IN A BLAZE!

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1792, 3 July 1913, Page 7

IN A BLAZE!

WAR IN THE BALKANS.

RIVALS AT GRIPS.

DESPERATE FIGHTING ALONG , SERVIA'S FRONTIER. CONFLICTING REPORTS. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, July 1. The Servian Skuptsohina has accepted the Tsar's arbitration. (Rec. July 2, 11.50 p.m.) Belgrade, July 2, After the Skuptschina a.coepted arbitration, the Premier (M. Basics), on behalf of the Government, announced that Servia was at war with Bulgaria. Instructions were sent to the Com-mander-in-Chief to prepare to defend the entire line, because Bulgaria had attacked Servia along her whole frontier. Another message states that tlio Servians had been ordered to maintain the defensive. Tho latest reports are to the effect that Bulgaria has expressed a desire for a peaceful settlement. AN INTIMATION. (Rec. July 2, 11.10 p.m.) Sofia, July 2. Bulgaria has intimated that she is sending representatives to St. Petersburg, A VIOLENT NOTE. FROM GREECE TO BULGARIA. Athens, July 1. Bulgarian troops fired on the Greek destroyer Leon, which !was reconnoitring near Eleftherai. The Greek Government has forwarded, in consequence of this action, a violent Note to Bulgaria l , accusing her of making a fraudulent agreement with others against Greek interests, and also of fraudulently concluding an armistice with Turkey while making secret agreements ivith the Turks. He hotly denounces the recent atrocities against Greeks in Macedonia and Thrace. GREE&E TAKES THE OFFENSIVE. (Rec. July 2, 11.10 p.m.) Berlin, July 2. Greece has notified the Powers that its Macedonian division is talking the offensive, owing to the Bulgarian troops be* jinning a general attack. PILLAGE AND MASSACRE. I (Rec. July 2, 8.55 p.m.) Salonika, July 1. Persistent reports state that' the Bulgarians penetrated into Bogdanza ami massacred women and children. Tho Bulgarians were afterwards captured between two Greek detachments, and a ter;eant and fourteen soldiers were slaughtered. BULGAR TROOPS SURRENDER, Salonika, i July 1. The French Consul at Salonika unsuccessfully appealed to tho Greeks to delay ;heir attack on the Bulgarians for .two lours. The Bulgarian force comprised 1246 regulars and several companies of irregulars. Tho Greeks opened with a heavy rifle, Maxim, and artillery fire, and the Bulgarians replied with rifles and Maxims, resisting the Greeks' attack for thirteen hours, at the end of wliioh they surrendered. DESPERATE FRONTIER FIGHTING. (Rec. July 2, 11.15 p.m.) Belgrade, July 2. The figliting along tho frontier was extremely desperate, ' lasting for thirty hours. i Red-Cross trains have been dispatched to the front. The Crown Prince (Prince George) has gone to llskub. The Servians captured Ishtipa after a severe bombardment. Tho losses were heavy on both sides. Servians also .occupied Kotchani after a sanguinary battle. It is reported that two Bulgarian battalions 1 were captured. Among the sensational stories current in Belgrade is -one to the effeot that the Bulgarians, on the eve of the recenj ; fighting, treacherously killed Majoj : Vasiitch, the commander at Guovgheli , two of his companions, and a number of soldiers. It is semi-officially stated that on IV iday last the First Servian. Army 1 epulsed the Bulgarians along the wfy ,le line, taking Drenek, Petrouchine, 3nd capturing six quick-firers and four if mmunition wagons. Another section of the Servian Aj >my captured Dreveno. After successful 'ft ghting 'at Retkeboukye, the Servians cajj .tured twenty Bulgarian fiftyj jight non-commissioned officers, and f jeven hundred men. ' ■ ■ FIERCE ENCOUNTERS. ' RIFLES AND MACHINE GTJI NS. (Rec. July 2, 11.10 p.m.). Salonika, J! uly 2. Dozens of Greeks, at inachino'gj ins, and thpusands of rillemen opened ,< fire on houses occupied by Bulgarian, , soldiers, The air was thick with flying bj diets. 1 Tho Bulgarians defended valid ntly, and occasionally threw bombs. The, slaughtei inside was terrible. A regular J mttle lasting for an hour took place atj the Grand Hotel before fifty Bulgarians, sf jldiers and comitadjis, who were there, we re forced tc surrender. Elsewhero 6ome' field guns were brought into play, and forty men, who were holding one house,; surrendered; leaving eighty killed and wqj aided, within, Many others were killed if a similar encounters. / The Greek troops at Guf nenja repelled a Bulgarian attack, inflict) ng heavy loss Olio thousand two hundred Greek refugeefrom Gueozheli have arriv ed at Salonika fleeing from threatened ijj assacre by Bulgarians. SIXTY MILES OF I POSITIONS. WRESTED FROM SERBIA. , (Rec. July 2, 11; .10 p.-p.) J Sofia j July 2. Tho Bulgarians, in ; captu ting silt; miles of Servian posltiof as a.lo: jjg the rail •way line, occupied Oun] ovo, 1 frivo, Lajk Souclievo, Tachou, Dolirevo, c (nd Emirga which they fortified. A BULGARI 'WEDG ». (Rec. July 2, |11,10 p. jn.) Vienna , July 2. The Bulgarians' daring oc< supation o Guevgheli- has enabled thorn to real is their project to securely dri' ro a wedg in between the Servian and G reek forces