THE BALKANS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10509, 20 November 1912, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

' DRILLING THE TURKS. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Constantinople, November 19. Hademkeni correspondents' state that Nazim Pasha is drilling some sort of order into the Turks, but their moraleUs doubtful. It is impossible to arouse enthusiasm in the Asiatic reservists to do permanent work. They are armed witli heavy Krupps. 100,000 troops are distributed around Hademkeni with their fiaulvs, defended by lakes and -swamps. THE CHOLERA SCOURGE. The ’Bulgarians, who are forcing Hademkeni, must cross a road and an undulating plain. The weather is abnormally hot, which is assisting cholera, dysentery”aud enteric. Cholera patients are Herded in a “dump,” surrounded by barbed wire. The precautions, however, are futile, as outside victims wandering through gardens . and fields die roadside. Soldiers, maddened by thirst, drink water infected by corpses. Only a few shots were fired at Chataldja yesterday. If cholera had not occurred the fort’s resistance could easily last "for weeks. TURKS BEAT BULGARIANS. Turkish accounts state that Mukhtar Pasha’s division attacked and broke the Bulgarians’ formation and captured a number of guns. The Turks lost heavily. Official circles are more optimistic as to the ability to hold Chataldja. A DENIAL. Belgrade, November 19. It is officially denied that the Consuls at Prizrend and Mitrovitza were subjected to annoyance. THE ARNAUTS. Arnants seized the rifles of many flying Turks and captured mountain guns. Other Turks bartered magazine rifles for bread. Arnants are ravaging the country. The Servians are endeavouring to capture them. * AT ALLESIO. Cettinje, November 19. It is reported that Martinovitcb has occupied Allesio. SERVIA DISCUSSES PEACE. Sofia, November 19, The Cabinet is discussing peace -terms. Servia insists on acquiring part of the Albanian coast, with Durazzo. retaliation. Athens, November 19. A detachment of Cretans killed a hundred members of a TurcoAlbanian band which committed depredations at Epirus. :SULTAN URGES MEDIATION. , ■ Encouraged by reports of cholera and typhus ravages in the Bulgarians’ ranks, it is reported that the Sultan has appealed to the Sovereigns of the various Powers requesting their mediation. Albanian residents have petitioned foreign embassies requesting the Powers to secure autonomy. BLUEJACKETS LAND AT PEBA. Three thousand three hundred bluejackets of various nationalities, with Maxims, have been landed at Pera. ; TROUBLE OVER A CONSUL. Vienna, November 19. The treatment accorded to the Consuls, and the uncertainty as to the safety of M. Prochaska, Consul at Prizrend, are creating irritation against Servia. M. Pasics refused to permit an Austrian official to visit to Prizrend to investigate, M. Berchtold is pressing for the right to communicate with the diplomatic representative. SERVANS BUTCHER albanans. According to an Albanian account, the Servians threatened to fire with shell on the Austrian Consulate at Prizrend unless admitted. M. Prischaska then yielded, and the Servians found the courtyard packed with Albanian women and children refugees, and they converted the place into a shambles. They afterwards burst into Prischaslra’s room and bayoneted him in the thigh His present whereabouts are unknown. The Reicbspost says !ho fugitive Albanian leader Eoluiha states that the Servians occupying Prizrend shot the population in the streets with machine guns, killing 111 men, ■ 35 women and 10 children. ALBANIA MUST GET AUTONOMY. Italy and Austria have agreed that Albania must be granted autonomy. RUSSIA MOBILISING. . Received November 20, 9 a.m. London, November 19. 5- The Daily Mail’s Odessa correspondent reports that Russia is actively mobilising 400,000 timeexpired troops who will lie retained with the colours for a further six months. There is also a general movement. westward of troops of all arms. A PASHA WOUNDED. Constantinople, November 19, Muktar Pasha has been wounded.

