The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-28
WAR IN BALKANS
| GOES ON DESPITE
W0RK FOR PEACE
Turks Sustain Loss OF 2,0CO
in Battle With Army
Of Greece
BULGARS CONTINUE
ADRiANOPLE SLICE
Reports Of City in Flames and
OF Closing in Of Car
Ford nand's Troop
Are Received

! LONDON, Nov. 2T.--The optimistic
belief that the peace negotiations now
Proceeding between the Turks and the
Bulearians in the viz unity OF the Teha-
taiJa forts were favorable TO a Ter
inination OF the war was radely SHAKEN
I tonight by the news that Turkey had
! rejected the terms offered by the a.
: lies. and that the Bulgarian delegates
had teen instructed TO reply to the
! Ottoman government that II the teIns
wers not accepted within foriy-eight
! hours hostilitics would be resumed i'm
meaiately.
| When Maxim Pasha. the Turkish
COMMANDER In chief. rejected the Bull
garian terms. he submitted counter
, proposals to The ailiss. and the fact
that General SavofT did not reject this
proposition at once gave hope that an
, agreement would be reached.
Although no details have been made
public. IL is understood that Adrian.
opie is the stumbling block. Bulgaria
demands the city. while the Turks
stubtornIy refuse 20 give IL up. Mean
while dispatches from other sources
report Adrianople In flames. and state
that there has been Fighting in the
vicinity Of the besieged city ever since
The peace ne gotiations began. Refn-
gees who have escaped through the
lines 10 Muslapha PIcna declare that
/ rriaFTy buildings IN fhs Vicinity OF the
Selim Mosque were alre when they
left Starvation as threatening the
non comhatant population, and TO add
10 the hardxlitps the heavy rains of
the past week have swollen the rivers
out of their hanks, inundating a large
section Of the city.
Turks Lose ooo.
The Turks sustained a less Of two
thousand today at SerowisT In a fsght
with tie Greeks. The Turks were re-
trratfne from Mcrastir. VIXEN they were
crertnk N by a Greek detachment and
heavy firhting ensaed. The Turks were
completely routed.
The Austro- Servian' situst ton IL
causing much uneasiness. II Is report
ed that Austria has decided TO send
squadron TO Dufaxzo to prevent the
Threatened occupation by the Servfans.
who insist upon having the city as an
outlet for Serv!an commerce Austria
wifi also make military deme nstra-
tion against Belgrade. the Servian
capital.
When the news OF these proposed
moves by Austria reached Belgrade. II
caused murh excitement in the city.
After a meeting of the cabinet TO dis
cuss the situation, the rumor became
current that Servfa would withdraw
all Ter field troops In order to be pre-
pared to counteract Aust-ia's hostile
moves with a concentration. The
newspapers in extra editions demand
ed that the Servisn troops now afseld
in Turkey he recalled and sent to pro-
tect The Servian frontier.
Austris Watches Closely.
That the situation IL being closely
watched by Austria is evidenced by
the fact that Fmnerur Francis Joseph
held several conferences at the palace
in Vienna today. Two CT the con-
ferenees lasted rore than an hour
each The emperor first received
Archduke Francis Ferdinand. heir TO
the throne and chief Of the geneia al
stan cf she army: the minister of war
and finally. Foreign Min ster Won
Rerchtold. and the Hun sarian minis
ter of national defense.
81. Petersburg. too. reports con-
fe~enees hearing on the general sit
vation. The czar during the day re-
ceived Foreign Minister S,xoncn and
War Minister Sukhom!Inoff. No in
formation was gwen out as to the sub
Jecte nnde~ discussion. ',,-f
Nazirn Rev AMI five hundred Of
f'cers ~ the Turkish force which ga--
rtscnef Sa1crica. when the Greeks
took the city, were arrested today.
charged with nlo'tiny tn retake the
city. These officers had been granted
paroles. and following their nrres.
their naroies were cancelled, and they
fContinued on Second Pare1