BALKAN WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1608, 27 November 1912, Page 7

BALKAN WAR.

SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE. SEVERE FIGHTING REPORTED. . CHOLERA IN THE NORTH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. November 26,' 11.5 p.m.) London, November 26. • The "Daily News" correspondent at Semlin, Hungary, : reports that cholera is spreading in the north'of .Turkey, anil lias reached Bulgaria. , Tho news is strictly censored, but there are several hundred cases of cholera at Mustapha Pasha, near Adrianople, where the sanitary hospital arrangements are dangerously inadequate. A school has been converted into a hospital, and many of the patients are lying on the floor. The corpses often lie. untouched for twenty-four hours. The water of the Maritza. River is contaminated,' and cholera is, raging at Adrianople, the victims including the Servian besiegers. . The Bulgarian regulars have been sent from Adrianople,to Chatalja, and tho Servians and third-class reservists are maintaining the investment of the, town. The 'Servians are indignant at the censorship, which does not •; permit of the mention by them' that their largest guns of fifteen centimetres are . hopelessly • outranked by the great Turkish batteries. Tho Turks have repulsed every attempt to hold the Papastepe fort, and, displaying. desperate gallantry, have won. back ground, especially on the right bank of the Maritza, where General Kirkoif's seventh division . has retired ' four miles, and on the left bank, where the Servians have isustained. heavy losses. The Bulgarian .infantry on Thursday, after a fierce fight, entered Karagach, a suburb, of .Adrianople, and street fighting ensued; The: Bulgarians were eventually forced to retire. ■ • The correspondent estimates that there have' been twelve thousand .Bulgarian and, Servian casualties at Adiianople. '

.BULGARIANS CLOSING IN. (Rec.; November 26, 11.5 p.m.) : Sofia, November 26. ■ The Turks at Adriaricple on Sunday made.a.sortie to tie Southern Bulgarian •lines, but were repulsed with considerable '.loss. The Bulgarian investment is now 'within, a kilometre of thetown.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. r ONLY FORMAL SO FIE. ■ (Rec. November 26, 11.5 p.m.) Constantinople, , November 26. . Only outpost fighting is proceeding: at Chatalja.' ' ' ■;.' . 1 The meeting of the peace delegates so far has only been-formal. Osman Pasha .and Nazim Pasha have not yet arrived from abroad. ■ . - , Sofia, November 25. The Turkish and Bulgarian, plenipotentiaries have met at Abaktctiikcui, bear Boyuk-Chekmeje, 'twenty miles west' of Constantinople; . ..

' ADVANCE ON THE ADRIATIC

. SERVIANS NEARING DURAZZO. (Rec. November 26, 11.5 p.m.) London; November 26. . .The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Durazzo, the Albanian seaport on the Adriatic, reports that the Servian's " are preparing / to 1 ' cross .tlve"'River. Matja in

boats. en route' to attack Durazzb, whither the Servians who were. victorious 'at. Monastir, are also marching.

A RULER FOR ALBANIA. KltfG OP RUMANIA APPROACHED. Bukarest, November 25. An Albanian Mohammedan deputation has. arrived here seeking the' King of Rumania's consent to nominate Prince .Charles as Prince of Albania when a principality ia created. v ,

Prince Charles, or Carol, of Rumania, is the eldest son of the. Grown Prince of Rumania, andVon his: mother's side is a first cousin once removed of King George of England. His mother was a daughter of the late Duke of Edinburgh. He was born in 1893, and is a member' of • the Orthodox Greek Church. Prince Charles also stands in the same relationship to the Kaiser that he does to the King of? England.'

20,000 TURKS DEFEATED. ' GREEK- VICTORY AT VLADOVA. ; Athens, November 25. ■ Details of' the battle at. Vladova, preceding the occupation of Fiorina, show that the Greeks defeated twenty thousand Turks after, a .three ; hours', fight. Eight hundred Turks were killed. •AN ISLAND OCCUPIED. Constantinople, November 25, It is reported that the Greeks have occupied Chios, a Turkish island in. the Aegean Sea, off the West Coast of Asia Minor. \ AUSTRIA'S GRIEVANCE. \ ; INVESTIGATION BLOCKED. (Rec. November 26, 11.5 p.m.) Vienna, November 26. ' The Consul sent to. inquire into the position at Prizren, where the Austrian Consul was-alleged to have been attacked, state's that he was not allowed to proceed -beyond Uskub. , BRITISH -SQUADRON WITHDRAWN. London, November 25. . The third'battleship squadron has returned'to- Malta from, tho East. This is interpreted as being due to the easing of tho Balkan situation. TROUBLE ON A -MERCHANT SHIP. Constantinople, November 25. The British merchantman Osiris, carrying 6ix hundred refugees from Salonika, ran short of food. - The rofugoes menaced the captain and crow. Oh the vessel's arrival at Constantinople, tho British cruiser Hampshire was -sent to'guard her. RED CROSS ASSISTANCE.' ' Constantinople, November 25. A Greek lady has joined. Miss Alt, the English nurse who is caring for the wounded at her own expense at Sau Stefano. Major Ford, an American, is the only volunteer doctor at the. San Stefano cholera camp. Mr. Philip, secretary to tho United States Embassy, and the Hon. Maurice Baring, the author, are assisting. . HEAVY CHOLERA LOSSES. . Berllnj November 25. It is reported that tho Bulgarians we losing seven hundred men daily from cholera. UNJUSTIFIED ALARMS. London, November 25. The "Evening Standard" says that the week-end alarms with respect to the ;n----ternational situation are unjustified. The action of. a. section of the English and Continental press in adding to the scare by giving prominence to rumours intended to influence'the Bourses is reprehensible. . : Berlin, November 28, 'Tho Bourse la inclined to panic.