TURKEY'S LATEST ENEMY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 7

TURKEY'S LATEST ENEMY.

CHOLERA RAVAGES ARMY.

SERVIANS CAPTURE 50,000 TURKS 1. AT 10KASTIR. '

MACEDONIAN STRONGHOLD FALLS.

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(Rec, November 19, 10 p.m.)< 1 Constantinople, November 19. , The correspondents at Hademkoi, eight miles east'of Chafelja, state that'Nazim Pasha is drilling his troops, and has-re-stored some sort of order among the Turks,.but,their, morale is doubtful, and it is impossible' to arouse enthusiasm among . the Asiatic reservists. •The Turks' permanent works are armed with heavy Krupp guns, and 160,000 men are distributed around Hademkoi, with their flanks defended ' by lakes •nud swamps, ' . ' . The Bulgariims;, in'forcing Hademkoi; must cross-'a road oyer an undulating,, plain. " . ■: 'i- ,- • The weather is abnormally hot, and this is assisting the spread of cholera, dysen-, tery, and enteric. > The cholera', patients, are horded in a dump 1 surrounded:' by .barbed wire,; .but ,tha : precautions are futile, as outside - .victim's are •'■ wandering in', gardens ■ and fields, and dying by the roadside. The soldiers, maddened by-.thirst, are also drinking-water was infected by corpses. Only a few shots were fired at Chatalja yesterday. If cholera had. not. attacked the forts, the Turks'... resistance;, would easily last for-.weeks;. ...... ; , Turkish accounts - state that Muktar Pasha's division attacked and broke the Bulgarians' .formation; capturing a hum- - ber 'of' guns.The Turks lost heavily. ■, Official circles are mora optimistic; ?s to the ability of Turkey-to hold Chatalja, and are encouraged by tho reports of cholera \ and. typhus ravaging' the Bulgarian ranks., . - . - -'• It' is reported, that the Sultan, has appealed 'to . the Sovereigns of . various Powers, requesting their mediation. , \ Albanian residents. in Constantinople have, petitioned the . foreign Embassies, requesting the Powers to secure autonomy for Albania. BULGARIAN PLAN. Vienna, November. 18. The "Reichposff states that hostilities at Chatalja will soon, cease. The Bulgarian plan is to secure certain 1 positions, and exclude the possibility of a reverse ,iiß : a, condition of entering into negotiations ■for ain • armistice. !•. CHOLERA'EXPERT SUMMONED, i . Berlin, November 18.. . . King Ferdinand, a German special'i^~tfl.',«Smg 1 <sl\ol.er f >,, among the Bulgarian troops. MONABTIR captured. , SERVIANS TAKE 50,000 PRISONERS.' THREE PASHAS INCLUDED. : "Belgrade, November 18. Monastir, the remaining Turkish stronghold, in Macedonia, has surrendered to the Servians.; ■ „ Fifty thousand prisoners have been taken, ..including three pashas. ' •' Twenty thousand..Turks' opposed the Servians" 1 at. Monastir. There was . ter- . riblo weather, , the Servians being often knee-deep in' water. ' They captured the Oblakova and Kochista Heights (altitude, 3600 ft.), after brilliant night attacks. Simultaneously, the right wing threatened the Turkish retreat. The, Turks made a desperate resistance, the Serbians losing 250 men.' . " ' • . 1 The fighting, continues. ■ King Peter of'Servia has attended a \thanksgiving mass at Uskub. ZEKKI PASHA A CAPTIVE. (Rec. November 19, 11.5 p.m.) i ' : Vienna, November 19. •' It is reported that Zekki Pashi, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Turkish Macedonian Army, and Fethi Pasha, late Turkish Minister to Belgrade,! are among- the Monaster prisoners, AUSTRIA IRRITATED. ALLEGED ATTACK ON A CONSUL. CHARGES AGAINST • SERVIANS. ; (Rec, . November 19, 11.5 p.m.) ; ' Vienna, November 19. The treatment-occorded to the Contriils and tk© uncertainty as to the safety of M 7. Prochaska, the A ustro-Hungarian Consul, at.' Prizrea, in Northern Albania, is creating irritation against Servia. • Tho Servian Premier, M. Pasics, has refused to permit an : Austrian official to visit Prizren to investigate. Count Berchtold, Minister for Foreign Affairs, is pressing for . the right to communicate with Austria's diplomatic, representative. According to tho Albanian account, the Servians threatened to fire and shell the Austria'n Consulate at Prizren unless they weris admitted. M. Prochaska yielded, and the Servians found the courtyard packed with Albanian women and children refugees. They converted the place into a shambles, and afterwards burst into M. Prochaska's room. When he struggled with them they bayoneted him in the thigh. '. His .present.whereabouts is,unknown. The "Reichpost" states that a fugitive Albanian leader : named ' Koldiha states that the Servians; in occupying Prizren, shot, the population in tho streets with machino giuis, killing 111 men, 35 wfiinen, and. 10 children.-'' . , CONSUL ESCAPES. j Vienna, November'lß. - The Austrian Consul has escaped from Mitrovitza, where he was practically a prisoner. The Consul at Prizren is being similarly treated because he transmitted Austrian views of Servian outrages. . The "Coiisul at Mitrovitza alleges that he saw many bodies of Albanian's floating in the. river. AUSTRIAN SLAVS RESTLESS. TROUBLE IN BOSNIA. Vienna, November 18. Serb deputies in tho Bosnian Diet passed a resolution in favour of Servia extending her territory to the Adriatic. The police dispersed'" Servian students :wlw.were folding .'a demonstration at Serajavo. ' . - , Two Dalmatian' Councils have been dissolved for having pro-Balkan sympathies.

