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ALL BALKANS IN
WAR is REPORT
Two More States Join HostiIi-
ties Against Turkey.
MAY INVOLVE Big POWERS
Conflict, If Allowed to Go to Any
Length, May Involve the Whole Of
Europe.

Europe.
London, Oct. 10.-The long-expected
war in the Balkans, that may involve
the whole of Europe, if allowed by the
powers to go to any length, is on.
Following the lead of Montenegro
which declared war against Turkey.
Bulgaria and Servia have broken on
diplomatic relations with Constantine
pie, and a state of war now exists be.
tween the Ottoman government ano
the three kingdoms to the north, acs
cording to advices received in Lon.
don.
A news agency dispatch from Paris
says confirmation of the rupture of
diplomatic relations with Turkey by
both Bulgaria and Servia has been re-
ceiyed there.
If these states have not already de-
clared war it is believed everywhere
that they are on the point OF joining
their mobiliZed armies to that OF Mon
tenegro, whose troops are said to be
generally engaged with the Turks
Balkan nations decide to appeal to
arms about half a million soldiers of
the Balkan states, who have been con-
centrating for the past week, will be
ready to oppose the Turkish army.
The numbers of the Ottoman troops
in European Turkey are understood
to total several hundred thousand. y
1t is generally recognized that the
intervention of the European ambas.
sadors at the Porte cannot now have
any effect. Greece seems for the pres
ent to be holding back. She made her
last protest to the powers against the
seizure by the Ottoman government of
Greek vessels in Turkish waters.
News from the scene of action is
very meager. A dispatch from Con-
stantinople is authority for state
ment that a Montenegrin detachment
which had crossed the frontier has
been annihilated, and that 1000 Al
banian troops have invaded Nontene-
gro. Skirmishes are also reported to
have occurred on the Servian and BuE
garian frontiers. -
A Bulgarian force is reportedand
have crossed the Turkish frontier vine
Gear Ferdinand is said to be hJtfle als
southwark to take command oseY
lied Balkan troops, who,aiL Isl
ed, will advance to give battle te = z
Turkish forces at Mustapha Pasna
with the object of forcing the road tc
Adrianople, where the Turks are con.
centrated in great strength.
Berlin was excited by a report that
Russia had ordered the mobilization of
ten army corps on the western from
tier to be completed in ten days, and
that martial law would then be pro-
claimed in Russian Poland. Some di-
plomats thought Russia was preparing
for the war that might set the powers
at each others throats.
dispatch to the Vienna Neues
Wiener Tageblatt from Oltenitza, Rou-
mania, reports massacre OF Turks
by Bulgarians at Turturkaia, Bulgaria,
on Monday According to the dispatch,
agitators from Rustchuk inflamed the
local Bulgars, and these in the dead
of night attacked the Turkish resi-
dents of the town, Staying all but
few, who escaped across the border to
Oltenitza. Witnesses are quoted as
saying that the police shared in the
slaughter and in the pillage which fol
lowed. On Tuesday morning, the dis
patch states, the street of the Turkish
quarter was lined with piles Of bodies,
among them those of women and chill
dren.