THE BALKANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 3 January 1913, Page 6

THE BALKANS.

THE ALLIES’ DEMANDS,

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 2: M. Venizelos presided at the conference. Tho Turks agreed to the Allies’ demand that all negotiations should he conducted en bloc. The Turks stated that as Crete was cordial with the Powers it would be admissible to seek their opinion before arriving at a decision. The Allies insisted that Turkey should relinquish her rights to Crete, adding that perhaps later the Allies would address tho Powers on the subject. The Turks suggested that as tho regions belonged to Asia Minor they were unable to cede the Allies’ demands for cession. Tho Allies also declared that tho Turks must prepare a definite map of the Turko-Bnlgarian frontier. Roshid Pasha- intimated that they would seek fresh instructions on tho various points. When the Ambassadors’ Conference resumes it will discuss tho three projects for tho delimitation of Albania propounded by the Balkans, Russia, and Austria. The latter’s widely diverges from the others. The ‘Daily Telegraph’s’ Constantinople correspondent states that there is an impression in certain circles that a direct Turko-Bulgarian understanding exists with regard to Macedonian autonomy, the object being to deprive Greece of Salonika and permit Bulgaria to become master of Mocedonia later. GREEKS AND TURKS FIGHTING. Athens, January 2. The Greeks repulsed further Turkish attacks. An artillery duel is progressing. FRESH WARLIKE ACTIVITY. (Received 9.40 a.m.) Vienna, January 2. There is great military activity in Turkey. Over 6000 fresh troops arc camped in the vicinity of Constantinople. Largo naval orders for ammunition have been placed in Germany. Sorvia is also active, 80,000 having been summoned for service. DISTINGUISHED VOLUNTEER KILLED. Athens, January 2. Palmer Nowbould, a member of the Balkans Committee, was killed while fighting at Bizani as a volunteer. ADRIANOPLE FOR TURKEY. —_ 1 (Received 11.10 a.m.) London, January 2. M. Daniff, interviewed, said Adrianoplo and the Aegean Islands must ho surrendered, arid unless to-morrow’s conference was in accordance with the Allies’ terms, negotiations would he broken off. M-. Roshid, interviewed, said that 'Turkey had’'abandoned'’enormous territory, hut because she was beaten, she did not intend to abandon Adrianople and tho Aegear^s. BOOTY FOR GREECE.

(Received 8.10 a.'m.) Berlin, January 2,

The ‘Frankfurter Zeitung’s’ Constantinople correspondent states that the Crown Prince of Greece has required the Ottoman Bank at Salonika to hold at his disposal the revenues of the Ottoman public debt, explaining that he will claim the surplus as booty. The Public Debt Commissioner is protesting.

30,000 BUTCHERED. CHRISTIANS RUTHLESSLY SLAIN IN ADRIANOPLE. (Independent Cable Association.) Boston, December 23. A frightful story of Moslem barbarity in Adrianoplo is told in the ‘Globe,’ which publishes a letter written by a Turkish officer with the Adrianoplo army to an American friend. As soon as war was declared, says’ the letter, “the commanding officer at Adrianoplo gave orders that all Christians should bo killed. A wholesale butchery was at commenced, and 30,000 men, women and children were put to death. “When it became known that the Bulgarians were advancing on the town, the people wore thrown into a mad panic. There was no way of escape. The railways wore monopolised by the military trains, and the roads were impassable owing to the heavy rains. Thousands of terror-stricken men, women and children thronged the streets, their arms filled with their dearest household valuables, hurrying to tho different churches for sanctuary. Many wore demented with fear, and ran about tho streets almost naked.

“A HELL OF LUST.”

“Suddenly the rumour spread that the Moslem garrison in Adrianoplo had turned on the Christians, and were butchering all indiscriminately. The panic-stricken wretches became frenzied. Night come on and the city was a hell of lust and butchery. The death shrieks of thousands of hapless women and children, and the savage yells of their murderers, combined in a frightful roar which a thousand infuriated tigers could not imitate. “A crowd of 50 girls from a cigarette factory were surrounded by the Turkish soldiers, who had worked themselves in a maniacal frenzy. The girls prayed for mercy, but were hewn down with knives and swords and brained with the butt-ends of rillcs. “AN ORGY OF SLAUGHTER.”

“The outlying parts of the city were completely devastated, Moslem non-combatants joining in with the troops in the orgy of slaughter. • “Fires broke out in places, and hun-

dreds of Grooks and Macedonian Christians were ruthlessly driven into tiie liarnes. “in the morning tho streets were strewn with dead. Long processions of carts were needed to carry away the bodies, and hundreds were thrown into tho flooded river and washed away.” Similar stories of ruthless murder in tho country round Adrianople are told. A .body of 1100 farm hands, Macedonian- Christians, were taking refuge in tho city, but were mot by Turkish troops and butchered to a man in full view of the authorities.