THE BALKANS WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3450, 30 September 1913, Page 5

THE BALKANS WAR

TUROO-B ULGARI AN PEACE CONCLUDED. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, Sept. 28. The Turco-Bulgarian peace negotiations have been concluded. 'The treat--will be signed on Monday. There are three secret protocols, supposed to concern Western Thrace. There is a deadlock between the Porte and Greece in connection with the question of the restitution of Chios and Mytelene. The Montenegrin losses in the two wars have been gazetted as 10.381 killed or wounded.

[“The economic exhaustion of the Balkans is already an accomplished fact,” says the “Economist.” “Railways have been damaged, bridges have been destroyed, farmhouses have been burnt wholesale, the male population has been decimated, most of the live stock and oxen must have been killed for food, or used in the transport service. If whatever future loans can bo extracted from foolish investors are to be applied (as the military Governments or these Powers will do well to applv them) to the replenishment of powder magazines and the purchase of no rifles, armaments, and. munitions of war, the desolation and misery of the population will be complete, and a complete mate of bankruptcy will be assured.” The Ambassadors i*London have agreed, in consequence of the Montenegrin declaration that all Montenegrin troops hare evacuated Albania, to recommend to the Governments of the Great Powers the confirmation of tfte repeated assurances to Montenegro of a grant of an international loan and also of assistance for the irrigation works of Lake Scutari. It is believed that the loan will be for £1.200,000.' 'distributed equally among the six Powers. The Austro-Hungarian Government is about to add 100,000 men to its army by increasing the number of recruits annually called up by 50,000. As the recruits serve two years this will raise the army from 402,000 to 502.000 men on the peace footing.]