THE BALKANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 30, 4 February 1913, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

BULGARIANS IN TRAINING. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright., (United Press Association.) Paris, February 3. A Bulgarian, officer at Chataldja has written to a comrade at St. Ayr, and states that they are immobilised indefinitely, but ordered to keep in training and occupy themselves manoeuvring and target-shooting. The generals are setting an example by organising matches. The men’s entire leisure is devoted to rifle-firing, gun practice and marching.-. The chief business is to avoid getting the men bored by compulsory inaction. AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS. Constantinople, February 2. The delegates have been ordered to remain in London until the resumption of hostilities. Similarly the troops have been ordered not to fire until the Bulgarians adopt the offensive. r READY TO GO ON. Sofia, February 3. During the armistice the Bulgarians and Servians have sown their winter wheat southwards of the Balkans. The adults will now be able to continue the war, inasmuch as the women, children and elderly men will suffice to garner the harvest. The German Minister is urging the Government not to participate in the hostilities with Turkey. IMPROVED RELATIONS. Vienna, February 3. The Emperor Franz Josef having sent Prince Gottfried Hohonhloe with an autograph letter to the Czar is interpreted as a symptom of improved relations. THE CHATALDJA ARMY. Constantinople, February 3. Izzet Pasha commanded General Yemen, who has the reputation of being the best strategist and tactician in the Turkish army, now at Habemkeui, to finally instruct 120,000 effectives at Chataldja. SHORT OF MONEY. The Porte’s efforts to secure a two and a half million loan from the Deutsche Bank and a million elsewhere have failed. The Government will rely on internal subscriptions. Shevket Pasha, though poor, sent £IOOO. ADRIANOPLE IN STRAITS. The Committee of National Defence and members of the last Cabinet state that Adriaiiople will fall in a few days unless the garrison eats horses and dogs. ALLEGED ATROCITIES. Salonika, February 2. Indignation is expressed against Pierre Loti for stating in a book that officers of the cruiser Bruix saw Greek and Servian soldiers gouge out the eyes cf Turkish prisoners. MACEDONIA’S THANKS, Athens, February 2. ' It is semi-officially stated that the Macedonian Committees are sending a cordial address, thanking the Government for their treatment, and for the fact that their land had not been confiscated. TURKISH FOURTH ARMY CORPS DEFEATED. (Received 9.40 a.m.) Paris, February 3. Matin’s Constantinople correspondent states that Circassian cavalary defeated the fourth army corps commanded by a Young Turk, General Torghut Pasha. There were heavy losses on both sides. FIGHTING OVER POLITICAL SPEECH. Pacificists at Hadem Keui prevented Enver Bey and Fethi Bey delivering a political speech. A fight ensued, resulting in several fatalities. Enver Bey and Fethi Bey fled to Constantinople.