THE BALKANS' UPHEAVAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 24 October 1912, Page 5

THE BALKANS' UPHEAVAL.

LATER DETAILS OF FIGHTING.

A HEAVY DEATH ROLL

SERVIANS CAPTURE PODTJJEV J

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, Oct. 22. The "Morning Post's'" Vienna correspondent states that the Servians captured Podujevo barracks after losing three hundred killed. The Turks lost six hundred,

TURKS READY FOR SERVIANS

SALONIKA, Oct. 22. Zeki Pasha has one hundred thousand men and much artillery, moulding many machine guns, in the Rumanovo district, awaiting the Servians.

BOMBARDMENT OF VARNA

BUCHAREST., (let. 92

Tho Turks bombarded Varna on Monday. The shells did great damajj;?. The inhabitants, who were terror-stricken, are fleeing to Roumania.

BOMBARDMENT OF KAVARNA

SOFIA, Oct. 22. Bulgaria protests that Kavarna was not fortified, and that its bombardment was a flagrant violation of the Hague principles.

Two companies of infantry and a mattery of mountain artillery attacked Tamraih. The Turks, who were without artillery, abandoned three lines of defence without waiting for a. bayonet charge.

Pomaks (Mahommedan Bulgarians), who were responsible for the massacre at Batak in 1876, meanwhile attacked the Bulgarians in the rear, killing a number. < The Bulgarians retaliated, destroying Tamrush.

SERVIANS DEFEAT ARNAUTS

BELGRADE Oct. ii The third Servian army advanced to the plain of Kossovo, where it was opposed by forty thousand, chiefly Arnauts, with, ten companies of Nizams, and four batteries of artillery. Severe fighting followed, extending from Kaska to Velyaglava, land the vicinity of Yenibazar. The losses on both sides •were heavy.

SERVIANS CLOSING ON KUMANOVO.

The Servians, operating from fie north, captured the blockhouses rouad Sienitza, and a number of Turkish positions round Kumanovo. A general attack on the town begins to-day.

Kumanovo is a Turkish town thirty miles from the frontier and a few miles for Uskub.

OBSTINATE TURKS

The troops advancing towards Prishtina were strongly opposed^, the defence by the Turks of Teneshdol Pass being tenacious.

The Servians captured the entrance to the Pass.

FURTHER SUCCESS OF GREEKS

ATHENS, Oct. 22. Tiro £Turks at Diskato are panicfttrickeri, and are fleeing to Serfidge. The Greeks pursuing, captured one million cartridge, occupied the heights commanding Grumboyo, and the heights of Kirovouni, in Epirus.

TURKEY'S OFFER TO GREECE

LONDON, Oct. 22. A Reuter message states that Turkey offered to yield Crete and also link up the Greco-Turkish railway to induce Greece to withdraw from the Balkans alliance.

TROOP TRAIN IN COLLISION.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 22. A Smyrna-bound train conveying 800 troops collided with a goods trains at Ephesus. All tho train staff and two hundred soldiers were killed, and two hundred injured.

TURKS PREVENTED FROM LANDING.

SOFIA, Oct. 22. There was a three and a half hours' bombardment of Kavarna. but the garrison of 11 soldiers, by hot fire, prevented the Turks landing. Later on cruisers bombarded Euxinograd barracks, at Varna. Shells fell on the children's home, and wherever the Red Cross was flying, but only small damage was done.

BULGARIANS NEAR ADRIANOPLE

SOFIA, Oct. 22. Tho Bulgarian force.s are within six miles of Adrianoole.

FURTHER CAPTURES BY BULGARIANS.

SOFIA, Oct. 22. The Bulgarians took, outside of Djumaja, three field pieces and 140 prisoners. They .also captured Kirdpaali, and a Turkish detachment.

TURKISH ATROCITIES

SOFIA, Oct. 22. The war correspondent of the newspaper "Mir" declares that the Turks at Giruenq, near Kochana, bads the Bulgarian peasants lie on the ground, and then shot 147 in cold blood.

A DESPERATE BATTLE AT KIRK KTLISSE.