. Ukraniau (Little Russia) Btudenta at Bukayana, smashed the windows of the. Russian Consulate. Fifty were arrested. . ! r ALBANIAN MARAUDERS. SEIZE ARMS FROM FLEEING TURKS, (Reo. November ID, 11,6 p.m.) . Belgrade, November 19. ■ The Arnauts (Albanians) E?ized the rifles from many flying Turks and captured a number of mountain guns.' Other .Turks bartered their magazine rifles for bread. • ; The- Arnauts are ravaging the country and the Servians are endeavouring to capture them. . It is officially denied that the Consuls at Prizren and Mitrovitza were subjected to annoyance. ; SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE. PROLONGED STRUGGLE PREDICTED. ' Berlin, November 18. The military correspondent of the "Loknl-Anzieger"- says that under present' conditions it is possible for Adrianople to hold out for two months. The Allies •are still "outside tho range of the real defences. The Turks, he adds, would be foolish to. negotiate for peace at-present, as the best Bulgarian troops have been decimated, and the last man and the last rifle sent to the front. PEACE TERMS. WHAT SERVIA DEMANDS. (Rec. November 19, 11.5 p.m.) Sofia, November 19. Cabinet is disoussing the peace terras. Servia insists on acquiring part of ..the Albanian coast with the port of Durazzo. i AUTONOMY FOR ALBANIA, > ITALY AND AUSTRIA AGREE. (Rec. November 19, 11.5 pim.) Budapest, November 19. • Count Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has informed the Hungarian Delegation that there is no .reason'to doubt that tho Balkan States appreciate and have considered the high importance of establishing sound ■ielatfoits with jAj with !j£; Daneff^' President .of "the ' Biifc garian Sobrdnje, - had confirmed this. Italy: and, Austria had agreed'to Albanian autonomy. . GREEK OPERATIONS. AEGEAN ISLAND OCCUPIED. Athens, Novebmer 18. The Greeks have occupied Icaria, an island, on the coast of Asiatic Turkey, to tlis west of Samos. . (Rec. November 19, 11.5 p.m.) Athens, November 19. The villages of. the Kassandra Peninsula have been occupied, together with the .towns of Pbligyros and Landos. A detachment-of Cretans killed a hundred members of a Turco-Albanian band which had committed depredations in . Epirus. MONTENEGRINS AT ALESSIO, (Rec. -November 19, 11,5 p.m.) Cetinje, November 18. It is reported General Martinovics, of the Montenegrin Army, has occupied Alessio,' on the' Adriatic. ' BLUEJACKETS LANDED; (Rec. November 19, 11.5 p.m.) . Constantinople/November 19. ' Three thousand three hundred bluejackets of various nationalities, with Maxim, guns, have been landed at P'e'ra, from the foreign warships.