BULGARS & SERVIANS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1913, Page 8

BULGARS & SERVIANS

FORMER REQUIRE FURTHER AID 1 SERVIA'S WANTS ! OCCUPIED TOWNS AND A STRIP OF TERRITORY. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— -Cdpyfight. (Received February 12, 9.25 a.m.) BELGRADE, 11th February. It is reported that the Bulgarians will require further Servian assistance.' The troops ,are in readiness, but the Government desires an assurance with regard to the retention of various towns now occupied by Servian troops, and also want** a strip of territory giving access to the iEgean Sea. -FRENCH DEMAND* BULGARIA QUOTES A PRECEDENT. (Received February 12, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, 11th February. The French Government has reijnestetl Bulgaria to permit the Consul** and 200 Europeo-us to leave Adrianople. liuJp-uhj in reply, quotes tho German precedent of tho siege of Paris. The French Gov eminent maintains its demand. INHABITANTS OF GALLIPOLI. THROWN INTcTa STATE OF PANIC. WOMEN AND CHILDREN DROWNED. SOFIA, 11th February. The inhabitants of Gallipoli' were thrown into a state of panic after' the Turkish defeat at Bulair. Many women and children wtre drowned in trying to embark oil steamers which Were crowded with refugees. The ground at Bulair is strewn with corpses, the bodies including twenty Turkish officers. The Bulgarians lostfive officers and 412 wounded. The number of the killed is unknown. MOVEMENTS OF CRUISERS, CAIRO, 11th tertiary. The Turkish cruiser Hamidieh, which fled to the Red Sea after the naval engagement in December, and has now returned, has left Port Said bound eastwards. A Greek cruiser is reported to have been sighted outside Egyptian territorial lvat-cw. PANIC-STRICKEN TURKS. HEAVY*" LOSS. BULGARIAN CASUALTIES LIGHT. (Received February 12, 12.10 p.m.) SOFIA, 11th February. When the Turks landed at Charkeui. the Bulgarians, quickly hemming them hi, drove them panic-stricken to their vessels. The Bulgarian infantry and artillery, maintaining a deadly fire, killed and wounded ( thousands. Their own casualties did not exceed one hundred. The Bulgarians were exposed to the warshipo' f5«, and retreated to fresh positions, six kilometres in tho rear, entrenching before Bulair.