ADRIANOPLE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 February 1913, Page 6

ADRIANOPLE

CONSULS AND EUROPEANS NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE BULGARIA REQUIRES ASSISTANCE. SERYIA CAUTIOUS. (Prxss Association. —Copyright.) (Received Feb. 12, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 11. The Government requested Bulgaria to permit the consuls and two hundred Europeans to leave Adrianople. Bulgaria, in reply, quotes the German precedent in the siege of Paris. The French Government maintains the demand. BELGRADE, Feb. 11. It is Teported that the Bulgarians require further Servian assistance. Troops are in readiness; but the Government desires an assurance in regard to the retention of various towns now ocupied by Servian troops, and also wants a strip of territory giving access to the Aegean Sea. GALLTPOLI- POPULAC E PANICSTRICKEN. SOFIA, February 11. The inhabitants of Gallipoli became panic stricken after the Turkish defeat at Bulair, and many women and children were drowned while trying to embark. Steamers crowded'with passengers are aground. . . , Bulair is strewn with corpses, including those of twenty officers. The Bulgarians lost five officers an 1 412 wounded. .The number of killed is unknown. BULGARIANS' DEADLY FIRE. THOUSANDS OF TURKS KILLED AND WOUNDED. (Rec. Feb. 12, 12.50 p.m.) V SOFIA, Feb. 11. ■When the Turks landed at Charkeui, the Bulgarians quickly hemmed them in ani drove them panic-stneken to their VC The Bulgarian infantry and artillery maintaining a deadly fire, killed and wonnded thousands. Tho Bulgarian casualties did not ex- • ceed one hundred. ** The- Bulgarians, being exposed to tne warships' fire, retreated to a fresh portion six kilometres to the rear, entrenchimr before Bular.