TROUBLE FOR TURKEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 5

TROUBLE FOR TURKEY.

UP AGAINST THE POWERS. A GRAVE POSITION. [By Electric Teleghadh — Copyright] [Uniter Press Association.] Paris, August 19. Turkish advices state that Enver Bey commands 400,000 troops. Resides defending Adri,ample, lie I contemplates extensive operations j westward of the Maritza River. London, August 19. A Reuter message states that Turkey’s decision to remain in Adrianople is unalterable. The Government’s existence is bound up with the city’s fate. ; Turkey awaits the future calmly, j though there is no attempt to minimise j Iho gravity of the situation. Constantinople, August 19.

The withdrawal of two Russian cruisers from the Bosphorus is supposed to indicate an admonition to Turkey that the Powers’ will must be respected, and signifies Russia’s desire to co-operate with the other Powers, especially Franco and England, to maintain an Ot.fcoman-Asiatic Empire and a European Empire, on the basis indicated in the Powers’ Note. The newspaper Jeuno Tore believes that the departure is connected with (he Sevastopol manoeuvres. The Grand Vizier denies that the Turks are advancing on Lumuljina or Dedeagatch. Ho admits the occupation of the right bank of the Maritza. River and Hemotica.

TURKEY MUST YIELD. (Received 9.0 a.ra.) Spfia, August 19. The Government has been reassured that the Powers are using concerted measures to compel Turkey to observe the Treaty of London. Roumania has promised to complete the evacuation of Bulgaria by August 23, indemnify the population for losses, and hand over the railways to-morrow. COMMISSION ON ATROCITIES. London, August 19. Dr. Butler, president of the Columbia University, is organising an international commission to enquire into the atrocities during the second Balkan war. The commission meets at Paris shortly. - “SLAYER OF THE BULGARIANS!” . > (Received 11.5 a.m.) Athens, August 19. Fervent enthusiasm was displayed at-King Constantine’s entry into the city. The streets were thronged with people crying “Long live Constantine, slayer of the Bulgarians!”