Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-11-13
TURKISH COMMANDER
ADMITS HIS LINES
ARE UNTENANTAbLE
He ADMITS DEFEAT EVEN BEFORE VICTORIOUS BULGARIAN ARMY SEES
FIT TO STRIKE HIS SHATTERED FORCES AND HIS GOVERNMENT ASKS
POWERS TO INTERVENE AND Save SLAUGHTER IF BALKAN ALLIES
WILL PERMIT
Tense SITUATION CONFRONTS OTHER
NATIONS IN LAND OF OTTOMAN

progressing fayorably after being de-
layed for two days because of the diff
flculty of transport after the heavy
rain, according TO the correspondent of
the Reichspost at Bulgarian head
quarters, in dispatch dated Tuesday.
The Turks he says, have been
driven from their advance posts.
In another dispatch the correspond
ent says the Turkish officers captur-
ed during the Sorties made by the gar
rison of Adrianople declares the Bull
garan artillery fire was unbearable.
The Turkish troops engaged in the
Sorties had only few biscuits to eat
They treated their officers commands
to advance with Indifference and
stirred only when the Mussulman
priests interviewed.
The utmost confusion prevailed
among the besieged. The Turkish
darkness. while the Bulgarian artil-
lery continued to rake their ranks and
the infantry finally closed in on
them.
The Turks in Adrianople have been
kept in ignorance of the defeat of the
main Turkish army.
London, Eng, Nov. 13-All tho
European powers have agreed to the
Turkish proposal made last week that
they should Inform the Balkan ma
tion5 of the Turkish request for medi-
alton and to inquire from them
whether they are willing to formulate
terms Oh which negotiations could
be opened. Steps in this direction
are about to be taken by the repre-
sentatives of the powers.
Constantinople, Nov. There is
good reason to believe that the Turk
ish government has decided to nego.
tiate directly with the Balkan allies
as the mediation of the powers seems
to be fruitless
Sofia, Nov. 13.-The anticipated
step toward mediation has not yet
been taken. The powers apparently
are unable to decide upon any def
mite action.
Two of their representatives here
still are without instructions from
their governments.
In well informed quarters it is con-
sidered that the projected step will
have no effect as Bulgaria and her al
lies will continue to maintain their
position that Turkey must negotiate
directly with them.
Berlin, Nov. 13-The reason for
the breakdown of the Turkish army
before the invaders are brought to
light in letter from Captain Persius,
the war correspondent of the Tage-
blatt Writing from Uskup after Wis
iting the battlefield of Kumanova, he
says he found on the persons of the
fallen Turkish infantrymen numbers
OF blank cartridges and also cartridges
OF the old German rifles used in 1871.
He also drew the swords of some
of the fallen Ottoman cavalrymen
and found them unsharpened and
blunt and it was the same with the
bayonets of the infantrymen. He saw
a battery of field guns which had been
captured by the Servians. The sights
we're fixed at $500 yards, but the bar
rels were only slightly discolored by
powder. He was told that when the
Turkish gunners opened their reserve
boxes they found them
filed with soap.
The correspondent adds that hun
ger was one of the main causes of the
Turkish defeat The commissary alb
solutely lacked organization.