HORRORS OF WAR.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 297, 20 November 1912, Page 5

HORRORS OF WAR.

SUPREME MISERY OF THE TROOPS. VIVID DESCRIPTION OF FEARFUL SCENES. COMPLICATIONS WITH AUSTRIA. RUSSIA MOBILISES 400,000 TROOPS. FRANCO-BULGARIAN LOAN ISSUED. The cables to-day create the impression that a rupture between Austria and the Balkan Allies and Russia is inevitable. The precursor to war, assaults and indignities placed on Consulates, has already happened, and the usual demand for apologies and redress are sure to follow. The casus belli is the determination of Servia to possess the Adriatic seaport Durazzo and the Albanian territory in its vicinity, and Austria’s equally strong determination to oppose the annexation. Russia, who is generally supposed to be at the back of the present war movement, is hastily mobilising 400,000 troops, and the Austrian Emperor is reported to have stated that “ Austria favoured peace, but not at any price. We cannot stand everything that others wish to impose on us.” With the horrible story of Chataldja, as recorded in our cables to-day by an Austrian war correspondent, one would imagine that all the civilised Powers would stand everything but war with its accompanying horrors. The cables reporting the progress of the fighting are apparently still subjected to strict censorship, and as a result are unreliable. The repeated reports of the capture and surrender of the same towns is becoming monotonous. The items conspicuous by their conformity are those relating to the terrible ravages of cholera outside Constantinople around which city disease has created a cordon more impregnable than the rifles and guns of the defending army. The messages to-day refer to the progress of the negotiations for peace, but these also are of a conflicting nature. The latest cable states that the Allies’ terms have bean sent to the Porte and that they will permit Turkey to retain Constantinople and a strip of coast territory.

THE ALBANIAN PROBLEM. DEMAN DS FOR AUTONOMY. [press association - copyright.] Constantinople, Nov. 19. The Albanian residents hnve pot: tsom'd. t li'-’ fereig::: emba/v it-s rs--j questing th<‘ Bourns t ■ sct-iv'e list"' ' Vienna. i°. I Italy and Auslrm hate agreed to : Albania's antnnc’.-'ii. (Re cei’vij Si. iti a.m.) New York, Nov. 19. Albanians in America have cabled to His Holiness the Pope asking him to intervene and secure Albanian autonomy. THE RACE FOR DURAZZO. (Received 20, 12.15 a.m.) Vienna. J 9. Eisniail Kemal has gone to Durazzo to proclaim Albanian independence before the arrival of the Servians. ) AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. ' GROWL FROM THE EMPEROR. (Received 20, 9.11) turn.) j Nov. 19. [ Prague newspapers state that (he I Austrian Emperor in conversation | remarked : “Wo favor,:- peace, but [ not at any price. We cannot stand ) e\erything.” [ RUSSIAN TROOP'S MOBILISED. , (Received 20, 9.10 a.in.) j London. Nov. 19. ! The '‘Daily Mail’s Odessa corves-j pondent reports that Russia is ac-1 lively mobilising 400,000 men. Time-; expired troops are being retained 1 with the colours for a fnrtfier six months. There is also a general movement westward of troops of all arms.

SINEWS GF WAR. FRANCO BULGARIAN LOAN. (Received 20, 11.10 a.m.) Paris, Nov. 19. The French stock market has con- ; Rented to a Bulgarian 'loan of £1,500.000. The German Chancellor opposed a similar application and asked M. : Poincare to do likewise, but M. Poincare replied that he was powerless to do so. AUSTRIAN COMPLICATIONS. ! ALLEGED CONSULATE i OUTRAGES. ST RAIN ED RE LA TION S. Vicuna. Nov. 19. The treatment accorded to the Consuls and the uncertainty as to | the safely of M. Prochaska. Consul |at Prizrend. is creating irritation ; against Servia. , M. Pasics refused to permit ai: I Austrian official to visit. Prizrend tc : investigate the matter. : Count Berchtold is pressing his ; right to communicate with a iliploi matie representative. ! According to an Albanian account [the Servians threatened to lire ! .'lie'll into the Austrian Consulate '.•it Prizrend unless admitted. M. i Prochaska yielded .'ini tin- Servians [found the courtyard packed with | ■ Albanian women and children re- | Ifugees. They converted the place H into a shambles. Afterwards theyj: 'burst into M. Prochaska's room, j niggled with him, and bayoneted j r him in the thigh. His present where- i about/s is unknown. , . The "Reiehspcst says th'' fugitive i t .‘.'banian leader Koldiba states that I ihe Servians on occupying Prizrend | 1 siict the* population in the sfreetsfi with machine guns, killing II! men. t 25 women and 10 children. < Buda Pesth. Nov. 19. Count B< rchteld told the Deli go- t t ion that there was no reason to ( doubt the Balkan States appreciated j and considered the high importance ; cf establishing sound relations with t Austria. His conversation with M. f Daneff confirmed this.

