THE BALKAN WAR.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 510, 19 October 1912, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR.

TURKEY DECLARES WAR. ON SERVIA AND BULGARIA. liy Constantinople, Thursday. Turkey has declared war on Servia and Bulgaria. GREEK GUNBOATS IN ACTION. London, Thursday. Two Greek gunboats which were subjected to heavy firing from the fortress of Preveza, forced a passage to the Gulf of Arta. ALL STATES INVOLVED. MONTENEGRIN SUCCESSES. London, Thursday. Tho Balkan States have issued a memorandum in which it is stated that owing to the recall of Turkish Ministers the allies have decided to announce war by royal proclamation, ! which is expected to-day. Turkish interests in Bulgaria have been entrusted to Germany. Tho Reicbepust states that tho Catholic Albanians are siding with the Montenegrins out of gratitude for the hospitaliy of Malissori to refugees. Tho brutality of Essad Pasha's troops lias goaded the clans further south to revolt. The Turks burned and pillaged everything and ravished anil murdered four girls, whereupon the clansmen butchered Easad Pasha's rearguard. BERANA CAPTURED. London, Thursday. The Montenegrins have captured the frontier town of Berana. They took seven hundred prisoners and captured fourteen big guns. Na>;im Pasha Commander-in-Chief of tho Turkish army, goes to Adrianople, near (he Bulgarian frontier. The Turks are transporting 10,000 troops a day from Anatolia. Tho Paris and Berlin Bourses are stronger owing to prospects of better Russo-A ustr ian rr■ 1a I ion s. In Vienna tho chief anxiety ia whether the pan-Slavists will out M. Sazonoff, Russia's Foreign Minister. NO WORLD WAR. Berlin, Thursday. Herr Von Kiderlen-Waechter, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a speech at a banquet given last night to the delegates to the Exhibitions Conference, slated that lie was firmly convinced that none of the Slates there represented would lie affected by the events now taking idaco in Southeast Europe. The Powers, he said, had come to an understanding with a view Vjl'confining the disturbances to tho Balkans, and with goodwill on all sides the spread of the conflagration should be prevented. In the case of the necessity arising for clearing the debris and rebuilding on the site of the (ire,, the work, he said, would hi' carried out in a spirit of friendly co-opera-tion. This hope, lu< added, was strengthened by the news that a treaty of peace had been signed iiy llalv and Turkey.