The Balkan Situation

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5325, 4 June 1913, Page 5

The Balkan Situation

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i Disputes of the Allies, j London, June 3. | I M, Basics, Servian Premier, and M. Gueschoff, Bulgarian Premier, I , have recommended a meeting of the I Premiers of the four nations of the | : Balkan League to endeavour to settle the question of the disputes between the Allies. . It is stated that a meeting on these lines will he held in St. Petersburg, j j The North German Gazette, after j eulogising Sir Edward Grey’s ell'orts j towards peace, states the signing of ! ■ the peace treaty was a proof of the I Powers’ co-operation, which had re- j suited in a desirable provisional

This result was a stimulus to further joint action. The paper was hopeful the allies would amicably settle their own disputes. Constantinople, June 3. M. Nachevitch, formerly the Bulgarian representative in Constantinople, has arrived here on the special mission, it is believed, ot trying to secure Turkey’s neutrality in the event of a war between Bulgaria and Servia and Greece. Several thousands of Turks from Bulgaria have enlisted and undertaken the duty of watching the lines of communication between Seres and Drama, The Turkish demobilisation has keen delayed, pending the solution of the Allies’ dispute. London, June 3. M. Basics, Premier of Servia, and M. Guschotr, Premier of Bulgaria, have arranged to confer alTharibrod, to which place both are journeying. The Daily Mail’s Sofia correspondent states that it is reporte 1 that M. Venezelos, Premier of Greece and Minister for War, has resigned, as he does not wish to bear the responsibility of the warlike disposition of troops against Bulgaria. Received 9.15 a.m., 4th. 1 Belgrade, June 3. At a cordial conference it was stated that Servia is willing to demohlise if Bulgaria will do likewise. There is a general belief that the danger of a conflict has been removed. Vienna, June The meeting of the Balkan Premiers was welcomed, though it is doubled whether they have their respective military parlies sufficiently in hand to arrange a tolerable modus vivendi. Military feeling in Servia bitterly resents the treatment received on the f all of Adrianople.