Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-28
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Famine in Seutari and Adrianople
is adding terribly physical suffering
to the wounds caused by Montenegrin
and Bulgarian bullets and shells.
Bread was three dollars a loaf in
Scutari this morning.
The survivors of the battle Of Kirk
Kilesseh and the reserves at Dinotka,
the three field corps from the Tach'
Idle and troops returning from Asia
Minor are being concentrated as a
seine to cover the Capital, these am
plified by the garrison of Adrianople.
A ConstantiIople special dispatch
says that the great battle of the war
will likely be fought between forts
guarding the trund road at Eski Baga
and Serai.
If the Ottoman troops are defeated
in this great battle they will retire
within the trenches and forts which
protect the narrow isthmus, while the
Porte makes final appeal to tho
Great Powers to save the Empire from
annihilation. ..e
], Uskup, Turkeys hope against the
armies of the East, has fallen.
Adrianople, key to the ,Bosphorus,
Swept by fire started In hundred
places by bursting shells from the
Bulgarian artillery and 'beset on three
sides by an irresistible infantry and
cavalry attack, IS doomed.
Scutari, the easternmost Turkish
outpost in Albania and the only res
training barrier before the army of
King Nicholas of Montenegro, is un-
dergoing a Montenegro bombardment
that cannot be resisted another twelve
hours.
Germany will not assist Great Bril-
tain, France and Russia to end the
Balkan mountain states war. Kaiser
Wilhelm is quoted as having told the
imperial chancellor of Germany to
light his pipe with the note sent by
Sir Edward Grey of Great Britain.
" War department officials are elated
over the present state of Pearl Har-
Dor defenses proved by last weeks
Hawaiian war game. A dispatch has
been received by the war department
giving a synopsis of the work. A de-
tailed report, which will be forward
ed by mail, will form the basis for
Notifications, on the plans now in pro-
cess Of completion.
: For the first time since he came
back from Chicago to recuperate from
his bullet wound received in Milwau-
kee, Colenel Roosevelt today ventured
outdoors, He discovered that he was
far weaker than he had thought.
The Colonel walked slowly down
the path to. the tennis court. By the
time he got there, he was wondering
at the distance of it. He stood lean
ing with a hand against the railing
of the driveway. The short walk had
weakened him.
The Rev. Thurston u. Vaughn,
charged with attacking three little
girls, Saturday was found guilty, The
jury made no recommendations for
clemency and Vaughn was sentenced
to- die in the electric chair on De-
cember 20.
The New York Herald announced
this morning that test ballots, taken
in thirty-five States, show Gov. Wood
raw Wilson leading in twenty-six
Roosevelt in five and Taft in four
States.
Arthur Smith placed his fiance, Miss
Annie Cour, beside him in his biplane
this afternoon at Fort Wayne, India
seventy-five miles away, where they
were married.
The parents of the young woman
had objected to their marriage but
tonight when they learned of the
flight and wedding they telcgraphed
Smith he would be welcomed in their
home, but for him to ship his mach
inc by freight and return with their
daughter on a train.
J. Pierpont Morgan today present
ed Trinity College with 100000 to-
cover the expenses of erecting IL
brary and administration building to
be known as Williams Hall.
The contract for a loan of $500
600 has been completed by the Robert
Dollar company of Shanghai for the
construction of the ney Hankow cleo
trio car line.
Julia SandersOn, the actress, was
yesterday granted an interlocutory de-