THE BALKAN WAR

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 80, 27 November 1912, Page 8

THE BALKAN WAR

DISEASE DUES ITS WORK

CHOLERA SPREADING

BULGARIAN REPULSE

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (United Press Association.)

London, November 26. The Daily News’ correspondent at Somlin, Hungary, reports that cholera is spreading in the north, and has reached Bulgaria. News is being strictly censored, hut there are several hundred cases. At Mustaph Pasha, whore the sanitary hospital arrangements are dangerously inadequate, a school has been converted into a hospital. Many victims are lying on the iloor. The corpses of ten have not been touched for 24 hours. At Mar.tza the water is contaminated, and cholera is raging. The Turks repulsed every attempt to hold Rapastepe, displaying desperate gallantry. They won back much ground, especially on the right ol Maritza, where General K.irkofl’s seventh division retired four miles and left the bank, where the Servians sustained heavy losses. The Bulgarian infantry on Thursday, after a fierce fight, entered Karagaelv, a suburb of Adrianople. Street lighting ensued, and the Bulgarians were forced to retire. The correspondent: estimates that there were twelve' thousand Bulgarian and Servian casualtier at Adrianople. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent at Durazzo reports that the Servians are preparing to cross the rivei Matja in boats, en route to attack Durazzo, whither the Servians victorious at Mona stir are also marching.

ADRIANOPLE’S SIEGE.

THE TOWN’S INVESTMENT,

Adrianople, November 26. Including the Servian besiegers, the Bulgarian regulars sent to Chataldja and the Servians third-class reservist: are maintaining the investment of tin town. The Servians are indignant at the censorship, which docs not permit mention by them of their largest guns, 15 centimetres, being hopelessly outranked by the Turkish batteries.

A DIFFICULT SITUATION.

EUROPE DOES NOT WANT WAR

(Received 11 a.m.) London, November 26. Embassies in London deprecate p* s simism, although the situation is admittedly difficult. The Powers are working together for peace,'and consider war would be criminal and insane, and that nobody wants it. Lugland has done much to unite tJu Powers, who endorse her attitude. Berlin, November 26. Prince Henry of Prussia visits Eng land next week. A more hopeful feeling is prevalent. The Kaiser has in cluced Austria to_consent to a conference on the Adriatic and '■ Albanian questions. Sofia, November 26. As a precaution against cholera no more wounded are brought into the city.

FIGHTING THE CHOLERA.

ADRIANOPLE’S POSITION

STUMBLING BLOCK TO PEACE,

WHERE RESPONSIBILITY LIES

Received 10.40 a.m.)

Constantinople, November 26. Philip,, who was one of Roosevelt’s rough riders, failing to get the Foreign Red Crescent Society to undertake the work of dealing with cholera at San Stofano, formed a small body of volunteers to assist Miss Alt, who began the work without waiting for others. The Rev. Mr Frew, a Scottish clergyman, has joined the band, and several Turkish Red Crescent doctors are now organising cholera camps. Vast shelters are being erected, and the majority of the dead have ;1 ready been buried in shallow trencho.covered with quicklime. Adrianople is regarded as the stumbling block in the negotiations for peace. The Bulgarians insist on its capitulating, and the Turks determinedly oppose. Sti Petersburg, November 26. ' The Minister for Foreign Affairs states tho reports published in the “Neneste Machrichten” and the “Frankfurter Zeitung,” in reference to Russia’s alleged hostile intentions towards neighbouring States,_ and iegarding her military preparations, are entirely untrue.

Belgrade, November 26,

In official circles while the position is regarded ns critical, it is declared the responsibility for the situation has been shipped to _ St. Petersburg and Vienna. A semi-official paper—the “Samrnonprava”—discusses the Prochaska case in conciliatory language towards Austria.

YOUNG TURKS EXILED.

LOOKING FOR AN ASSASSIN

(Received 27, 11.50 a.m.) London, November 26. Four hundred Young Turks have been exiled at Konish. The police are searching for a member of the Committee of Union and Progress, who undertook to assassinate the Sultan, and other prominent private individuals.