THE BALKAN WAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 28 November 1912, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR

CABLE NEWS

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INVESTMENT OE ADRIAXOPLE

FLOODS CAUSE DELAY,

SPLENDID MILITARY METHODS

(Received Last- Night, 10 o'clock.)

LONDON, November 27.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Mr Bennett Burleigh has inspected the investment of Adriaavople, and finds that Hoods are causing tho delay. The Bulgarians have gained mueli ground south-east of Arda and Marih;a, and are now tackling the inner lines.

The Turkish forts at Adria-nople will soon be hemmed within- a circle of fi.ro

less than throe miles distant,

Mr Burleigh says that the Bulgarian military methods would rejoice the heart of Viscount Kitchener.

Roads and bridges have been made to facilitate transport. Signposts are erected everywhere. Food is abundant, sonp, meat, and vegetables being distributed twice daily.

The camps are clean and well-plac-ed, and the troops snug under canvas. The Dig-outs have provided secure quarters for the gunners, and'for the men in the firing lines, there are an enormous number of trenches. The Bulgarians, with fine daring, have pushed the skirmishes to within five hundred yards of the Turkish position.

There were many instances of the troops crawling forward and employing the earthworks shelter as rifle posts, in similar manner that they were employed by the Japanese in Manchuria. Here and there Turkish shells had made holes eight feet deep and fifteen feet wide.

of empty cartridges were to be seen, otherwise. there were no signs of a fight having occurred.

Even the dead horses had been interred immediately.

RUSSIA'S DIGNITY

NOT BEING UPHELD

DEMONSTRATIONS STOPPED

(Received Last Night, 10.25 o'clock.)

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 27,

Indignation is growing at the alleged lack of virility in upholding Russia's military dignity. The constant denials of military precautions have given an impression, of pusillanimity. The police are stopping demonstrations in favour of the Balkan Allies.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

GERMAN DIES FROM CHOLERA.

PITIABLE CONDITION OF REFUGEES.

(Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.

The negotiations are being conducted in a saloon carriage, to suit Adbul Hamid.

. The delegates have ordered their respective staffs to delimit the neutral ■ zone between the armies during lie ' negotiations. ,

Two Turkish aeroplanes are reconnoitre ing Chataldeja and Buovollar. j A German war correspondent is the first European to die from cholera. Appeals are being issued for funds , for the Turkish refugees. J Pitiable accounts are told. !

Two hundred thousand refugees, including barefooted "women, ca.rr t ying infants, are tramping the country.

1 ' Three doctors of the British Red Cross Society are working in the San Stefano camp, where the mortality is decreasing. The outbreak of cholera there is not the most maligant form of the disease. 20,000 TURKISH PRISONERS. SERVIAN CASUALTIES. WOODEN BULLETS FOUND .ON BATTLEFIELD. (Received Last Night, 11.25 o'clock.) BELGRADE, November 28. , len thousand Turks were captured sit Monastir, and further detachments are surrendering daily. Tho Servian casualties, including those at Monastir, aggregate 20,000.

William LeQuex, the novelist, states that he found Turkish wooden bullets on Macedonian battlefields. War correspondents at Kumanovo report that they discovered cases of wooden cartridges, which wore really intended for manoeuvres.