Belgrade, Nov. 19. It is officially denied that the Austrian Consuls at Prizrend and Mitiovitza were subjected to annoyance. WORD FROM THE MISSING J CONSC L. '; i Received 20. '0 • 1 ■;•**”**'" — ■<hr~-v | MKenna. '? o'’ 0 '’- ” :> - j The "Zcit.” ciater tLit yGoverH- ’ j nieni hus received a poslcaj4l-XKiilbwi . M. Proehaskii, the missing AustroHungarian Con'll at Prinzi-eml, j stating that he is perfectly well. ‘ THE FIGHTING a TURKS LAST DITCH. I DISEASE HOLDS SWAY. Constantinople, Nov. 19. Hademkeui correspondents state - that Nazim Pasha is drilling some sort of order into the Turks, but - their morale is doubtful, and it is 1 impossible to arouse enthusiasm | among the Asiatic leservists. The ! permanent works are armed wit h 1 heavy Krupp guns. There are IGO,OOO J men distributed around Hademkeui, with their flanks defended by lakes I and swamps. The Bulgarians forcI ing Hademkeui must cross by road ' ] through an undulating plain. * I The weather is abnormally hot, I assisting the cholera, dysentery and j enteric. Cholera patients arc herded j together and surrounded with barbed , t [ wire, but the precautions are futile as outside victims wandering in the | gardens and fields die by the roadj side. The soldiers, maddened by ) thirst, drink the water infected by i the corpses. ' * [ Only a few shots were fired at ! Chataldja yesterday. If cholera had not attacked the forts resistance. : might easily last foi- weeks. Turkish accounts state that Muktar Pasha’s division attacked anti broke [the Bulgarian formation, and captured a number of guns. The Turks lost heavily. Official circlet; are more optimistic ’ as to their ability to hold Chataldja, : encouraged by reports of cholera and typhus among the Bulgarians’ ranks. THE ARMY OF DEATH. FEARFUL THINGS AT CHATALDJA. MOST SUPREME MISERY. Vienna, Nov. )9. | The "Nene Frio Presse” war eoimpendent who on Sunday rod*' along [ the positions of the Turkish centre [at Hademkeui pictures misery such as was never previously witnessed. He says: "Foi- miles before Hademkeui we saw dozens of dead horses in puddles and marshy dreams from ivhieli soldiers, tortured by burning hirst, drink deadly draughts. Battalions of the fourth army corps landed at Snii Stefano on Saturday going to the front were al ready carrying dozens of vliolerastrivken patunis and ot'iici- cholcrnd i ii-ken from I lie front were cmniiig to Gakriki tn. poisoning every p)nc<they passed. The nran r one got to Hademkeui the more fi-equ< nt were the heaps of i-orpscs on tile roadside. Die,’:' were dead and d; ing in every, ■vaysid;- d:tcli at this end of the lines. In tlie forts, where at first there were only fifteen deaths, -an attempt was made to localise the epidemic, but waggons with chloride of lime arrived too late. The wells being now dry the men are drinking from puddles outside ihi- I'miit). Thousands arc writhing •md groaning, and piteous cries rend tin- air. Sufferers with ilistoi-ted fe.-d ores grove! it; the streets, square, gardens and the fields outside Uh.-i--tald.ia. Going for our horses w l-ie-l: . we left at Chataldja ten days ago, we saw dying men drag t hems • 1 ■< to the stables, but the; wore driven off. while scrt>aiuing ingly to Allah their Man.’.