THE BALKAN WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 10 December 1912, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR.

SIGNING THE ARMISTICE, ' ! RIVAL GENERALS EMBRACE PEACE DELEGATES. I \ el By Telesraph—Prc6s Association—CoDrrieiit (Roc. December 9, 9.20 p.m.) t , London, December 9. J The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent, Signor Luigi Barzini, tlegraphing from Chatalja, narrates the closing scenes of the armistice conference. After the Greek Minister withdrew from j the negotiations and left in the train, the final problem was whether Turkey would * allow a Bulgarian train to pass through Adrianople. After a long silence, Nazim Pasha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, said: "Let it be so, but wait ten days till the negotiations begin in I/ondon." M. Daneff, of Bulgaria, rose and extended his hand, saying: "It is finished: J we are in agreement." 'J The negotiators, in the intensity of the i reaction, forgot the struggle, and in an t irresistible impulse exchanged embraces, 1 including 'General Savoff and Nazim j Pasha. Later champagne was opened, and v Nazim Pasha drank to tho health, of the valiant Bulgarian Army. The Bulgarian 1 delegates replied with the health of the \ valiant Ottoman Army. THE PEACE CONFERENCE. DELEGATES APPOINTED. (Rec. December 9, 11.5 p.m.) London, December 9. j The peace negotiations will bo conducted at St. James's Palace. M. Daneff, President of the Bulgarian ( Sobranje, M. Madjaroff, Bulgarian Minis- £ ter in London, General Paprikoff, an ci- , Foreign Minister, will represent Bulgaria in the peace negotiations. , M. Novakitch, a former Premier, M. . Nikolitch, President of the Skupitina, and t M. Vesnjoh, Minister in Paris, will represent Servia. ■ j M. Venezelos, the Premier, and M. Skolondis, a former Foreign Minister, will act for Greece. M. Mijuskovitch, an ex-Premier, and M. Popovitch, formerly Minister at Constantinople, will represent Montenegro. Nizami Pasha will be the principal ] Turkish delegate. t St. James's Palace was built by < Henry VIII. Queen Mary died in it in e 1558. Charles I slept in it the night be- s fore his execution, and walked across the park to Whitehall next morning (1649). •. After Whitehall was burned down in 1691, St. James's Palace became the chief resit denco of the English Kings from Wil- i liain 111 to George IV. Qiveen Victoria 6 was married in the Chapel Royal at the palace. In 1809 a fire destroyed the bulk . of the Tudor building. Though the palace is no longer an official residence of the c Sovereign, the British court is still offi- 1 cially i known, as the "Court of St. c James." t AVIATOR KILLED. I FATAL FLIGHT OVER CHATALJA'. (E-eo. December 9, 11.5 p.m.) Vienna, December 9. Dr. Constantin, who joined the Bulgarian aviators, left camp to drop bombs over Chatalja, and as he did not return a search was "organised with the result j that he was found dead with his hands still at the helm of his biplane, the wings of which were bored with shot. The barograph showed that he had been 1220 meters above the Turkish fort. He pho- ' tographed a train and was then shot, having just strength enough left to turn his aeroplane towards the Bulgarian camp. GREEK CAMPAIGN. ITALIAN STEAMER CAPTURED. j Athens, Deoember' 8. ! The Greeks have captured Santi Quaranta (one of the ports of Yanina). The cruiser Makedonia captured the Italian steamer AdTiatico at Valona, which . was embarking Albanians. The Make- * donia is taking the Adriatico to Corfu. One thousand five hundred Albanians 'attempted to take by surprise Himora ] Pass. Major Spiromolio, head of the < Greek volunteers, gallantly defeated the Albanians. The inhabitants of the island of Symi (on the south-west of Asia Minor, at the mouth of the Gulf of Doris) have pro- ' claimed a union with Greece and have notified tho Italians that they are resolved to prevent the Turks' return, and will Tiso against the Italians if they aid tho Turks. A thousand armed inhabitants under 1 the command of a former Cretan priest j are prepared for eventualities. . AN UNBELIEVING TURK. REFUSES TO STOP FIGHTING. j (Rec. December 9, 11.5 p.m.) Cetinje, December 9. Riza Bey, the Turkish commander at Scutari, refused to. receive a Montenegrin messenger with Nazim Pasha's letters an- < nouncing the armistice. Declaring the let- : ter to be forged, the Turks opened fire all along the line. BULGARIA'S LOSSES. Sofia, December 8. ] A semi-official communication states . that Bulgaria's casualties total 70,000 killed and wounded. .RUMANIA CONSULTED. (Rec. December 9, 11.5 p.m.) Sofia, Deoembor 9. M. Daneff, President of the Sobranje,is visiting Bukarest to discuss Rumania's desire for economic territorial compensation. i SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE. Constantinople, Deoember 8. The Vali of Adrianople reports that a ' general assault on the night of December ' ' i was repulsed after a fierce six hours' ■ fight. I ] ANXIETY IN BELGRADE. Belgrade, December 8. ' There is anxiety in Belgrade over the Prizren affair. It is stated that General Janovich, commander of the Servian Army Corps at Prizren, is very angry because M. Prochaska, the Austrian Consul i at Prizren, was not paid a visit after the i surrendor.