THE BALKANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 18 February 1913, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (United Press Association.) London, February 15. The Daily Mail’s Constantinople correspondent reports that the Turkish loss at Bulair was due to a Bulgarian ruse. The latter feigned to be in disorder, and retreated to the plain, where they commanded the slopes of Kurudagh mountain. The Turks broke cover and followed, but were decimated by shrapnel from the Bulgarian batteris on Kurudagh mountain. Paris, February 15. Bulgaria has replied to France that it had instructed the Commander at Adrianople to establish a neutral zone at Karagatch, outside the city. Athens, February 15. The Greeks are being expelled from that 2000 compatriots have been arrested. Advices from Canea state that the Yarmouth landed bluejackets, who hauled dow n the flags of Turkey and the protecting Powers, rendering military honors. Afterwards the Greek flag was hoisted by the Cretans, with enthusiastic demonstrations in honor of Greece and the protecting Powers. Sofia, February 16. Bulgaria has permitted three hundred foreigners to leave Adrianople. Constantinople, February IG. It is officially stated that 16,000 Montenegrins engaged in attacking Tarabosch and Barditza have been routed, leaving three thousand dead and wounded and six guns. Sofia, February 16. The wreck of the cruiser Assar-i-Tewfik was due to a Bulgarian mine. A Bulgarian mining detachment destroyed her. THE PARTITION TO TURKEY. London, February 17. It is stated in diplomatic circles that Austria considers that Albana should include Scutari, Ipek, Prisrend, Diakova, Dibra, Konitza and Janina. It is emphasised that of a total of 1,200,000 Albanians one-third are outside the frontiers, and no Slavs inside. The Daily Chronicle says that Roumania has informed the Powers that in view of the unsatisfactory progress of the Slav negotiations, she might be obliged to have recourse to military measures, BULGARIA AND ROUMANIA. Sofia, February 17. Bulgaria has offered to cede the hill dominating Silistria and give 20 kilometres of the coast to Cape Shabla. Roumania has refused the offer. A TURKISH DEFEAT. Constantinople, February 17. Two thousand Selimecs in barracks at Scutari refused to go to the front. Two regiments surrounded the barracks. Firing is proceeding. The' army is in a sorry plight. It includes the whole of the reserves. The Anatolia expedition to Charkeui was an utter failure, and Enver Bey narrowly escaped with his life in an open boat. His disheartened soldiers are now crowded, wet and hungry, in the open streets of Gallipoli. All the available houses are full of wounded.

It is reported that Enver Bey is sending troops across tho Dardanelles, owing to the reported landing for 40,000 Greeks at Beckabaye. Shcvket Pasha intimates that the resumption of peace negotiations is imminent with the Great Powers.