BALKAN WAR.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1847, 13 February 1913, Page 5

BALKAN WAR.

BULGARIANS DRIVE TURKS. Press Assn—By Telegraph—Copyright Sofia, Yesterday. When the Turks landed at Charkeui the Bulgarians quickly hemmed them in and drove them panicstricken to their vessels. Tlio Bulgarian infantry and artillery, maintaining a deadly lire, killed and wounded thousands. The Bulgarian casualties did not exceed a hundred. The Bulgarians, being exposed to the warships' fire, retreated to fresh positions six kilometers to the rear, entrenching before Bulair. A FRENCH DEMAND. The Government requested Bulgaria to permit the Consuls and two hundred Europeans to leave Adrianople. Bulgaria, in reply, quotes the German precedent of the siege of Paris. The French Government maintains the demand. MORE SERVIANS WANTED. Belgrade, Yesterday. It is reported the Bulgarians require fuither Servian assistance. The troops are in readiness, but the Government desires an assurance in regard to the retention of the various towns now occupied by the Servian troops, and also wants a strip of territory giving access to the Aegean Sea. CONSTANTINOPLE FIDDLING. WHILE THE EMPIRE DIES. TURKEY'S LATTER DAYS. Received 11.50 p.m. Loudon, Feb. 12. The Daily News' Constantinople correspondent reports that the situation there is extraordinary. Business is at a standstill and many fires occur. The inhabitants are indulging in amusement, and pleasure, uuheeding the war. Cholera has broken out on the Asiatic shore. The Government is in desperate straits for money, and is compelling the rich merchants to subscribe. ■ The Crown jewels have been hvpotheticated. A TURKISH SORTIE. AND A VICTORY. Other reports state that the Turks sortied 011 Sundaj and captured at bayonet point the Bulgarian position at Daliden Hill, inflicting severe foss. The troops at Chataldja joined lorces at Papaz Borgas and occupied tiie heights to the westward. BULGARIA REFUTES TURKISH ACCOUNTS. Sofia, Fob. 12. The Government has issued a statement declaring that the Turks are inventing imaginary victories. No important engagements occurred at Chataldja, while fifteen thousand Turks were killed and wounded at Bulair. The Bulgarians already had buried two thousand five huundred Turks. Three thousand corpses are still scattered on the field. TURKISH IRONCLAD LOST. Constantinople, Feb. 11. The Turkish ironclad Assar-i-Tewik has been wrecked at Baroburum, 32 miles east by north of Gallipoli.