The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-13
TRY TO CUT OUT
The Turks Make Desperate
SOrtie at AdrianOple.
Driven Back by BuIgarians
After Five Hours Fight.
RUSSIA IN PEACEFUL MOOD
Allies Are Inclined to Keep Out
of COnStantinOple.
Would Have the MOSIem Cap
itaI a Free City.
RUSSIA IN PEACEFUL MOOD

Sofia. Nov 13-A desperate sortie
was made by the Turkish garrison OF
Adrianople yesterday according to g
dispatch to the Mir. After five hours
back by the Bulgarian besiegers. The
Turks lost heavily.
Russia Won't Fight.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 13.-Russia does
not intend to go to war over the Qucs-
ton of Servia obtaining a port on the
Adriatic sea according to Sergius
Sazonoff, the Russia foreign minister
NJ. Sazonoff informed NJ. Popovitch.
the Servian minister here, that this de-
cision had been reached as the result
of conversations between the German
ambassador to Russia and himself.
The Novoe Vremya and other newspa-
pers denounce the Russian government
policy as one of vacillation and sur
render Premier Kokovesoff expressed
the opinion today that the dispute be-
tween Servia and Austria would be
settled by compromise.
Wants Free Cities.
Vienna, Nov IA significant dis
patch from St. Petersburg is published
today in the Neues Wiener TagoIatt.
1t says:
1.-The attitude of official circles in
st. Petersburg in their judgment of
Austro-Servian has undergone a radi-
off has given the Servian minister to
Russia to understand that Russia will
take no direct part in the question of
a port on the Adriatic, but will leave it
to be settled by negotiations between
Austria and Servia in regard to which
Russia is willing to give Servia her
friendly support while avoiding any
tension of Austro-Russian relations
The Bulgarian government has so
far not shown itself favorable to the
idea of entering Constantinople, ac-
cording to NJ. Natovitch, former Bull
view with the correspondent of the
Neue Freie Presse at Sofia, Bulgaria.
He said he wanted to have CONSTANT
nopIe and Saloniki made free cities.
The Bulgarian army, he continued,
would halt before Constantinople and
leave the fate of the Turkish capital
to the decision of the powers.
Position Is Hopeless.
St Petersburg. Nov. 13.-The Tur-
kish council of war has decided that
the position of the army defending
Constantinople is hopeless, says a dis
patch from the Turkish capital.
Crisis Is Over.
London Nov. 13.-'The crisis is
over declared the Vienna Zeit today
in commenting on the Balkan war sit
uation as it regards a possible entang-
ling Of the powers through the Aus
trian-Servian dispute about the latter's S
desire for an Adriatic seaport.
But despite this. tangles to the COM
plicated situation arose both among
the triumphant allies and in Constan-
tinopIe itself still holding out against
the Bulgarian armies.
1t was broadly limited in communi-
cation to a Constantinople newspaper
that Abdul Hamid will soon be restor-
ed to the throne of Turkey, from
which he was deposed a few years ago
in the Young Turks revolution.
Jealousy among the allies became
more apparent today, when it was
learned that Bulgarians who followed
the Greeks into Saloniki, which the
latter captured. telegraphed to King
Ferdinand of Bulgaria that the town
was under his scepter-"
Much bad feeling is evident in Ath-
ems over the incident, and, possibly in
connection with the theory that Greece
may be compelled to fight to hold the
city later against present friends ad-
ditional reserves hav been called out.