A TURKISH DEFEAT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 81, 12 April 1913, Page 5

A TURKISH DEFEAT.

EXPELLED TO THE COAST.

BY BULGARIAN ARTILLERY EIRE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.! 'A Turkish company landed south of the village of Xastero on Monday, under cover of the warships’ guns, and advanced on the village of Yayos, eight miles westward of Biju Achekmtdj, with tiie object of attacking the .Bulgarians’ rear. The latter replied with heavy artillery fire, and then a battalion of infantry annihilated the Turks and expelled them completely to the coast. London, April 11. The Daily Telegraph’s Belgrade correspondent says that, yielding to Russia’s advice, Servia will withdraw her troops from Scutari.

Sofia, April 11. • Bulgaria is prepared to advise the acceptance or the Powers’ proposals. Athens, April 11.

Greece has remonstrated at the Hamidieh’s repeated passages of the Canal, which it is alleged are for obtaining provisions for Alexandria, and against the chartering of colliers as a dangerous precedent. The Hamidieh is now in the Red Sea, A ROYAL CAPTURE. Cettinje, April 11. It is semi-pfficially stated that the international squadron captured King Nicholas’s yacht Roumania, off Anti vari, escorting three merheantmen laden with flour. BULGARIAN COMPENSATION. (Received 10.0 a.m.) * Vienna, April 11. The Neue Freie Presse says that England and the Triplise advocate that Salonika should he given to Bulgaria as compensation for Silistria. Russia and France favour the cessation of Salonika to Greece. Belgrade, April 11. It is announced that Bulgaria is formally claiming Salonika, and is taking military measures to support the claim.

GREECE’S ARMY. Greece, is concentrating her army on the railway from Salonika.to Salma nli. There are many .reports that the Servian army has abandoned the attack on Scutari. RUSSIA AND MONI'EN EGRO KING NICHOLAS’ BROKEN TROTH (Received S.O a.m.) ‘ St. .Petersburg, April II The Foreign Minister has issued a statement dealing with the Ambassadors’ Conference. The Balkan negotiations having preserved Diakova,„ Pribrona, Ipek, and Debra for the Slavs, Russia thought it was necessary to cor.Ccde Scutari to Albania in order to conserve peace, the rupture of which for the sake of Skutari, would be absurd. The town was purely Albannm, and the seat of the Catholic Archbi diop, and Montenegro would be. weakened by the influx of 100,000 men fnreig i to their religion, blood, and language. Moreover, King Nicholas broke the understanding not to enter the war without Russia’s consent, and he advised him to desist opposing the Powers. His resistance showed that he had based his calculations with the object of eiphroiling Russia in a European war.