THE DEFENDER OF ADRIANOPLE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13646, 11 February 1913, Page 5

THE DEFENDER OF ADRIANOPLE.

A TERRIBLE THREAT

RESISTANCE TO THE END

MASSACRE PROMISED AT THE

LAST.

(Received/Fob. 10,11.30 p.mi)

Vienna, Feb; ,10

The ' 'iNeue Freie Presses" Coristantinople cori'esporideirb reports that ; Cliukri, Pasha sent the following wireless message-when he heard it was confcempl^ted' to neutralise (Adrijanople : 'lI woiild sooner sacrifice my last man itlian surrender '; one of the strongest fortresses in the world. / If further re"sistance proves, useless I shall take care to put.^ie;4o,QoO. Bulgarianß Uyang; here; out of the way. I Will confide the women iand^ildreh^id^the^ suls, tmai' the; gtins on all Bulgariansr, and then convert Adirianople into a gigantic rubbish hcat>."