Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-11-11
Nations Prepare for
Immediate War as
Turkish Capital Is
Tottering.
TURKS CLAIM TO HAVE
WON AT ADRIANOPLE
SuItan's Commander Announces
That BuIgarians Were Re-
puIsed-BattIe Marked by
Desperate Bayonet Charges.
BULLETIN.

USKUP. Turkey, Nov. 1.-THE van
guard of the servian army has reached
the cOast of the Adriatic Sea. 1t met
no armed resistance during its march
through Albania, but its progress was
slow on account OF the deep snow.
LONDON, Nov. 11.-Europe is fac
ing one of the most critical weeks in
her history. 1t may end in war In
which the whole of Europe will be in
volved, or 1t may be remembered as
a week in which diplomacy succeeded
in solving problems that appeared in
solua BILE to many.
The powers are already making
preparations for a conflict.
The Bulgarian army is on the point
of entering Constantinople, and this
will be resented by Russia. At the
same time, the Turkish capital is
threatened with massacre from with
in.
On the other side of the Balkan
peninsula there is an acute conflict
between the aims of Austria Hungary
and Servia, which, If it Is not ar
ranged, might start general Euro
pean outbreak.
Germany and Bulgaria Work for Peace
The most hfpeful sign at the pres
ent moment she fact that moderat-
ing infiuen re being brought to
bear by r Y, the close ally of
Austria-I and by Bulgaria,
the COM IS of Servia. Both
of the are now exerting
themselves TO avert conflict.
The VIEWS of Austria Hungary con-
cerning the future Of European Tur-
kew are prerry-sveff -it17tAvnl attysincfude
access to the Eastern markets, the
integrity of Albania, including the
Adriatic coast of that country, and
compensation for Roumania, which
has always claimed that when the
Bulgarian territory is extended her
borders should likewise spread.
Joint servian-Austrian Port Proposed.
The Austro- Hungarian minister AZ
Belgrade, who has just returned TO
his post. informed the Servian gov
ernmeat of these proposals and sug-
gested that reasonable settlement
would be that Austria, in return for
correspondents
kan ports and on the railroads lead
ing to them, should give Seryla run
ming privileges. over the line that IS
to be built to the port of Durazzo and
that the two countries should to-
gether use the port as free port.
The existing jealousies are SO in
tense. however, that it will take a
lot of pressure to induce either Aus
tria or Servia to recede from its
demands. Austria, in fact, takes so
seriously the advance of a Servian
force toward the port of Durazzo
that she has dispatched a steamer
there to take off Austrian residents
when the Servian troops arrive.
Russia Preparing for War.
Seryia's friend, Russia also is
preparing for eventualities. Beside
keeping her time-expired men in the
army she is mobilizing her forces.
At Sebastopol transports have been
prepared to convey Russian troops
across the Black sea, and her ar
senals and commissariat departments
are working night and day.
The situation at Adrianople con-
tinues something of riddle. The
Bulgarians claim to have absolutely
surrounded the city. A short cable
dispatch. however, was received to-
day from within the Turkish lines.
This had been sent off on Saturday
and somehow reached Odessa. 1t re-
peated the claim made by Turkish
official dispatch of a Bulgarian re-
verse in the Maras zone.
The Turkish authorities owing to
the protests of the foreign ambassa-
dors now disclaim any intention of
proclaiming a holy war They give
labored explanation that the sending
of a hundred Mohammedan priests
to preach to the troops does not real
ly mean holy war. They say their
intention was to inspire the Turkish
troops with religious fervor
A special dispatch from Constants
nople says that in the opinion OF
European doctors the disease which
has broken out among the wounded
is certainly Asiatic cholera. Sew
eral batallions of Syrian troops have
been repatriated apparently on ac-
count of cholera. The dispatch adds
that there are $4,000 troops in the
AlOOd VI VINO
have not been engaged in the lighting
yet, and as they are better fed they
are likely to give a good account of
themselves at the Tchatalja lines.
The European powers most inti-
mate'y concerned in the Balkan situ-
alton have undertaken to extend pro-
lection to Americans in Turkey. The
various American embassies in Eu-
rope We're instructed, when informing
the various nations of the decision Of
the United States to send the cruisers
Tennessee and the Montana to the
coast of Asiatic Turkey, to inquire
whether provision had been made or
was contemplated by them in the in
terest of American citizens in Turkey
Replies ind cate that instructions is
sued by Great Britain and Russia an
scanslnurd on Second PaKc.)