. LONDON, Sogt. 4. A Gennau communique states:— Germans and. Bulgarians have advanced, between tho Danube aud tho Black. Sea. Tho Bulgarian cavalry at icoroar drove hack the Roumanian infantry rn j disorder. ROUMANIAN ADVANCE. CAUSING TERROR IN HUNGARY. (Received September G, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 5. Mr. von Wei gaud reports from Budapest that on Sunday 100,000 refugees from Transylvania were in the country. Columns miles in length were fleeing from tho Roumanians for a distance of 300 kilometres northward from Oraova. Their homos and belongings have boon abandoned, and the aged and sick aro dying on the roads. Babies are earned for burial beyond tho reach of the invaders. A veritable panic is prevailing among all classes. Twenty thousand refugees, principally of tho bettor classes, have already reached Budapest, which is crowded. FEELING IN GREECE. GRADUALLY BECOMING RATIONAL. (Received Sopt. 6, 9.10 ATHENS, Sopt. 5. Mr. Jeffries says the announcement that tho Allies are only acting against Clio Gormans and pro-Germans has more and more tranquilisod fears. Ho opines that Greece will shortly join the Allice. The Opposition, Party is at its last gasp. Complete mobilisation is doubtful; probably a small force will bo organised aud gradually strengthened. Should Bulgaria separately make peace Greek military preparation will be continued against Turkey. . it is reported from Macedonia that tho 6th Division and other Greek forces have obtained freedom of movement and aro concentrating at Soros and Kamila. Tho Buigar offensive appears to have collapsed. The Greek forces at Vodena and Parissa have decided to resist tho Dulgars in any case, and similar feeling is irresistibly spreading through the whole country. ARREST IN GREECE. OF AF AUSTRIAN SPY. (Received September 6, 10 a.ro.) ATHENS. , Sept. 5. Those arrested by the Allies include the Secretary of tho Austrian Legation, who hud motored to Canthawos m order to spy on the Allies’ fleet. British police followed in motors and arrested tho Austrian after a struggle, in which one of his companions was wounded. BULGARIA'S WRONGS. RECITED BY KING FERDINAND. (Received Sopt. C, 9.10 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Sept. 0. King Ferdinand, in a proclamation, recited the chapter of wrongs committed bv Roumanians on Bulgaria, and exhorts the Bplgars to destroy their perfidious neighbour. GOSSIP FROM ROUMANIA. ABOUT BULGARIAN GENERAL'S DEATH. (Received Sopt. 6, 9.10 a-m.) PETROGRAD, Sept. 5. A correspondent states that the Gormans aro reinforcing tho south-eastern Russian front from the French front. Forty thousand Turks have been sent to Lemberg. It is reported from Roumania that tho Chief of the Bulgarian General Staff did not die naturally, Fut was murdered in consequence of his efforts in tho direction of tho withdrawal from German influence of Bulgaria and tho replacement of King Ferdinand by Prince Boris. LOSSES OF THE BULGARIANS. SAID TO BE 10,000. (Received September C, 10 ami.) SALONIKA. Sopt. 5. It is estimated that the Bulgarians, •who are facing tho Serbians, have lost 10,000 men out of 60,000. A BULGARIAN COMMUNIQUE. (Received September 6, 11.40 a.m.) SOFIA, Sopt, 5. Official: —Our armies on the 2nd crossed the entire Dobrudja . frontier, driving back an advanced Roumanian detachment, and occupied Kurtbunar, after heavy fighting, The forward inarch is proceeding on tho whole line. MESSAGE FROM M. BRATTANU. LONDON, Sopt. 4. M. Bratianu telegraphed:to.Hr. Asquith that; his message had profoundly stirred all Roumanians, who.wore now; closely, united around their "beloved sovereign, and lighting for tho just, object -whose attathraent they had awaited for generations. They wore happy and proud to hud theanselvws comrades in arms with- the great nation which was the first to give modern States the example of political librety, and was now fighting for the freedom of. nations. THE NAVAL DEMONSTRATION. ARREST OF GERMAN SPIES. LONDON, Sopt, 4. The Morning Post’s Athens , corrcr

tnro of the naval demonstration alt thed Piraeus, says;—Other and mot® impor-v ta.nt questions were being considered: when the fleet was orda •si thither, but| these have been satisfactorily settled* and were (therefore not referred to in( the Note. a Several Germans and Greeks engag-r ed in espionage and disseminating Gar-' man propaganda have been already ar-* rested. As an example of the need.for 1 action ho stated that the German legation, warned those in danger of aavt rest a wool, before the demonstrations occurred. The Government has decided, Witt,' the Allies’ consent, to postponethc-dis-solution and elections. GERMAN FUNDS SEIZED. BY ROUMANIAN GOVERNMENT.- ; (Received September 6, 10 a.m.) BUCHAREST, Sept- 5. The Government has sequestrated forty millions sterling of German capital, "including the bonds of Germany’s loans to Roumania. The latter are worth thirtv millions, and Germany: would probably have- sold them to neutrals. This intention is thus frustrated. No doubt Germany will retaliate, hut, she will only be able to sequestrate twenty millionsPRINCE BORIS. A XOO-RECENT CONVERT. (Received September 6, 11.40 am-) PETROGRAD, Sept 5. The newspapers deny that Prince. Boris, of Bulgaria, is Russophile. GERMANS ADVERTISING. FUTURE HOPED-FOR SUCCESSES.; (Received September G. 11.40 a,m.) LONDON, Sept. 5. A German communique states;-—The Bulgarians stprraed the bridge head at Tutrokan and occupied -Dobric. Gorman military circles expect a big battle on the Dobrudja frontier in a few days. It is stated that the Bulgarians are under a German general. PARTIAL GREEK MOBILISATION.: (Received Sopt.-ii, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 5. Tho Daily Chronicle’s Athens correspondent says it is understood that it has been decided to call up the five classes 1905 to 1909.