BALKAN WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1673, 13 February 1913, Page 6

BALKAN WAR.

THOUSANDS OF TURKS SLAIN. BATTLE OF BULAJR. IMAGINARY VICTORIES. By Tolegraph— D reßS ABSoclallon-Copyrlght (Roc. February 12, 11.55 p;m.) '. , .' Sofia, .February 12. The GoVernment has issued a statement declaring that the Turks are .inventing imaginary victories.

There has been no important engagement at Chatnljn, while fifteen thousand Turks havo been killed or wounded at Bulnir, near the Dardanelles.

The Bulgarians have.nlready buried!2soo .Turks,;.and there are 3000 corpses still scattered about, tjho field.. ;'..•

STRANGE SCENES, ' : ~'l—, : "■■ • t ' • CONSTANTINOPLE IN DIRE STRAITS (Rec. February 12, 11:55 p.m.) : . .London, February. 12. The "Daily News's". Constantinople correspondent reports.that (he situation there is. extraordinary. Business is at n standstill, many fires have occurred,'and the inhabitants are .indulging'in amusement and plcas'nre, unheeding the war..'.Cholera has broken out on the Asiatic shore. The Government is in desperate !straits for money and is compelling rich merchants to subscribe funds; The -'Crown jewels have also been hypothecated.

Other reports stato that the Turks made a. sortie oh: Sunday and captured jifc the bayonet's point a.Bulgarian posi-;-tion. on • the l Daliden. Hills, inflicting. severe loss.' •'..-'"■"..

■ The troops' at Chatalja are also stated '.b have joined forces at Papa Bourgas and have occupied the heights; to the westward. / ' ' .;■ .' ','■ '■■: TURKISH FLIGHT. ) I • .DRIVEN-TOTHEIE SHIPS. ;■ ■'■" '■ ~ . ;■.'■ Sofia, February 11.- ' When the Turks landed'. at Chnrkeuv oil the Sea of Marmora, the Bulgarians, quickly hemming' them in, drove them panic-stricken td.the'r vessels. ;The Bulgarian infantry and artillery, maintaining -a deadly, fire, killed and wounded thousands. -Their own casualties did not exceed.prie hundred;/ , .". ■ ■The" Bulgarians'.were, exposed to '/the.' warships', 'fire; -and -retreated'/to, freshpositions, six -kilometres -in tho rear,-en-■ trenching before Bulair.' '''*'•.*■' ■.' --i''. '*' '"' '"' ■"'.■' \ '"" •-.SERVIAN AID. -'-BARGAIN WITH BULGARIA."• ■' ,■; '.',:'■ :".;' .Belgrade,'February11-'..: It isireported : tiiat the Bulgarians willrequire ; Servian .-.assistance. The troops are 'n readiness,' but' the Government'desires an .assurance with regard to the .'retention'bf various towns now occupied by Servian 'troops, and also wants a strip of territory giving access to the- Aegean Sea.--. : V ..„.'•'■'-

SIEGE OF ADR.IANOPLE. ■ "• / -".''.-' '• -PaHsi'February' 11. •- -The French Government has requested Bulgaria, to permit the foreign consuls and 200' Buropeahs'.itp .'leaveAdrianpplo; Bulgaria, in reply, quotes the German precedent -of the,siege, of Paris. (The.French Government maintains,its demand.

7; TURKISH WARSHIP WRECKED. ; '-..■ Constantinople, February 11. :• The Turkish ii'pnclad Assar-i-Tewik has l>een wrecked at Karoburun, 32 milca east by north of Gallipbli.'

Tho Assar-i-Tewik is a vessel with a displacement of about 51)00 tons. . She was built in ISO" at £a Seyne, and reconstruct-, ed at Krupp's yards in 1903-7;- Her 'a'riha-' nient consisted of three 'G-inch guns, seven 4.7-inch,.'and' six 6-pounders. Sho had a speed of thirteen knots. Her complement was 320 men.