MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 112, 7 November 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

PANIC-STRICKEN PEOPLE IN ' ADRIANOPLE. MOVEMENTS OF BRITISH WARSHIPS. (Received November 7, 10 a.m.) SOFIA. 6th November. The populace of Adrianople are panicstricken. They are fighting to obtain food. t \ The Bulgarian Red Cross Society has opened a hospital with 2000 beds at Ti r uovo. MALTA, 6th November. The battleships King Edward VII., Zealandia, Hindustan, 'and Africa, steaming eighteen knots, have passed here, sailing eastward. The Hibernia, Britannia, Commonwealth, and Dominion are coaling, in readiness to sail. All colliers arriving here are despatched eastward. Rtuter's Gibraltar correspondent states that after orders to proceed to Portsmouth had been given the cruiser Black Prince (13,550 tons) was ordered eastward. VIENNA, 6th November. Many of the newspapers are convinced that Austria and Italy will veto any attempt by Servia to obtain an outlet on the Albanian coast. ST. PETERSBURG, 6th Nov. The police dispersed a meeting^ of members of the Slavonic Association, at which fiery speeches against Austria and Germany were made. CONSTANTINOPLE, 6th Nov. The Porte has warned the local Kurds that they will be held responsible if they start trouble. The British cruiser Weymouth has arrived in tho Bosphorus. Snow is falling in the mountains and delaying military developments on both sides. The Embassies have requested permission for the passage of a second warship each through the Dardanelles. (Received November 7, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, 6th November. Admiral Sir Archibald Milne, Com-mander-in-Chief on tho Mediterranean station, is on board the cruiser Good Hope (14,000 tons displacement), proceeding full steam to Constantinople. He is arranging to land a large force of British bluejackets. Correspondents of the medical journal Lancet state that the mortality arising from disease in the Balkans is likely to be enormous. Arrangements on both sides for dealing with the sick and wounded are inadequate, and starving non-combatants are pouting ' into Constantinople, where disease is likely to decimate thew.