THE BALKAN WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 7

THE BALKAN WAR.

A BULGARIAN RUSE.

TURKS DECIMATED BY ■ SHRAPNEL. , POSITION AT ADRIANOPLE. By Telegraph—PreSß Association-Copyright (Ucc. Febraaty 16, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 15, Tho "Daily JlailV Constantinople correspondent reports tlint tho Turkish, loss at Bulair was duo to a Bulgarian rueo.

Tho Bulgarians feigned to 1m in : disorder and retreated to a plain commanded by the slopes of tho Kurudagh Moun> tains.

The Turks broke covcr and followed, being decimated by shrapnel from Bulgarian batteries on the mountains. The situation at Bulair .is unchanged. The Turks have occupied Ormanlikeui in tho Chatalja district. TURKS DESERTING ADRIANOPLE. Sofia, February 14. A detachment of Turks with arms de-. Sorted Adrianople. ' (Rec. February 16, 5,5 p.m.) Constantinople, February 15. There was no fighting at Adrianople on Thursday or Friday. , , Paris, February . 15. Bulgaria states that tho commander of Adrianople has been instructed to establish a neutral tone at Karagatch, Outsido tho city. GREEKS ARRESTED AT CONSTANT!NOPLE. Athenij February 15. The Greeks who are being expelled from , Constantinople have reported 'that- tw#j thousand of their compatriots have beea! arrested. ' CRETANS HOIST THE GREEK FLAG. < Candla, February 15. ; All the warships have left Suda Bay. The Turkish flag was htuiled down} and the Cretans hoisted the Greek flag,, TURKISH CRUISER AT MALTA. 1 Malta, February 15. • The Turkish cruiser Hamidieh unexpectedly put in hero owing to stress of weather. It i 9 expected that sh6 is going; to tho lonian Seas. Bho must letivo here: frithin twenty-four hours. The Greek; community is excited., . , , .j! (Rec. February 10, 5.5 p.m.) j: i Malta, February 15. The Sattiidieh haS applied for an extension of time, pleading that her machinery is disabled. > AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA'. Berlin, February 14. Tho press publishes carping oriticisma : of the "Fremdenblatfs" statement to the effect that PriucO Gddefori Hshcnliho's mission from the EmpSrof of Austria to the Tsar, has attained its object—the proVenting of tho spreading, of; political differences to relations between tho two C-oUrls. ■ • 1 , ' The "Vossisohe Zeitung" dalle Count von Berchtold, tho Foreign Minister, 1 the ''Austrian Baldane,'' who made approaches before the soil was ripe.'