TURKEY'S HOLD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1830, 16 August 1913, Page 5

TURKEY'S HOLD.

ON ADRIANOPLE.

NO ADMITTANCE FOR BULGARS. WILL RESIST WITH PICKED SOLDIERS. Br Tol»srft®h—Pwui Association—CoDniftbt Belgrade, August 14. Demobilisation of the army has been ordered. (Rec. August 15, 11.5 p.m.) London, August 15. Tho Turkish Grand Vizier (Said Pasha), interviewed by tho Constantinople correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," declared that if the Bulgarians reoocupied Adrianople, they would have to pass over the bodies of 200,000 picked troops. "The anger of the Turkish Army," ho said, "has reached a pitch of unprecedented fury, owing to Bulgarian misdeeds." Vienna, August 15. An influential deputation of citizens of Adrianople, headed by Orphanidos, a Greek, who is also a member of the Turkish Parliament, appealed to tho Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in favour of remaining under Turkish rule. They accused tho Bulgarian regulars of terrible atrocities, including the bayoneting of a thousand youths under eighteen years of ago, and of young women and children. Moreover, tho lileads of a hnndred women at Malgaria End elsewhere were hung by tho "hair on tho walls of the temples. A similar deputation goes to Paris and London. THE "TIGER" TELEGRAM. (Rec. August 15, 11.5 p.m.) Berlin, August 15. The "Cologne Gaz&tto" describes the Kaiser's reported letter to King Constantino of Greece (wherein he assured that monarch that ho had been fighting like a tiger on behalf of Greece) as an invention.