THE BALKAN WAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 20 November 1912, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR

DRILLING TURKS INTO ORDER RAVAGES OF CHOLERA. G'HATALDEJA HOLDING OUT. SULTAN APPEALS TO THE POWERS.

(Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 19. Corresixindents at Hadem-Keui state that Nazim Pasha is drilling some sort of order into the Turks, but the morale of the forces is doubtful, and it is impossible to arouse enthusiasm.

The Asiatic .reservists are in permanent work, and are armed with heavy Krupps.

One hundred and sixty thousand Turks are distributed around HademKeui, with, their flanks defended by lakes and swamps. The Bulgarians, in forcing HademKeui, must cross the road on an undulating plain.

The weather is abnormally hot and enteric is prevalent.

Tho oholera patients are horded at Duma, and are surrounded with barbed wire.

These precautions, however are proving futile, as outside victims are wandering into gardens and fields and dying on the roadside. Soldiers, maddened with thirst, arc drinking water infected by the corpses.

Only a few shots were fired at Cbataldeia yesterday. If the cholera has not attacked the. forts, the resistance will easily last "or weeks. Turkish accounts show that Muktar Pasha's division attacked and broke the Bulgarians formation, capturing a number of gnns. The Turks lost heavily. ; Official circles are more optimistic of the ability to hold Chatnlde.ia, boin,<r encouraged by reports of cholera and typhus ravages in the Bxilgarians' ranks.

It-i« reported that the Sultan has appealed to tho Sovereigns of various •Powers, requesting their mediation. Albanian residents have petitioned the Foreign Embassies, requesting tho Powers to secure for them autonomy.

aRNAUTS RAVAGING THE COUNTRY. A REPORT DENIED. (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) VIENNA, November 19. Tfc is reported that Zekki Pasha and Fethi Pasha (late Minister at Belgrade) with a band of Arnauts. seized the rifles of many fleeing Turks, and captured mountain guns. Other Turks bartered their magadine rifles for bread.

The Amauts arc ravaging tho cfimitry and the .Servians are endeavouring to capture them. It is officially denied that ihe Consuls at Prizrend and Mitiovit:-..i ha.-e been subjected to annoyance.

THE ALtIEvS AND AUSTRIA

AUTONOMY OF ALBANIA

(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.)

BUDAPEST, November 19,

The Berchtold Delegation has no reason to doubt that the Balkan States' havo appreciated and considered the high importance of establishing sound relations with Austria. The conversation with, M. Daneff confirmed this. Italy and Austria have agreed upon Albania's autonomy.

ALES.SIO OCCUPIED. (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) CKTTINJE, November 19. " It is reported that General Martinovitch has occupied Ale-ssioJ

DISCUSSING PEACE TERMS

THE SERVIAN DEMANDS

(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) SOFIA, November 19.

Cabinet is discussing the terms of peace. Servia insists upon acquiring part of the Albanian coast, with Durazzo.

LANDING OF BLUEJACKETS. (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 19

Bluejackets to the number of 3300, representing, various v nationalities, with;, maxims, have been, landed at Pera.

ALLEGED SERVIAN ATROCITIES. AUSTRIAN CONSUL BAYONETTED POPULATION SHOT IN THE STREETS.

(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) VIENNA, November 19. The treatment accorded tho Consuls and the uncertainty for the safety of M. Prochaska, the Austrian Consul at Prizrend, is creating irritation against. Servia. M.< Pasies refused to permit an Austrian official to visit. Prizrend to investigate. M. Berchtold is pressing the right to communicate with a diplomatic re-

pre'senthtive. According to an Albanian account, the Servians' threatened to fire a shell into the Austrian Consulate at Prizrend unless they were admitted. M. Proschaska yielded. The Servians found the courtyard packed with Albanian women and children refugees. They converted the place into a veritable sliambles. They afterwards burst open M. Proschaka's room, and after a struggle, bayonetted him in the thigh. His present whereabouts is unknown.

The .Reichspost says tzhe fugitive Albanian leader Koldilia states that' tlie Servians who are occupying Prizrend shot the population in tho streets with machine-guns, killing Jl men, 35 women and ten children.

CAPTURES BY GREEKS. (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) ATHENS, November If). The villages on the Kussandra Peninsula have been occupied hy the Greeks, together with the tovms of Poligyras and Landos. A detachment of Cretans killed a hundred members of a Turco-Albanian hand, which committed depredations at Epinis.