TURKEY WARNED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 7

TURKEY WARNED.

JOINT NOTE BY THE POWERS

PORTE'S REPLY.

NO CESSION OF ADRIANOPLE,

By Teloeraph—Press Association—Copyright

(Reo. January 19, 5.5 p.m.)

1 London, January ,18. . Tho Joint Note by the Great Powers has jj. been presented to' the Porte. A ' Paris | message states that tho Joint Note calls ' the attention of the Porte to tho grave J responsibility of resisting their oounsels, J And preventing the re-establishment of ' peace. The Porte will only have itself to • blame if the prolongation of matters puts 5 in question the fate of Constantinople • and tho extension .of hostilities, to the ' Asiatio provinces. In such a contingency the Porte would be unable to count on the • efforts of .the.'-.'Powers to preserve it—a ■ danger against which ifc has already been ' warned. If Turkey consents to the cession 1 of Adrianople to the; Allies, and left i jEgean matters to the decision of tho 1 Powers, the latter would endeavour to I assure the safeguarding ,of Mussulman ' interests in Adrianople, and also exclude i all menace of Turkey's security in. any settlement, in ■ respect to the iEgean Islands.' •••.•. THE ADRIANOPLE QUESTION. ——— * ' : .TURKEY DETERMINED. 1... (Rec., January 20, 0.30 a.m.) 'London, January 19. E-outer'a Constantin6ple correspondent states that the Porte's'.dTaft reply to the Powers' Note insists on tho retention of i Adrianople, and declines the surrender of I the JUgean Islands near tho coast. Turkey, however, is ready, the .Note is stated to | add,. to oontinue pourparlers 1 regarding i tho more distant JEgoan Islands. TERRIBLE ALLEGATIONS. ' ATROCIOUS MASSACRES ALLEGED. ■ (Kec. January 19, 5.5 p.m.) Vienna, January 18. The "Reichpost" ■ publishes details alleging that twenty-five thousand people have been.'massacred since the outset of the war in the vilayet of Kossovo. Tho "Reichpolt," in the : course of a statement. entitled,"fervia's .Blood. Guilt in. Albania," detiils that a hundred out of a hundred and thirty-two wounded Albanians at Uskub were allowed to die of starvation. : v : Soldiers/admit that in o village where shots wore fired!after the whit® flag' had been hoisted, the villagers were smoked out of their homes, and 'came screaming and weeping. The•;troops ''shot /down the adults, bayoneted the. children, and violated the women and girls above twelve years of age beforo'their fathers and husbands,. .■' . i The Servians slaughtered twelve hundred Albanians at Ferisovitch, the entire population of Gillane, and five thousand at Pristina. At Prizren, the Servian soldiery entered the homes, slaying, irrespective of age or sex, and killing four hundred. They; destroyed throe villages near.. Prizren, shooting thirty''of the headmen because they wero favourable* to Austria. The soldiers also MuadiAlbahian women together, forced .them to dance in rings, and,'then fired their rifles, watching them .fall, one ,by.one.',;r-'.-v:i, ''.y _ General Jankovitch ordered the destrucI tion.of twenty-seven villages in the Ljnma [ dfttrict.. The, women and children were wrapped in straw and burnt alive. Four hundred men who surrendered were shot In batches of forty. BULGARIA'S LOSSES. . TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND KILLED. (Rec. January 19, 5.5, p.m.) ' , ■ ■ Sofia, January 18. , The Bulgarian war/losses to date are now given as 281 officers and 21,018 men killed, and 876 officers and 51,000 men' wounded. About seventy per cent, of the latter have recovered. ' Of thirty-five thousand x stricken. with; oholora at Chatalja, thirty thousand have died. .■ , '■■'■•■I- '■''' MOSLEM APPEALB. . KING GEORGE APPROACHED. • (Rec. January 19, 5.5 p.m.) • .London, January 18. i ■ A number of . Turkish. Senators have memorialised King George and other 1 Sovereigns, protesting against the Balkan ; j massacro by the Allies. ! "Allandia," a ■ Moslom league in Lon- i don, has addressed Sir Edward Grey, Sec- i retaw of State, for Foreign. Affairs, pro- I 1 testing- against the massacres, and urging J Britain not to 'press for the surrender j of Adrianople, which is a holy sanctuary 1 and the key, to Constantinople. i

PRIfcREN INCIDENT CLOSED. > . Vienna, January 17. Ml Prosohaska, • Austrian Consul, has hoisted tho Austrian flag at the Consulate at Prizren. : , / The Servian troops saluted the flag, thus terminating .the .."incident," ; '' SERVIAN ARMY DIFFERENCES.. • Belgrade, January 17.', Colonel Boyoviteh, head of the artillery branch of the General Staff, has resigned owing to differences, with (he' Headquarters Staff on the question of promotions. General ■ Bojanovics succeeds PROTECTION OF THE CHURCHES. (Rec. January 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 18. Tho "Daily Telegraph" states that the Ambassadors' Conference has declared the independent churches to be under the protectorate of ail the orthodox Balkan kingdoms. BOMBARDMENT OF SHU. (Reo. January 19, 5.5 p.m.) Constantinople, January 18. It was the Turkish cruisor Hamidieh, and not the Medjidieh, whioh bombarded the Greek island of Syra.