LONDON, Oct. 22. The Central News Agency correspondent at Sofia reports that'a desperate battle is in progress at Kirk Kilisso. The Bulgarians had lost two thousand killed and four thousand wounded up to mid-day on Tuesday.

TURKS EXTERMINATE BULGARIAN HANDS.

Received 9.15 p.m., Oct 23 CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 23. Tt 75 officially «tatod that isev<Vral thousand Bulgarian irregulars in the l|!um.aibala district (otherwise Jum«va) conoontrated at Kresna Pass and burnt villages'to prevent the Turkish ji?>pn>3ch. Tho Turks surrounded the hands and practically exterminated them.

THE KFRK ILISS.E BATTLE

A TURKISH REPORT.

BULG AT? r ANS H K \ TF\ WITH HEAVY LOSSES.

Ropoived 9.1/> n m (\ft 03 mysTMVnyriiu.fl. o^t '23 _Tt is official'v stated thr\f the, Tlu'lffnnnns were defeated with bonvv lo<*Tat Kirk Ilisse.

DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING

Received 10.15 p.m., Oct. 23

VIENNA, Oct. 23

A Bulgarian column, larger than that at Mustafa, crossed tho mountains at Jamboii and Tmrova, and attacked Kirk llisse, apparently attempting to storm instead of beseiging. The artillery of the three forts was out of date, owing to being too close to the town, but the field works, which were re>cently thrown up, formed a circle of 12 miles around the town. They included 120 guns.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 23

is officially stated that the army at Kirk llisise advanced east of Tunja village and encountered the Bulgarians, heavy lighting occurring. An impetuous Turkish assault captured the position, tho Bulgarians sustaining heavy losses. A second Turkish column was successful ,to the west of Kalimandja, tho fight continuing unfcil nightfall. The Turkish advance was irresistible.

A large party of Ottoman Bulgarians, including a number of schoolmasters, have removed from Adrianoplo to Constantinople. They will probably be sent to Asia Minor.

MONTENEGRIN ARMY'S MOVEMENTS.

SOME HEAVY FIGHTING

Received 9.15 p.m., Oct. 23

PODGORITZA, Oct. 23. King Nicholas has advanced his headquarters to Antivari.

General Martinovic's infantry is massed on tho slopes of Tarabosch. The other infantry is carrying out a, secret march. Roads were blasted in the mountains to allow the passage of heavy •artillery, which has been mounted on tho heights around Tarabosch. A bombardment lasted four days, the fort on the hill being pock-marked with shellfire.

Larovitch, with the central Montenegrin army, is three hours' march from Scutari. The Malissori are covering his left among the mountains.

TURKISH FORCE AMBUSHED

ONE -THOUSAND OFFICERS AND

MEN CAPTURED

Received 11-15 n.m., Oct. 23

SOFIA, Oct. 23

A Turkish force, advancing to relieve Djumaibala, entered Knesna Pass unaware of two thousand insurgents, who blew up a bridge over the Strumaat the foot of the pass. Confusion followed. Many Turks were drowned. One thousand officers and men, three Krupp guns, and one machine gun were captured. Voivqidadontchs, the so-called King of Perim, carried out the exploit.

TURKISH BARBARITIES

WHAT MONTENEGRO HAS

SUFFERED

A striking account of recent events on the Montenegrin frontier is given by the "Manchester Guardian's" special correspondent in a despatch from Andriievitza (Montenegro) under date of August 22. The correspondent states:

The reports or Turkish doings just beyond the frontier being very contradic tory aaid incoherent, 1 hastened as near to the scene of action as possible, and ar\: cd at the Montenegrin border t'v>vii of A i'.irijevitza last night. By th,-> re-' f..g"cs and the wounded, of whom sixty have been brought .in here, a detailed ii.v r>- .s vivid account has been r-..c of the terrible events of the past vs eek

