BALKAN WAR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 15119, 13 August 1913, Page 7

BALKAN WAR.

GREEK REJOICING. WITH DOUBLE MEANING. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright Received 6.30 p.m., August 12th. SALONNIKA, August 11. The Greeks held a thanksgiving service in the church, of St. Sophia, which has been occupied for five hundred years as a Mahommetan mosque. The sen-ice referred to the glories of the ancient Byzantine emperors, and ended with a eulogy of Constantino. . • TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. HARD ON .BULGARIA. SOFIA, August 11. The unlikelihood of a revision of the settlement causes a profound depression in Bulgaria. The Holy Synod's organ -declares that the-treaty paves a way to another war in the not distant future, again soaking tho Balkans with blood. Discontent is caused owing to Bulgaria being required to be the first to domobolise, though Turkey has 200,000 troops threatening from Adrjanople. BULGARIA DISBANDING. . BUT WAITING FOR TURKEY. Press Association —By Tel. —Copyright. Received 11.10 p.m., August 12th . BUCHAREST, August 11. Bulgarian demobilisation has be-, gun. The older classes of reservists have been disbanded. A large force of regulars is, however, kept in readiness in Southern Bulgaria to re-occupy Thrace when the Turks withdraw to the Enos-Midda line. Russia and some of the other Powers have given Bulgaria assurances for the enforcement of the London Treaty. >