BATTLE PENDING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1913, Page 7

BATTLE PENDING

BETWEEN TURKS AND BULGARIANS ENVER BEY LANDS 60,000 MEN CIRCASSIANS WIPED OUT. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February i 3, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 12th February. Reuters Constantinople correspondent' states that Enver Bey, with 60,000 men, safely landed at Eregli, under the guns of the Turkish fleet. The Bulgarians retired on their Ergene lines, where there is a prospect of a general engagement. Troops are advancing from Chataldeja to co-operate with Enver Bey's force. Hundreds of Circassians were sent to Midia, on the Black Sea, and instructed to harass the Bulgarian communications. The first attempt failed, the Circassians being ambushed and wiped out. FRENCH PROPOSAL. DISTRIBUTION OF TURKISH DEBT. (Received February 13, 8.7 a.m.) PARIS, 12th February. Th« French Government is inviting the Ambassadors of the Great Powers to a financial conference to discuss the question of the distribution of the Turkish debt among the Balkan Allies when the latter 'have been installed in the conquered territory. A preliminary investigation places the amount at between sixteen and eighteen million pounds. FRANCE AND BULGARIA. n FORMER PERSISTS IN HER DEMAND. (Received February 13, 8.5 a.m.) 12th February. The French Government, has made further urgent reitesentations to the Bulgarian Government regarding her request that Bulgaria should permit the Foreign consuls and 200 Europeans to leave Adrianople. GREEKS REPULSE TURKS. LATTER LOSE ~MANY MEN AND MUCH WAR MATERIAL. (Received February 13, 8 a.m.) ATHENS, 12th February. The Greeks frustrated a Turkish attempt to occupy a defile at Zavreke. near Janina. Many Turks were lulled and they lost much war material. The Greek losses were small, and General Mathemanoula was slightly wounded. IN CONSTANTINOPLE. AN EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION. AMUSEMENT "AND PLEASURE. LONDON, 12th February. The Constantinople con-esjondent of the Daily News reports that the situation there is extraordinary. Business is Ah a standstill, many fires have occurred, and the inhabitants are indulging in amusement and pleasure, unheeding th<s war. Cholera has broken out on the Asiatic shbre. 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 state that the Turks made a sortie on Sunday and captured at the bayonet's point a BuJgarian position on the Daliden Hills, inflicting severe loss. The troops at Chataldeja are also stated to have joined forces at Papa Burgas and have occupied the heights to the westward. ALLEGED IMAGINARY VICTORIES. FIGHTING AT~"cHATALDEJA. SOFIA, 12th February. The Government has issued a statement declaring that the Turks are inventing imaginary victories. There has been no important engagement at Chataldeja, while fifteen thousand Turks have been killed or wounded at Bulair, near the Dardanelles. The Bulgarians have already buried 2500 Turks, and there are 3000 corpses still scattered about the field.