Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-21
Negotiations Fail and
Army Commander
Is Instructed to Re-
sumo Hostilities.
FRANCE SENDS SHARP
NOTE TO SUBLIME PORTE
Holds Turkey Responsible for
Violence Against Christians.
Asks Rigid Measures Be Ia
. ken to Prevent Outbreak.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. elm an
attack on the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh
in the Black Sea this morning two Bull
karian torpedo boats are asserted to have
been sunk and two other torpedo boats
badly battered.
The Hamidieh is said to have escaped
practically without damage.
CoNSTAfyTINoPLE, Nov. 21.-The
Ottoman government has rejected the
terms offered by the allied Balkan
nations.
Nazim Pasha, the Turkish COM
mander-in-chief. has been ordered to
Resume operations.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov. 21.-In order
to guard against unreasonable delay
the allies proposal to the Turkish
government were couched in such
terms as easily to permit a resump-
fion of ,hostilities, although such a
contingency was considered unlikely.
There Is growing popular agita-
tion here in favor of triumphal en-
try into constantinople by King
Ferdinand and his army. Official
OplillDI, nOWtNcIy 10 OppOoSu " ills,
as it is thought no sentimental con-
sideration of glory could possibly out
weigh the appalling danger of expos
ing to pestilence the troops exhausted
by their strenuous campaign.
PARIS, Nov. 21-France today no
tilted the Turkish government that
she would hold Turkey responsible for
any violence against Christians, and
asked her to adopt rigid measures to
prevent any outbreaks.
France took this step in fulfillment
OF her duty AS the recognized protec-
tor OF Christians in the Orient. and as
result of reports that massacres Of
Christians were possible in different
parts of the Ottoman empire.
GIBRALTAR, Nov. 21.-The United
States cruisers Tennessee and Mon
tana arrived here this afternoon
They are coaling preparatory to pro-
ceeding to Turkish waters for the
protection of American citizens in the
Ottoman empire.
CONsTANTINOPLE, Nov. 21.-
Heartrending scenes of suffering and
misery are enacted daily at the Turk
ish cholera camp at San Stefano
The correspondent of the Associated
Press, accompanied by the secretary
of a foreign embassy and by Major
Clyde s. Ford, u. S. A., who is here
on leave of absence, paid visit there
today.
eli fofC Ind TA1 l..
Pera, the foreign quarter of Constan-
tinople, both among members of the
diplomatic corps and foreign resi-
dents. No one there believed the fig
ures given by railroad employees and
others in contact with the Turkish
army, who declared that many thou
sands were stricken with cholera No
reliable figures were obtainable from
official sources, and In the absence
of these the reports were regarded as
grossly exaggerated.
The camp is situated at the side of
a railway embanlSment thirty feet in
height. A large open space like a
village green stretches away for some
distance. This is surrounded by bet
ter class houses two or three stories
high, built in European style. for San
Stefano is the summer resort of many
of the more wealthy foreign residents
of Constantinople.
Two Ottoman soldiers were stand
ing on guard at the entrance to the
camp. but they never made a motion
Their duty was to prevent those
within the Gordon from escaping, and
not to hinder other people from en-
tering. A nauseating picture was wit
messed at the side of the railroad
"'he bodies which had been thrown
from trains lay as they had fallen.
Some had stuck on top of the en-
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