THE BALKAN WAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 12 November 1912, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR

SEEVIA'S DETERMINATION. THE AUSTRIAN POLICY. HOLY WAR NOT COUNTENANCED. (Received Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.) LONDON, November 11. The Daily Mail's Constantinople correspondent confirms the lack of preparations for the defence of Chataldja. Ho says that a mere rabble was defending the place. Other correspoifdents attribute the Bulgarian delay to a desire to await the Greeks and Servians, in order to enter Stamboul together. It is also said that Servia is determined to reach a seaport, before negotiating for o settlement conjointly with tho Allies.

The Daily Mail's Vienna correspondent states that Germany is endeavouring to moderate the Austrian policy in Albania. Tlie Daily Chronicle's Constantinople correspondent says that the Tur- j kish Government will not counten-' .inee a Holy War, as it is no longer in accordance with enlightened Moslem feeling. It is now sta'ted that Field-Marshal Fuad Pafcha, and General Bahri Pasha nre commanding the Turks at Chataldja. TO APPEASE AUSTRIA. GERMANY ENGAGED. (Received Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.) BERLIN, November 11. Herr Kiderlin-HVaehter, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is engaged in an attempt to discover a formula designed to appease Austria and SerVKI, !

STIRRING UP THE THE MOSLEMS. L\ T THE WEST INDIES. (Received Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.) THE HAGUE, November 11. The Netherlands Minister at Constantinople announces that Mohammedan emissaries have been despatched to the Dutch West Indies to stir up the Moslems there.

MILITARY GOVERNOR SHOT. FOR INCITING A GARRISON TO MASSACRE CHRISTIANS. (Received Last Night, 11.50 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 11. An unconfirmed report has reached Constantinople to the effect that General Menidouh Bey, Military Governor at Constantinople, has been court-marshalled and shot for inciting a garrison to massacre Christians and restore Abd.nl Hmnid, the deposed Sulta.n, to the throne. The Porte, 011 learning that 2000 Kurds were 611 tho warpath, invited them to a religious service in the mosque at St. Sophia, and subsequently sent them to tho front.

TERRIBLE LOSSES. ESTIMATED AT 150,000. . | (Received This.Morning, 12.15 o'clock.) PARIS, November 11. Advices from the Balkans: co'nfirm the terrible lossesvin recent bit-ties. The total casualties,, inclusive of both sides, during the war are esti- 1 mated at 150,000. i THIRTY-SIX HOURS' FIGHTING. ■ ' j TURKS CLAIM A VICTORY. | (Received November 11 r 8.10 a.m.) | CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 10. The Vali of Adrianople reports a thirty-six hours'' violent bittle. end- j ing on Friday in a Turkish victory, which,"he says, is destined to be re-" garded as one of the most brilliant feats in Ottoman history. The Bulgarians retreated in disorder before the Turkish bayonet charges. Quantities of rifles and ammunition were captured. ' • The Turks are landing troops as i ; ist as possible at Tidia to reiiiTorce Shefket Torqut Pasha. Fugitive Turkish troops massacred | many of ,the inhabitmts of .Silivri (a seaport town on the Sea of Marmora, 36 miles west of Constantinople), which was almost completely burnt. VIENNA, November 10. The Bulgarians are taking special precautions. Bashi-Bazouk bands are raiding Adrianople district. . The most vulnerable part of the Chataldja system is the northernmost, inasmuch as the forts there are lower, single, and more widely set, tho northernmost being four miles from the sea, leaving an expanse of sand which is possibly traversable. Tho Bulgarian Third Army is closing in. SOFIA, November 10. Many Bulgarians were wounded when assaulting Kartaltepe and Papaztepe. It is reported that, the Turks are withdrawing'to the smaller inner forts. They left nearly a thousand dead behind them. CONQUERED I)ISTRICTS. SCHEME FOR ADMINISTRATION. (Received November 11, 0 num.) SOFIA. November 10. A committee, composed of heads of Government Departments and former Bulgarian Consuls in Turkey, have prepared a scheme for tho adininis-

