ESCAPEE'S SENSATIONAL STORY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 137, 6 December 1912, Page 7

ESCAPEE'S SENSATIONAL STORY

half the town burnt. inhabitantsln a terrible PLIGHT. pestilence" certain. (Received December 6, 9.30 a.m.) SOFIA, sth December. An Armenian doctor named Kilebjian, who escaped from Adrianople, states that Shells started a file at night in the wooden Turkish houses, which were dry with age. Half the town was burnt. There were no hoses. The inhabitants made a terror-stricken rush to the military quarter, and the garrison, in the hope of quelling riots, fired volleys into them. Eighty thousand of the inhabitants are in a terrible plight. They are without bread, and no light is available. They are using tlie woodwork of houses to cook food with. The air is polluted by the dead bodies of men and women. Horses, dogs, and other dead animals have been thrown into th« swollen Maritza River. Pestilence i 8 certain when the flood recedes. SHELLING VALONA KEMAL BEY'S EFFECTIVE PROTEST. (Received December 6, 9.20 a.m.) HOME, sth December. Two Greek gunboata bombarded the town of Valona. Tlie shells fell near the Italian and Au3tro-Hungarian Consulates. Owing to the _ panic created Ismail Kemal Bey, President of Albania, protested, and the gunboats departed, tho officers declaring that Valona ought to surrender and the Greeks would treat the .Albanians like bi others.

parations has caused a run on the savings banks in Galicia. Three Russian spies, disguised as nuns, have been . arrested on a train near Lemberg. BERLIN, sth December. The Lokal Ari2eiger says the Prochaska incident is now the main danger between Austria and Servia. Austria insists on immediate satisfaction for the treatment of M. Prochaska, who was Austria-Hungarian Consul at Prizren, by the victorious Servian army . FINANCIAL CmCLES EXCITED. (Received December 6, 8 a.m.) VIENNA, sth December. Financial circles are excited over the Hungarian Government introducing a Bill conferring upon it the power to declare a discretionary moratorium. [Moratorium is a term used to express a legal authorisation postponing for a specified time the payment of debts or obligations. In the present instance a discretionary moratorium has been obtained. The term is also sometimes used to mean the period over which the indulgence or period of grace stretchee, the authorieation itaelf being called a.~ moratory law. A moratory law is usually passed in some specific period of political or commercial stress ; for instance, on several occasions during the Franco-German War the French Government passed moratory laws. Their international validity was discussed at length and upheld.] PROVIDING FOR SOLDIERS' RELATIVES. (Received December 6, 9.20 a.m.) VIENNA, sth December. The Military Committee has adopted a Bill providing for the support of soldiers' relatives. SERVIAN PRINCE RECOVERING. (Received' December 6, 8 a.m.) BELGRADE, sth December. Prince George of Servia is recovering from his attack of typhoid fever. GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH. WILL FRIGHTEN N.OBODY. ST. PETERSBURG, sth Dec. The Novoe Vremya, in commenting on the recent speech of Herr yon Beth-mann-Hollweg, the German Chancellor, said such intimidation would frighten nobody, but prudence demanded tfie immediate jvithdrawal of the vast Russian deposits in German banks.