POWERS REQUESTED TO MEDIATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15142, 5 November 1912, Page 7

POWERS REQUESTED TO MEDIATE.

THE ARMY COMPLETELY DEFEATED.

GREATEST ROUT FOR 100 YEARS

LOSS OF 40,000 MEN.

REMNANT

MAKING A FINAL, STAND-

The war news published this morning confirms the previous messages as to the complete rout of the Turks by the Bulgarians.

The position of Turkey is so hopeless that the Porte has applied to the Powers to mediate, with the object of securing peace. Turkey has thus ignored the. semi-official statement published in Sofia to the effect that negotiations for peace must be with the allies direct, and not through the medium of the Powers.

M. Poincaire (the French Premier) has submitted to the Powers a proposal as to the form that intervention should take. It is understood that the proposal meets with general approval, but its nature is not disclosed.

A message despatched prior to the announcement that the Porte is seeking peace, stated that the Turkish army is making a final stand.

• A graphic ■ account of the crushing defeat sustained by the Turks at Lule Burgas and the subsequent flight of the panic-stricken army, is supplied by Mr. Donohuc, of the London Daily Chronicle, who is with the Turks at Chorlu. He states that the disaster is irrevocable, and that the rout is the greatest that has taken place'since the retreat of the army of Napoleon from Moscow a hundred years ago. No greater debacle, he says, has taken place since the capitulation of Sedan in 1870.

Forty thousand Turks are stated to have fallen in the battle of Lule Burgas and during the flight.

The Turkish port of Preveza, at the entrance of the Gulf of Arta, has surrendered to the Greeks. The Greeks have also captured Yenidji, which is only 14 miles from Salonika,

It is stated that Adrianople is likely to fall next week. s