TURKEY MOVING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14065, 20 August 1913, Page 5

TURKEY MOVING.

400,000 TROOPS UNDER ARMS. TO HOLD ADRIANOPLE. , 1 AND EXTEND OPERATIONS WESTWARD. Pres* Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright i PARIS, August 19. Turkish advices stats that Enver Bey commands 400,000, and that besides defending Adrianoplo ho contemplates : extensive operations westward of the Maritza. THE OCCUPATION OF ADRIANOPLE. TURKS’ DECISION UNALTERABLE. LONDON. August 19. Router says Turkey’s decision to 'remain in Adrianople is unalterable. The ■ Government’s existence is bound up in ! the city’s fate, and Turkey awaits the ' future calmly, though Where is no atI tempt to minimise the gravity of tho situation. SIGNIFICANT. RUSSIAN CRUISERS LEAVE BOSPHORUS. CONSTANTINOPLE. August 19. I The withdrawal of two Russian cruis- ; ers from the Bosphorus is supposed to ; indicate, tho admonition to Turkey, that the Powers’ will must ho respected, and it signifies Russia’s desire to co-oporate with the other Powers, especially Franco and England, to maintain the Ottoman Asiatic Empire and tho European Empire on the basis indicated in the Powers’ identical Note. The Jcuno Turn believes' 1 the departure is connected with the Sevastopol manoeuvres, THE ADVANCING TURKS, A DENIAL. CONSTANTINOPLE. August 19. Tho Grand Vizier denies that tho Turks are advancing on Lumuljina or Dedeagatch. hut admits tho occupation of tho right bank of tho Maritza and Domotika. THE POWERS IN ACCORD. TURKEY .MUST OBSERVE TREATY. Received August 20 9 a.m. SOFIA. August 19. The Government has been reassured that the Powers are concerting measures to comnel Turkey to observe the Treaty of London. ROUMANIA EVACUATING BULGARIA. ' SOFIA. August 19. Roumania has promised to complete 7 tho evacuation of Bulgaria by August 28. and to indemnify the population for losses and hand over tho railways tomorrow. ENTHUSIASM AT ATHENS. Received August 20, 11.5 a.m. ATHENS, August 1.9. Fervent enthusiasm was displayed ■at King Constantino’s entry into tho city. The streets were thronged with people crying “Long live Constantino, the slayer of tho Bulgarians.”