Ti.ey ar > a'i Serbs by race, and i'o« fj part of the large Va-sojevitch tribe, the other part of which is Montenegrin aod lives in and around Andrijevitza. The report at first spread—that the atf.iir originated in a quarrel with the Moslem Albanians over some burnt crops— .h v Lolly denied by tho refugees 'here. ihe> relate that all was quiet, fn.it no more than the usual difficulties under v. hich all Christian subjects of Inc Turks suffer were taking place, when, suddenly and with no warning, on tl:e night of August 14-15, the Tuikuh Nizams fell on the village of Urzinmtzu, near Berane, «nd, rushing Into the houses, began a search for araus. They began throwing the garments out of the clothes chests and demanding weapons. As the wretched Christians possessed very few a tern bio sceno oi slaughter followed. One woman -now in the hospital here—was o'-dered by the soldiers to leave her house, and was shot in tho back as she fled. In a'l seventeen women and 3'oung children in this village were killed. One baby of seven months was taken from the civ.J.e and shockingly mutiJated. It is in the hospital here. Its father was k'lled; its mother violated and killed. Its lit— tk- brother hid in a heap of hay ard escaped unhurt. In the same village n man, Suro, his brother, and his n=phew were all killed in their beds, so sifMe.i was the attack. Their heads were cut off and carried on a three-forked branch irto Berane, where four other heads were likewise taken.

FIRE AND SLAUGHTER. Several other villages were attacked, ■fJid the refugees .annealed to their relatives in Montenegro to come to thc-ir rescue and that of the other Serb village.-;, but just as the relief expeditn.i v. as about to start news came from Cettinjo that all the Ministers of all the Great Powens had given stringeit orders that the status quo was to, -be maintained. And maintained it has been. For a whole week the burning «--nd massacring has continued. Twelve Christian villages have been burnt, reckoned roughtly ,at 1500 houses in all. A* the upper iloor and roof of all houses in these parts is of timber this means that they are almost completely destroyed. The number of deaths cannot yet Is? correctly estimated. L'p to to-rl.iv CC wounded have been brought in here ever the border A wonran. wounded by shrapnel, told the writer that she knew that 15 women and children of b f >i- v;l----i.i.aro hnd been killed. How many more *ho could not «*y : she believed innuv. That this destruction was worked by Turkish ■regulars is proved by the fact that artillery was freely u<;ed. All the refugees and wounded agree in stating that although there were tome Moslem Albanians with the- tnnw, as Bashihazouks, it was not an Albanian .attack, 'hirty v.-omen and children hsve been t?.iren prisoners, .and their rc'.ativcis are tii grrnt anxiety .as to their possible rate. The report that was snmad at 'ho ho-ainninss. possibly by the Turkish mithorit'PS. -f!>r,<- *!•.,» ("!■■.,.:'■>■ :.-,,.,- x,.,,i ,;. proved two Moslem village-?, is untrue. !'h<? tlV!> vill'l^f'S n..-,."r.,| ,-■,■..,, >.«!■]) T'lristian. The Chr: st:nr ! 7. however, '-uc'-fPflod in nisbino- nn d burning sovor:iy Turkish blo"k-ho;:s^s n ihr> *-cmc frontier am] driving the Nizams >t-> T>V,\C:WTq S nOT TV T? TF T?]?TT p T!^ nu-o.stion e,f +ho*.c frontier' bloek>.o'w< ie : rPrv frr^ns. For the mst four years the x\s!intie soldier- -.'-f/'ned

in them have been a constant danger to the Montenegrin villages on the border. The Nizams have been in the habit of li'ing from their loop-holes, merely for cMiiusc-niont, at the houses, which are of v«kkl. Unfortunate peasans have been killed at their own fireside, the bullets pp&sing clean through the wooden walls. In some instances these block-houses are * itkin a few hundred metres only ot the nearest vili.;ges, which are.thus an t.-.sj- mark for long-range rifles—so easy that the Nizrams amuse themselves by scooting also *t hens and sheen. A favourite pastime is firing at peasants who are reaping corn or otherwise at work -in the fields. Small wonder that those border peasants pray most earnestly that if the great Powers wish to maintain the Turk in Europe, they will take, some steps to preserve the lives r.nd property of those who live under and n-ear to him.