Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-11-14
OTTOMAN NOW
ASKS HELP
AT ONCE
POWERS ARE ASKED TO ARRANGE
ARMiSTICE TO PREVENT FURTHER
FIGHTING UNTIL PEACE CAN Be
PERMANENTLY ARRANGED

ish armies beaten in every batlie dur
ing the months war and now behlnt
the Notifications at TchatalJa defend
ing the capital OF the empire, the
Ottoman government has appealed
to Bulgaria for an armistice pending
the opening Of negotiations for peace
according to an official dispatch re-
ceived from Constantinople today
What terms, if any, Turkey has pro
posed have not been disclosed. They
must, however, in the opinion of di'
plomats, be unlimited if they are to
prove acceptable to Bulgaria. With
the last defenseS on ConStantinople
almost in her hands, Bulgaria is I'M
likely to consent to any armistice eX-
cept on conditions giving her full mill
tary advantage.
Turkey will have the support of
the European powers in her request
for a cessation of hostilities. The
representatives of the various ma
tions at Sofa have now received full
instructions regarding the proposal Of
mediation and they held a meeting
at noon today to discuss the method
to be adopted for making the COM
muncation of the Turkish request to
the Bulgarian cabinet
The armistice asked for by Turkey
will affect only the fighting at the
Tchatalja Notifications while the step
the European powers have taken has
the object Of putting an end to the
wal i'll all parts of the Balkan penin-
sula
Until the powers succeed in in
fuencing the allies in the direction
of peace, the fighting at Adrianople,
Monistir Scutari and in other por-
tions of Turkeys European domina-
ton, will continue, nc matter how
Bulgaria regards the appeal made by
Kiamili Pasha.
While therefore Turkeys recogni-
ton 0! the realities mas smoothed the
path of diplomacy and may result In
Constantinople, the Dardanelles and
perhaps some other parts of her Euro
pean possessions being left to her,
and prevent a scramble for them by
the powers, there still are some seri-
Gus questions to be dealt with. Among
these are, notably, those of the posi-
tion of Albania and of the Servian am
bition to have port on the Adriatic
sea.
The Albanians are taking steps to
make their country Independent and
besides publishing proclamation
have issued a protest against any
attempt to interfere with the freedom
and integrity of the country. The
organization also makes the charge
that the Servians have secretly mur-
dered all the Albanian prisoners OF
war. AS to the Adriatic, which ac-
cording to a report from Alessio to-
day, the Servians have not yet reach
ed, there is no official change either
in the Austro-Italian or the Servian
attitude.
A dispatch from Alessio confirms
the previous reports that the Monte
negrin army advancing on that town
has suffered a reverse. The Monte
negrins We're unable to take the town
owing to the Mirdite tribesmen join
ing forces with the Turks. The Mon
tenegrins were driven back as far as
the Boyana river.
London, Nov. 14-Otficial confrma-
ton that Kiamil Pasha has address
ed King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, di-
rectly, asking for the conclusion of an
armistice pending the negotiation OF
peace preliminaries, was received
here from Constantinople this morn
ing.
Berlin, Nov ii -Insinuations that
the Bulgarians have been gully OF
atrocities against the Turks and
that the present war is more of a
butchery than orderly warfare, are
made by the correspondent Of the
Vossische Zeitung. Telegraphing
from Semlin, Hungary, on the oppo-
site side of the river from Belgrade, /
the correspondent declares he has
been reliably informed that the Bull
garian troops mutilated the bodies OF
the Turkish soldiers after the battle
of Kirk-Kilisseh and carried Turks
heads about on the points of their !
bayonets. He continues: "Barbarism /
is fighting barbarism, and century
old hate is fighting centry-old oppres-
sion"
Berlin, Nov. 14.-The reports OF .
atrocities committed by the Servian .
troops on the Albanians are confirm /
ed by Captain Persius. correspondent |
of the Tageblatt, writing from Uskup. !
He says he witnessed the burning
of Albanian villages and heard from /
eye witnesses of the reck- !
less shooting not only of men, but of
women. The Servians, he adds, ad-
mitted they were carrying on war
of determination against the Alban-
ians, whom Servian officers declared
must be swept from the face of the
earth"
Sofia, Nov. 1.-THE Turkish request
for mediation by the powers was pre-
sented to tho Bulgarian premier this
afternoon by the ministers of the great
powers. Premier Guechoff promised
to submit it at headquarters immed-