The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-08
CHRISTIAN MASSACRE WILL FOLLOW
Fall Of the Sultan's City is But Matter Of
Day or So and Then Blood Will Flow
Like Water.

and that they are sure to put up a
desperate fight il attacked.
II disorders break out, as seemed
likely today, they will take the form
OF a desperate battle in the streets,
in which more than 100000 men,
women and children will be involved.
! The bloodshed probably will be fright
lful.
Business, Constantinople messages
| said, is practically suspended. Most
Of the shops are not only shut but
boarded up.
There were few people in the norm
ally crowded streets. Nineteen-twen.
tieths of the men were scattered
along the line of the Chatalja de-
fenses and the Turkish women do not
venture much out of DOORS
Occasionally detachment of Asia
side of the Bosphorus ragged, black
4 bearded, swarthy, ferocious-looking
i tramped through the town, on their
way to the fighting line. Cavalry
patrols with jingling spurs and rat
ting sabres. clattered about on the
i lookout for the first signs Of an up.
i rising Couriers dashed about with
j messages from Chatalja for the war
office or with instructions from tns
i ofiic ais here to the commander al
4 the front. Occasionally the closed
carriage of cabinet minister, sur
/, rounded by compact group of cav
alrymen, pulled up at the administra
tion Offices on the Stamboul side OF
the Golden Horn or galloped madly
away over the rough cobblestones on
desperately urgent business OF the
tottering government.
At either side of the open draw In
the Galata bridge-open to preven,
!, rioters from crossing the Golden
Horn on a mission Of pillage and
murder in the foreign quarters
crowd OF soldiers lounged, their bay
onets fixed, ready for trouble.
!. Several minutes walk up the roat
i from the bridge, in the foreign busi
\ ness -Galata-another mill
! tary detachment stood guard over tn.
= imperial Ottoman bank.
: Alarming Situation.
e VIENNA, Nov. S.-The information
r al situet ton was alarming again today
n Both here and at Berlin the bourse:
were depressed ard diplomats anx
! ious.
If Servia insists on an outlet to th'
n Adriatic, high officials here said plain
ri ly. Austria will be compelled to re
4 sort to the army. Servia is insisting
III It was considered unlikely that 81
a small a country would defy Austrii
!. unless assured Of the support of som
j. powerful outside power. or course
diplomats agreed, this nation must b
q Russia. This was regarded as rails
ing the danger of an Austro-Russi
clash again.
A Belgrade message quoted Serv
ans statesmen as saying. their cour
try fought for the sole purpose Of tai
= = ing the ports of Durazzo, Sangsovanr
= De Media and Alesco from Turke
and they do not propose to be cheate
. out of the fruits Of victory.
- Slaughter Commenced.
le SOFIA, Nov. S.-Turkish soldier
have massacred inhabitants of tn
Z town of Silivri and set the town
n FIRE it was reported here today.
81 was said the slaughter began whe
at the people resisted the seizure OF a
p-i their food by the starving troop
siliyri la at the southern extremity
o. the Chatalja fortiflcations, on the Sc
at Of Marmora. It's population is abol
We 5000.
e- Danger Of General War.
ps PARIS, Nov. S.-"The danger OF
n general European war, growing out
lie the Balkan struggle, is extremel
graye.' said ex-Foreign Ministt
= F,ourens in an interview here today
cd .If the powers had wished to pr
be vent the present struggle they coul
20 have done SO easily by forcing Tu
- kew to grant reforms in its Buropea
ha nroyinces. Now we are at the mere
a. of events.
- "The trouble is that the powers al
80 80 not working toward the same end."