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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 July 1913, Page 5

Petersburg. The Servian. General Staff states that when the Bulgars w&r& retread irig to the Zletovska river on July Ist, envoys requested the Servians to cease hostilities. One bearing a cross bade the Servian Colonel kisg the cross, as tihe fighting between brothers had ended. The Colonel complied, believing that an armistice had been concluded. Meanwhile the Bulgarians got five field batteries and two batteries of Howitzers—*one a heavy battery—across the river, without warning, and opened fire on the whole Servian line, decimating one regiment. AN OUTSPOKEN NOTE. BULGARIA REMINDED OF A PRIOR WARNING. • (Received July 12, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jtfly 11. '" Rumania, in an outspoken Note to Bulgaria, dclares that sQie ha g already warned.her that if war, broke out amongst; the Allies Rumania take action, and that Bulgaria ted replied. Moreover, Rumania states, Bulgtria had attacked Servia without giving Rumania the customary notification ; hence .Rumania's army had \ I been ordered to enter Bulgaria. Sim- ! ultaneously, Rumania intimated that she intended participating in. the discussion regarding the fnal partition of 'Turkish) territory. . ': SOFIA, July lilt is semi-officially stated that Rumania presented a Note at the precise moment when Russian meditaton was on the point of ending the war. Bulgaria therefore did not offer military resistance. The Rumanian MW ister leaves ihere to-morrow. BERLIN, July 11. It is stated in well-informed circles that the Rumanians do not-in? tend to advance on Sofia, but merely to occupy Silistria> AN ATTACK THAT FAILED. BULGARS BEATEN AT SEVERAL POINTS. (Received- Julv 'l2, 11 a.m.) BELGRADE, July. 11. Fifteen thousand Bulgarians attacked Zaicher, and 40,000 attempted to invade Servia, via Gadibagoz and St. Nicholas, near Kinashevatz. sThe Bulgariana . were beaten at .several points, and retired yesterday, precipitately. The Bulgarian General Kunchiach failed to maintain touch between ohe columns, and the Bulgarians were thrown into inextricable confusion, resulting in a. debacle. Five thousand Bulgarians were'killed or wounded. RUMANIA OCCUPIES SILISTRIA. (Received July 12, 12.20 p.m.) BUCHAREST, July 11. The Rumanians have occupied Silistria, unopposed. BULGARIAN ROUT COMPLETE. (Received Julv 12, 12.20 p.m.) ATHENS, July 11. The Bulgarian rout, including General Ivanoff's command, wa& complete. The Greeks have occupied Demirhissir. They captured fifty-eight guns in various districts.