"PIERRE LOTI" CAUSES INDIGNATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 February 1913, Page 5

"PIERRE LOTI" CAUSES INDIGNATION.

(Received February 3, 12.30 p.m.) SALONIKA, February 2. There is indignation against "Pierre Loti" for stating in his book that the officers of the cruiser Briux saw Greek and Servian soldiers gouge out the eyes of Turkish prisoners. ["Pierre Loti" (Louis Marie Julien Viand) is a captain of the French navy, and a French novelist. Ho is the author of many works.]

CULTIVATING THE SOIL

(Received Last Night, 11.25 o'clock.) SOFIA, February 3. During the armistice, the Bulgarians'aud Servians have'sown winter wheat in the southern Balkans. The ..adults who are unable to continue the war, inasmuch as the women, children, and elderly men will suffice to gamer the harvest.

VEDRINES AND HIS AEROPLANE

(Received February 3, 12.30 p.m.) BELGRADE, February 2. Vedrines, the aviator, has arrived here. His aeroplane is in readiness.

TERMINATION OF ARMISTICE

MOXTEXEGRIX SATISFACTION. (Received February 3, 8 a.m..) CETTINJE. February 2. The termination of the armistice was received with satisfaction thrcugii fclie Montenegro people being desirous of forcing the surrender of Skutari before pence is concluded. King Nicholas ha.s departed towards Skutari.

CHATALDEJA TROUBLE

A DENIAL. (Received February 3. 10.10 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Februa.rv 2. Shevket Pasha, Grand Vizier, and Minister lor War, denies that there is a.ny. truth in the reports of trouble at Chataldeja. The army, says, was never animated by such solidarity and devotion.

YOUNG TURKS' PERSECUTIONS

(Received February 3, 10 a.m.") ] - SOFTA, February 2. Captain Hadjeali has arrived at the Bulgarian headquarters. He had to fly from the Young Turks, who are persecuting the late Nazim Pasha's partisans. Twenty Turkish soldiers avlto have arrived at Chorlu, confirm the reports of sanguinary conflicts between Turkish officers and soldiers at Ohataldeja.