AFTER THE WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 August 1913, Page 5

AFTER THE WAR.

TURKS OCCUPY A TOWN.

PROTEST TO THE POWERS

(Received Last -Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SOFIA, August 23. The Turks have entered Kirjali. Tlie population is fleeing to the interior. The Government has protested to the Powers.

ATTITUDE OF GREECE. REFUSES TO SURRENDER XANTHI. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) ATHENS, August 23. The Greeks have surrendered Gumuljina, but have not surrendered Xanthi, owing to the Bulgarians' refusal to sign a regular peace protocol.

!'i AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR RESIGNS.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) VIENNA, August 23. It is reported that the Austrian Ambassador at St. Petersburg has resigned. # The newspaper Neue Frei Press hints that the resignation is due to his failure to report the Balkan Alliance of 1912, and) his responsibility for the misunderstanding over the Russian demobilisation communication of March.

THE TURKISH DELEGATION .„ i ' . 4k' FRIENDLY RECEPTION BY GERMANY.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) BERLIN, August 23.

Herr von Stumg, Director of the Political Department of the Foreign Dfflce, in receiving the Turkish deputation in regard to Adrianople, is reported to nave Baid that Germany had always been Turkey's friend, and would not desert her now.

THE TURKISH FLEET

THREATENS TO BOMBARD A TOWN. (Received Last Night, 5.6 o'clock.) SALONIKA, August 23. The Turkish fleet is at Saros, awaiting the Greek evacuation of Dudeagatch. The Admiral warned the Consuls that he will bombard the town in the event "of a Bulgarian entry. ■" . ■

BULGARIAN ATROCITIES DENIED.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SOFIA, August 23. A somi-officia4pt.itement denies the Daily".Telegraph .story about Bulgarian afcrocitk's. ill declares that the report has been invented to alienate European sympathies from Bulgaria. The statement accuses the Greeks of seizing Bulgarian notables, .. burning villages, and robbing the inhabitants. Many of tho notables were killed. It further asserts'£hat the Turks killed most•■of tlio Bulgarian prisoners captnrpd nt KitchukkakvaL

WARSHIPS DESPATCHED. Received This Morning) 12.20 o'clock; CONSTANTINOPLE, August 24. The Powers are sending warships to Dedeagatch.

RUSSIA'S POLICY. PACIFrc YET VIGOROUS. 'Received This Morning; 12.20 o'clock. ROME; August 24. TlraPßussian in an interview, stated that Russia was resolved on a pacific yet vigorous policy to enforce respect of the Treaty of London.