TURKEY DECLINES TO ASSIST BULGARIA.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 69, 19 November 1885, Page 2

TURKEY DECLINES TO ASSIST BULGARIA.

[BBVTBBB TKLEGBAMB.} Sofia, November 17. Despatches from tb« western frontier districts announce that the Servian army it advancing upon this citj. Prince Alexander hat received from the Sultan a replj to bit request for aid! The Porte declines to.assist Bulgaria, and points out that Alexander's violation ef the treaty" of Berlin encouraged the Servians to invade Bulgaria. . Belgbadk, November 17. Advices from the Servian army in Bulgaria state that the troops have gained a number of victories over the Bulgarians. the forces of the Bulgarians were totall/ routed and the town of Tru taken. In theiiierth western frontier an engagement was fought. Three of the Bulgarian volunteer battalions, stationed on the Timok, yielded. A battle also took plate yesterday at a poiat between Koula and Widdin, the Bulgarians being defeated with great less. Upwards of one thousand prisoners were taken by the Servians. LoxDoir. November 15. The number of Servian treops in the field is 107,000 men. November 16. In consequence of the tnrn affairs have now taken in regard to. the Boumelian. complication, the Vienna Press, predict war between Austria and Bussia. Greece rejects the proposal for the restoration of the atatiu quo ante. London, November 17, Intelligence is to hand that the town of Kola has been captured by the Servians, after a stubborn resistance on the part of the Bulgarians, who are now retreating to Widdin. Twenty thousand Koumelian troops are marching to Sofia to assist the Bulgarians.