THE BALKAN WAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 15 November 1912, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR

TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER OF TURKS. A FRIGHTFUL CONFUSION. SORTIE AT ADIUAXOPLE. (Received List Night, 10.10 o'clock.) VIENNA, November 14. Nehil Bey, Commander of the Turkish reserve in the last Adrianoplo sortie, was captured. Ho gives a vivid description of the assault. Fourteen battalions which were participating lay for hours on a pitch dark night in the wet and mud. They were foodless, excepting for a sma.ll allowanco of biscuits. The men were dispirited when advancing, and encountered the Bulgarian outposts in a roadless plain under a raking Artillery fire. Some of the detachments lost touch and a frightful eon fusion followed. They did not know whether they were fighting the enemy or their own t men. After a two hours' struggle, a retreat began, and developed into an inextricable tnngle. j The Bulgarian lotteries inflicted j terrible slaughter. Nehil Bey was wounded by a splinter from a shell. He eulogised the Bulgarians' chiviiltous treatment of the wounded.

IMPROVED OUTLOOK. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE BUOYANT. (Received November 11, 1.5 p.m.) . LONDON, November 13. The Stock Exchange is buoyant, owing to the improved Balkan outlook. The Continental Bourses are similarly buoyant. Consols are now at £7l 17s Gd.

| AT A STANDSTILL. OPERATION'S AT CHATALDEJA. ! (Received November 2 p.m.) CONSTANTfNOPLE, Nov. 13. | Operations at Ohataldeja. are at a 'standstill, partly because negotiations 'for an armistice are proceeding direct with the Bulgarians. It is believed the Porte will negotiate with Bulgaria for terms of peace.

ENGLISH PRESS OX THE BALKAN OUTLOOK. GERMAN PAPERS OPINION. | (Received November 11. 9 a.m.) i LONDON, November 13. The newspapers arc more optimistic. They believe that isolated questions arising in the Balkans will bo j postponed. ■- The Times says Mr Asquith's remarkable speech has had a calming effect rarely attained by the words even of a Prime Minister. BERLIN, November 13. The Berliner Tageblatt says an amicable solution of the trouble is in sight. Servia is willing to consider the matter of the possession of an Albanian port connected with Servia by mean's of a neutral railway through an autonomous Albania. VIENNA. November 13. Anstrn-Hungary has formulated its demands with respect to Senna? 1 find intends to press them. BELGRADE, November 13. General Yankocitch is marching I'2R miles through inhospitable country occupy Durazzo (52 miles south cf Skutari), Servia believing the Powers would mdro'readily sanction its acquisition by Servi:> if an army previously occupied it. DESPERATE SORTIE.

FROM ADRTANOPLE. - (Received November 14, 9 a.m.) SOFIA, November 13. It, is semi-officially stated that the Adrianople garrison made a desperate sortie orrTuesday, but that after five hours' severe fightine; it was driven back with heavy losses. FIERCE FIHGTING ,AT CHATALDEJA. (Received November 11. 12.35 p.m.) VIENNA, November 13. The Reichspost says the principal attack on Chataldeja was delayed for two days owing to heavy rain hampering the arrival of heavy artillery and reinforcements from- Adrianople. Then fighting began fiercely. A Turkish officer ' captured in the sortie from Adrianople states that the Bulgarian artillery fire was so unbearable that sorties were undertaken to relieve the nervous strain.

DEFENCE OF TOE CAPITAL. REGARDED AS HOPELESS. (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 14. A Constantinople telegram states that tlio Council, of Waj- has decided that the defence of the Capital is hopeless. The Novoe Vremya says that Rus-

sian troops which are ordinarily disbanded. in the middle of November are remaining with the colours until the middle of January. CAPTURE OF FORTS. AT ADRIANOPLE. ' (Received This Morning, 1 o'clock.) SOFIA, November 14. ! The .recent fighting resulted in the cipture of four important forts outside Adrianople. BOAT SWAMPED. FORTY-FOUR SOLDIERS DROWNED. BUCHAREST. November 14. A boat, with forty-nino soldiers aboard was swamped at Calarhi. and foity-fonr of the number were drowned.