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TURKISH ARMY R
Are Cut OFT Between ldflanople
and the Capital
how MoWNe ON SAlONIkA
Success Of Bulgarian Turning Move
msnt will Put constantinopIe at
Mercy Of invaderS

Success Of Bulgarian Turning Move
ment will Put constantinopIe at
Mercy Of invaders.
London, Oct 3o.-The plan Of cam
paign of the Balkan allies appears to
be working with almost perfect
smoothness. This is due. according to
military critics, to some extent to the
u1preparedness OF the Turkish army.
The armies of Bulgaria, Servia, Mon
tenegro and Greece are now In posses
sion of large portion Of the Turkish
railroad system and also of the wagon
roads, while those lines and roads
which they do not actually command
they are threatening.
Interest In the war still centers very
largely in the eastern area below
'Adrianople, where Nazim Pasha, the
Turkish minister of war and CON-
pander.in-chief. with four army corps,
II holding the line from Tchoriu to
Lule Burgas. According to the latest
reports he has been set the task of
trying to stem the advance Of the vic
torious Bulgarian troops. and he is
credited with the statement that he
will return the victor or perish in the
attempt.
Maxim Pasha appears to occupy q
perilous position. with the Bulgarians
on his right flank at Eski-Baba cutting
him OF from the army at Adrianople.
while the destruction Of tho bridge
over the Tci,orlu river prevents him
from obtaining reinforcements and
supplies from Constantinople.
Supplies are his greatest need, for
with the breaking down of the Turkish
commissariat he is reported to be al
ready short Of them. Should the great
turning movement now being attempt
cd by the Bulgarians be successful.
Maxim Pasha might be driven to the
west toward Salonika, leaving Con-
stantinople at the mercy of the in
vaders.
In the meantime the Greek, Seryiah
and Bulgarian armies are moving upon
Salonika The Greeks already are
within striking distance Of the Turk
tsh town Of Verria, only fifty miles
from Salonika, on the railroad from
Monastir The possession Of Verria
By the Greeks would not only threaten
Salonika, but cut OF the Turkish army
under Zekki Pasha, which has defeat
ed the Servians at Uskup and is now
concentrating at Monastir.
The capture Of Verria by the Greeks
would enable the INTO effect juno
fion with the Bulgarian army coming
down from Novrokop and Drama, and
with the Servians who are advancing
upon Veles. All the passes through
the Rhodope mountains leading to the
Ealonika and Adrianople railway are
also in Bulgarian hands.
Extreme anxiety reigns in Salonika,
and grave outbreaks are feared there
by foreigners if the armies of the Bal
kan allies continue to drive back the
Turkish troops, according to special
dispatch received in Paris.
No orders from Constantinople have
been received by the Turkish com
manders in salonika for two days, The
provisioning Of the troops in garrison
there IL altogether insufficient, while
the sea batteries have been stripped
Il their guns and ammunition, which
have been sent to the front.
Active negotiations are going on
among the powers. The British minis
ter at Cettinje, Montenegro, In COM
pany with the Montenegro foreign
minister, visited King Nicholas at RE
h, and this Is regarded as undoubt-
edly in connection with the converse
lions held with the. ambassadors Of
the powers in London by Sir Edward
Grey, the British foreign minister. The
diplomats are still hopeful of avoiding
sny complications between the powers.
A well-informed correspondent in
Vienna telegraphs that Austria does
not contemplate any active fnterven-
ton and that there exists in the Aus
trian capital well-founded hope of an
Improvement In ,Austro-Seryian rela-
lions. II this Is SO, the dangers always
expected to arise in Europe from a
Balkan war may be avoided.