A MONARCH'S MANIFESTO

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 21 October 1912, Page 5

A MONARCH'S MANIFESTO

I IMPRESSIVE CHURCH SERVICE. MOVEMENTS OF BULGARIAN I TROOPS. jCßstjeived Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SOFIA, October 19. . Ferdinand 1., fear of the Bulgarians, in a Manifesto to the nation., says that the war has been declared to maintain the human right of Christians in Turkey. The Bulgarians, it says, are indebted .for their peaceful life to the great Christian Liberator. They had often remembered the Czar Liberator's prophetic words: "The work begun must be completed." The manifesto adds that in the struggle of the Cross against the 1 Crescent, of liberty against tyranny, they were assured of the sympathies of all lovers of justice and progress.

i The Queen, with M. Ivan Gues- | hofF, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Cabinet, and Servian and Greek Ministers, attended an impressive service in the Cathedral, in which prayers were offered for the Czar, and the Sovereigns of Greece, Sorvia and Monte- | negro. The service concluded by ask- , ins? God for justice and mercy, aid to | grant a victory to the united Christ-, ian armies in the Balkans. j Thousands gathered cutside the Cathedral and frequently cheered: There are indications that the three main Bulgarian armies, each consisting of three divisions, have concentrated, against Mustafa, whence the Turks have retreated, leaving 20,000 at Adrianople. The remainder are encamped behind field-works stretching eastwards to Kirkilisse. Besides the destruction of telefrraohs, many miles of. railway between TTsknb and Salonika have been dyna- 1 i mited. Kurtkale, otherwise -Kurtkenikal. U j situated seven miles south-west of i Mustafa.