tration of the conquered districts. ATTACK ON CHATALDJA. ITS ENERGETIC PROSECUTION. (Received November 11, 8.35 a.m.) ( VIENNA, November 10. | The newspaper Rcichspost says the ( att.ick on Chataldja is being energetically prosecuted. The Bulgarians are engaged in forcing tho main positions, consisting of several lanes one behind the other. The Turks aj'O lighting unevenly. BULGARS CAPTURE KAVALA. ALSO ANOTHER. TOWN. (Received November 11, 9.10 a.m.) SOFIA, November 10. It is reported that the Bulgarians have captured Kavala, in the province of Drama. The lurks, unable to escape, surrendered. The Bulgarians have also captured Gnmurjina, at tho foot of tho Rhodope Mountains, 70 miles south-west by west of Adrianople. THE. FIGHTING AT CHORLU. FURTHER DETAILS. GREAT ANIMOSITY SHOWN.. (Received November 11, 9.5 a.m.) •© VIENNA, November 10. Detuls of the fighting at Chorlu shown that corpses and wau material, still dam tho river. There was bitter fighting at close quarters in the forest northward of Chorlu. The animosity was suoli that men threw awviy their weapons and sprang at one another's throats. The artillery decimated tho Turks, who are fleeing from Stranja to Kapakli I Bunar.

INDIGNANT SERVIAN DENIAL. AFTER THE FALL OF USKUB. (Received November 11. 0.30 a.m.) BELGRADE, November 10. A semi-official statement indignantly denies the German allegation that Servians massacred Albanians,-.and declares that "foreign correspondents are.' able to interview -md testify as to the humane treatment of Turkish and Albanian patients 'in the hospitals.

The Turks, after th£ fall of Uskub, were driven from Kuprili towards Tetovo and Gostivar, 81 miles from Uskub,'where they mule a determined stand, with twenty battalions and artillery, in the defence • of Dibra, north-westward of Gostivar. Finally the Servians drove the enemy in headlong flight, capturing their guns. The struggle at Prilcp, 24 miles north north-east of Monastir, resembled that at Kumanovo. Although the Servian's were moro. numerous their task was difficult, the narrowness of their advancing lines handicapping them terribly. The Turks were entrenched in an unassailable mountain pass, and the Servians were unable to deploy. They brought only one' 1 b'attery into action. The Turks, protected from the Servian's terrible shrapnel .fire, fought bravely and stubbornly until ..they were driven out at the point of the bayonet.

SERBS' LOSSES. (Received November 11, 9.40 a.m.) BELGRADE, November 10. Tho Servians, have entered Salonika with the Greeks. Tho Servians' .casualties at Prilep totalled 2500 and the Turkish 6000.

CAPTURE OF DIBRA. REPORTED SURRENDER. OF MONASTIR, (Received November 11, (1.30 p.m.) BELGRADE. November 10. The Servians have captured'-Dibra, 54 miles north west of Monastir. ■ It is reported that Monastir has. surrendered. Bad roads impede tho advance on Durazzo, 52 miles south of Skutari. SERVIA'S DESIRE FOR A PORT. OFFER THAT CANNOT BE ACCEPTED. (Received November 11, 10 a.m.) BELGRADE, November 10. M. Pasics, the Servian Premier, in an interview, said that Servia must ha'-o a port in the Adriatic. She had been offered an outlet in the Aegean Sea, but would offend her allies if she accepted the offer. NOT FOR MONTENEGRO, (Received November 11, 9 .a.m.) VIENNA. November 10. The Albanian lender Tsmail Kemal. in an interview, said the Albanians would demand their independence. The Malissori were, fighting not for Montenegro, but for independence. ( He added that Albania desired the assistance of Austria and Italy in her I social and economic development.