A CORRESPONDENT'S DASH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1577, 22 October 1912, Page 5

A CORRESPONDENT'S DASH.

HALF-WAY TO ADRIANOPLE, BULGARIANS OCCUPY TURKISH VILLAGES. (Rec- October 21, 9.55 p.m.) London, October 21.1 Mr, Beaumont, the Sofia correspondent of tho ''Daily Telegraph/' made a daring dash in a. motor-car ovet three mountain ranges, and reached Philippopolis, halfway between Sofia and Adrianople. The authorities then threatened to arrest Mm if he continued hi? effort (o reach the fighting line.

Mr. Beaumont states that a member of King Ferdinand's staff told him that 1100 Bulgarian cavalry had a sharp fight with 2000 Turkish cavalry. In tho general melee the Bulgarians lost a hundred raon, but vera finally victorious. King Ferdinand watched the onslaught. The wounded were taken to a wa,Hing-room at the Philippopolis station. The Bulgarians have occupied nuhier. ous Turkish villages, and are enrolling the non-Moslem population capable of service. . . Mr. Beaumont heard that in Macedonia tho rebels are masters of the Salonika highway, and have dynamited bridges and great stretches of railway. APPEAL BY TURKEY. DESIGNS OF A GREAT POWER FEARED. SEIZURE OF ASIAN PROVINCES. (Rec. October 21, 9.10 p.m.) London, October 21. Mr. Donshoe, the "Daily Chronicle's" Constantinople correspondent ha? interrawed Kiamll Pasha, who stales that Turkey fears the intervention of a certain great Power in her Asian provinces, which are now undefended, nnd appeals to Great Britain to seo that the ring is not rushed and Turkey absolutely crushed as a preludo to a gigantic strugglo involving Europe. ' BRITAIN AND THE WAR. London, October 20. Mr. C.' F. Mnsterman, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, riiade a strong anti-Turkish speech at Bethnal Green. He j said if Britain had another opportunity of intervention she must not, as in 1878, I put her money on the wrong horse. ' FX-SULTAN ABDUL HAMID. ' TKANRFtmRED TO CONSTANTINOPLE. (Rpc. October 21, 10.40 p.m.) Constantinople, October 21.

The ox-Sultan Abdul Haniid, who lms been coniined in Pnlonikn, will be housed in the pnlaco in Constantinople, where his brother, Murad V. was imprisoned.

The "Tauin" newspaper violently nttacks the Qoveniitucat for tfansfsfrio^.

Abdul Hamid, as he will constitute a national danger in Constantinople.

BRITISH HKD CROSS UNITS. London, October 20. Drs. Goldsmith and Bradford (AustinHans) leave to-night with the second Kcil Cross unit for Montenegro, Sir Ernest Cassel is defraying the cost of three B«l Cross units for Turkey. The telegraph office has been ndrised from Berne: "Teleurnphic communication by the neighbouring.routes wilh Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, mid Soi-via is inlerrupted. Private telegrams for Crete must be written in Greek, Vrench, English, and Italian and Gcrninii. Telegrams written in other languages aro stopped on nrrivnl." Berne al-o notifies: "The Bulgarian Administration notify that as a result of the war telegraphic communiontions between Bulgaria and Turkey are suspended."