A SERVIAN SUCCESS. Belgrade, November 19. The Servians before Monastir numbered 40,000. They captured 20,000 Turks and 17 guns. Oblakova and Kochista maintained a galling fire, nevertheless the Niorava division attacked with great daring. The right wing, under Colonel Nediton, cut off the retreat of Ochrida. A further 20,000 attempted to break General Nidotch’s lines an reacli the Albanian hills, but were repulsed, killing or wounding 2000 of Niorava’s division and finally captured the heights with the bayonet. AN,EFFECT OF THE WAR. Received November 20, 10 a. in. 'London, November 91. Owing to the war stopping consignments to the Levant ten tin plate mills ,at Swansea have closed down. BULGARIAN LOAN PASSED IN FRANCE. Paris, November 19. The French market has consented to a Bulgarian loan of 1 y 2 millions sterling. $ The German Chancellor proposed a similar application, and asked M. Poincare to do likewise but M. Poincare replied that he was powerless to do so. POPE ASKED TO INTERVENE. , New York, November 19. The Albanians in America have cabled to the Pope asking him to intervene and secure Albanian autonomy. DESPERATE FIGHTING. TEN THOUSAND CASUALTIES. Belgrade, November 19. There have been three days’ desperate fighting at Monastir. The Turkish casualties numbered ten thousand. Booty worth several million francs was taken. AUSTRIAN EMPEROR’S STATEMENT. Vienna, November 19. A Prague newspaper states that the Austrian Emperor in conversation remarked: “We favour peace, but not at any price. We cannot stand everything. ” MISSING CONSUL SAFE. _ Vienna, November 19. The Zeit states that Government has received a post card from Prochaska, the missing AustroHungarian Consul at Prizrend, stating that he is perfectly well. BULGARIAN NOTE TO PORTE. Sofia, November 19. J Bulgaria has informed the Porte that after consulting the Allies, Bulgaria has appointed plenipotentiaries commissioned to arrange terms of an armistice, and subsequently to conclude peace, PEACE CONDITIONS. London, November 19. Reuter’s Sofia correspondent states that the peace conditions sent to the o te permit Turkey to retain Cons'. iople and a strip of coast terriS:AL ■ - lAN INDEPENDENCE j Vienna, November 19. Eismail Kemal has gone to Durazzo to pro 'Aim Albanian independence before .ue^arrival of the Servians. RAVAGES OF PESTILENCE. TERRIBLE MISERY. Received November 20,|1 p.m. Vienna, November 19, The Niue Frie Press© war correspondent who, on Sunday, rode along the positions of the Turkish centre at Hademkeni pictures misery such as was never previously witnessed. For miles before Hademkeni he saw dozens of dead horses in puddles and marshy streams, from which soldiers tortured by burning thirst, drink deadly draughts. The batallions of the Fourth Army Corps landed at San Stefano on Saturday and going to the front, are already carrying dozens of cholera-stricken, and others cholera-stricken from the front are coming to Gakrikein, poisoning every place passed. The earef one gets to Hadembei the more frequent are the heaps of corpses on the roadside. There are dead and dying in every wayside ditch. This is the end in forts where at first there were 'only fifteen deaths. An attempt was made to localise the epidemic, but the waggons with chloride of lime arriving late and now the wells being dry, men are drinking from puddles outside the camp. Thousands are writhing and groaning, and piteous cries rend the air. Sufferers with distorted features grovel in the streets, squares, gardens and fields outside Chataldja. Going for our horses which we left at Chataldja ten days ago we saw dying men drag themselves to the stables, hut they were brutally driven off while screaming appealingly to Allah and their mothers. Many cursed like madmen. We found onr horses and forced our way through. The correspondent pays a high tribute to Turkish honesty. Except his hand luggage he lost nothing. During the retreat the officers disinfect themselves and advise the men to do so, but the soldiers either through thirst or fatalism continue drinking the pestilential water in which corpses lie. AN IRON GIRDLE. The population is fleeing from Ohataldj, ~ round which the lines form an iron girdle with 1200 gnus.