TREATY OF LONDON

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1913, Page 7

TREATY OF LONDON

MUST BE OBSERVED POWERS RE-ASSURE BULGARIA RUMANIA'S INTENTIONS. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received August 20, 8.55 a.m.) SOFIA, 19th August. The Bulgarian Government has been reassured that the Powers are concerting measures to compel Turkey to observe the Treaty of London. Rumania has promised to complete the evacuation of Bulgaria by the 28th inst., indemnify the population for losses, and hand over the railways tomorrow. KING CONSTANTINE ENTERS HIS CAPITAL. FERVENT ENTHUSIASM. (Received August 20, 9.5 a.m.) 4THENS, 19th August. Fervent Aithusiasm was displayed here on the occasion of King Constantine's entry from the seat of war. The .streets were thronged, the crowds crying, "Long live Constantino, slayer of the Bulgarians!" TURKEY'S DECISION. ADRIANOPLE WILL BE HELD. ENVER BEY'S FORCES. LONDON, 19th August. Reuter'p correspondent states that Turkey's decision to hold Adrianople is unalterable. The Turkish Government's very existence is bound up in the fate of the city. Although there is no attempt to minimise the gravity of the situation, Turkey awaits the future calmly. Turkish advices state that Enver Bey commands 400,000 troops. Besides defending Adrianople, lie is contemplating extensive operations to the westward of the Maritsa Rivet. The withdrawal of two Russian cruisers from the Bosphortis is •upposed to indicate an admonition to Turkey that the Powers' will must be respected, and to signify that Russia's desire is to co-operate with the other Powers, especially France and England, in main taihing the Ottoman Asiatic Empire and European Empire on the basis indicatsd in the Powers' Identical Note. The journal Jeune Turc, the organ of the Young Turks, believes that the departure of the cruisera is connected with the Sevastopol manoeuvres. The Grand Vizier, Said Pasha, denies that the Turks are advancing on Lumuljina or Dedeagatch, but admits the occupation of the right bank of the ■Maritza- and of the Demotika. ATROCITIES DURING THE SECOND WAR. INTERNATIONAL* COMMISSION. (Received August 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 19th August. Dp. Butler, President of Columbia University, is organising an International Commission to enquire into the atrocities committed during the second Balkan War. The Commission will meet in Paris shortly. COURTS-MARTIAL. TURKS AND "BULGARS SENTENCED TO DEATH. (Received August 20, 1.30 p.m.) SALONIKA, 19th August. A Greek court-martial sentenced to death eighteen Turks for the massacre of Christians at Serfidje; also twentythree Bulgarians at Komitadjis for outrages at Fiorina. ,