CREEK CAMPAIGN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1586, 1 November 1912, Page 5

CREEK CAMPAIGN.

MASSACRES iBY THE; 'TURKS. CHRISTIANS PUT IN FOREFRONT OF BATTLE. ',:•...' ■ Athens, October 30. The Greeks are pressing on to Yanina, in Epirus, , , ■ Horrible .accounts are given, regarding :the retreating army, who .are burning villages and massacring the .inhabitants. (Reo. November 1, 0.20 a.ni.) ,- . '":■.. Athens, October 31. I , Five hundred, Greeks . who deserted j from the Turkish army, have arrived at Athens. -....-.- . , The Greeks captured in the. Kossani dis-> trict a Turkish' field hospital, with four hundred beds. .-: : ( , . One-fourth of the Turkish wounded in hospital are Constantinople Christians, indicating that they were placed in the forefront or battle. ■■-.-,. RAILWAY LINE CUT. Athens,, October 30. ' The railway -line has been cut between Veria, 38 miles west" by s6uth of Salonikft, and Monastir. ' . Twenty Greek villages in the neigh, bourhood of Yanina have been burned and looted, and the inhabitants massacred by Turks. ' ■ ■' A Greek'privateer-has arrived at Lar. naca, on the Island of Cyprus, and will sail again to-morrow. ' . Two. Austrian, eteainers seized at' Corfu, and which were bound for .Santi Quaranta, Yanina, Turkey, were released after a quantity of contraband had been removed. • SCUTARI SURROUNDED. . . MORE WHITE FLAG TREACHERY.' Cetinje, October 30. Tho Turks -with a white flag approached Montenegrin positions east of Scutari, ar-d then fired on and bayonetted tho Montenegrins, three hundred of whom v<l6 killed or wounded. The Montenegrins rounded.and exterminated the Turks.' 1 General Zumilo's and General Martinovic's columns have ju.nctioned on tho eastern side of Scutari. TURKISH LOAN REFUSED. ' UNSUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATIONS. London, October 30. , According to the "Standard," Turkey lias- unsuccessfully attempted to borrow .£4,000,000 in England, France, ,-.nd Germany successively.