EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL

POPULACE DEVOTED TO

PLEASURE.

GOVERNMENT'S FINANCIAL

STRAITS,

(Received Feb. 12, 11.55 p.m.) London, F«b. 12-

The "Daily News' "Constantinople correspondent reports that the situation there is extraordinary. Business i 3 at a standstill, and many fires have occurred. The inhabitants are indulging in amusement and pleasure, and not heeding the war. Cholera has broken, put.on the Asiatic shore. The Government is in desperate straits for money, and is compelling rich merchants to subscribe. The Crown jewels ihave beea hypothecated. /■,■: Other reports state that the TurksedrtietLon, Sunday*, and captured -at tho bayonet's point a Bulgarian position in tho Daliden hills, inflicting

severe loss

The troops at Chataldja joined forces at Papax Bourgas, and occupied the heights to the westward.