THE BALKAN WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10736, 7 April 1913, Page 1

THE BALKAN WAR.

■MONTENEGRO AND THE POWERS. KING NICHOLAS DEFIANT. MEANS TO MAKE SCUTARI HIS v . I CAPITAL. By T«legr»ph.—Press Asi«si«tion.—Copyright CETTINJE, April 5. King Nicholas, in an interview, said that he meant to keep the territory captured and make Scutari his capital. THE BLOCKADING FLEET. SUGGESTED MONETARY COMPENSATION TO MONTENEGRO. LONDON, April 5. Rear-admiral Troubridge commands the blockading,fleet, which arrived too late to prevent the landing of Servian troops to assist in the capture of Scutari. CETTINJE, April 5.. Three Austrian, two Italian, one British, one German, and one French warships have arrived at Antivari. BERLIN, A t ril 5. .The " Frankfurter Zeitung '\ foreshadows m6netary compensation to Montenegro for the loss ot Scutari. ."■-.■■-. VIENNA. April 5. • A demonstration at Spalita in DalmBtia, in favour of the Balkan States, was suppressed, and numerous arrests were made. AT SCUTARI. •■' ''* SERVIAN ASSISTANCE.NEW PLAN OF GENERAL ATTACK. ' LONDON, April 5. • Servian howitzers have been posted around Scutari. The Servian General Boyevitzch and Colonel Pavlositch have revised the plan of general attack.

PIACE PROPOSALS. • REPLY OF ALLIES TO THE POWERS. RESERVATIONS TO THE CONDITIONS. ' / ' SOFIA, April 5. The. allies have replied to the Note of the Powers, accepting the conditions rubject to the following reservations:— - Thatihe subjected frontier of Thrace ■houidjbe a basis for negotiation, not a definite line.. That the iEgean Islands should be ceded to the allies. ' That the proposed Albanian frontiers Bhould ba. known beforehand. The allies hope that- they will be in conformity ■with those they proposed at the London Conference. That'a war indemnity must be an accepted pribciple, the amount to be fixed by a commission, on which the allies will be represented. If these conditions are admitted the irar;will cease directly. . . THE NEW FRONTIERS. \ RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S : WARNING. LONDON, April 5. M. Sa'zonoff, Russian Minister of Foreign in a speech, -warned Servia against pushing further south than the treaty of alliance permitted. He added, that the settlement of the frontier was likely to lead to grave complications with Bulgaria. RUSSIA'S ATTITUDE. STATEMENT BY M. SAZONOFF. . ST PETERSBURG, April 5. M. Sazonoff, in receiving a deputation of the Duma, declared that Russia did not fear war complications. The Allies' demands would be more or less satisfied, but Montenegro would receive less than the others. After referring to the Servian-Bulgarian frontier difficulty, he added that hitherto Servia and Bulgaria had attached little importance to the frontier 'in anticipation of the Czar acting as supreme arbiter. Recently the Servians. had seemed to avoid such settlement. He added that the question of the Dardanelles was not ripe. The attitude of Russia and the Allies in the European concert must first be defined. MUST NOT ENTER CONSTANTINOPLE. BUSSIAN WARNING TO KING FERDINAND. LONDON, April 5. Telegrams from St Petersburg state that Russia categorically warned King Ferdinand of Bulgaria against entering Constantinople. ROUMANIAN CLAIMS. POWERS AGREE TO BASIS OF SETTLEMENT. v ST PETERSBURG, April 5. The Towers have agreed to a basis of settlement of the Roumanian-Bul-garian dispute.