The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
sultan who Once Was Ono Of the
Worlds Miahtiest Potentates is
Today Almost Down
and Out.
|CoNTINUAL DEFEAT
suIsarians Are Now Hammerins
Away on the Last Stand Of the
Turks Who Are Fighting
Desperately.
Latest from the salkan..

Latest From the Balkans.
Reported Turks want armistice:,
Persistent rumors Adrianople has
fallen.
Turks, penned on peninsula thirty
miles square, last OF sultan's European
possessions, in final stand against
Bulgarians.
British admiralty orders battle
ships and destroyers to sea, presum-
ably in fear OF Balkan complications.
Terrible slaughter and frightful
suffering Of wounded on Turkish
battlefields.
Bulgarian ruler vows to make st.
Sophia mosque again christian
church.
Ottoman troops kill and burn as
they retreat.
Servians and Greeks still advance.
No surrender at Scutari.
Powers, distracted by fears OF Bal
kan wars spread, still deadlocked
concerning Intervention.
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VIENNA, NOV. 2.-Once among the
mightiest OF the worlds potentates,
the sultan could claim actual juris-
diction tonight over the European
dominion OF barely 1000 square miles.
or trifle less than the state Of
Rhode Island boasts.
A Bulgarian army was hammering
at the defenses even OF this tiny
patch and it seemed question OF no
more than hours. or OF e few. days at
most before the enemy would be in
control OF the Turkish capital itself.
That. the Ottoman government had
asked the Balkan allies for an arrnis-
tice was rumored. The report lacked
confirmation here, but it was consld.
cred more than likely, and IL an arm
istice had been asked, 1t was agreed
that its only purpose could be a dis
cussion OF the best terms OF s,irren.
der the sultan could make.
The rectangle OF European terri
tory which the Ottoman ruler is still
controlling Is bounded on the north
by the Black Sea, on the east by the
Bosphorus, on the south by the Sea
Of Marmora and on the west by a
chain OF forts extending from the
town of Kara Burun. on the Black
Sea coast to SilivrL on the Sea OF
Marmora.
Behind these Notifications the
shattered remnant of Turkeys army
was making its last stand, There
were reports that fighting was II
progress between the defenders o
Constantinople and the Bulgarian in
vaders all day long. Whether the,
were true or not it was certain tina
there will be fighting unless the Turks
surrender soon.
Outside the Ottoman capitals de
lenses there was fighting, at an.
rate. The Bulgarians were striving
to wipe out Turkish army of man,
thousand men which, beaten at LILLE
Burgas, was striving to save itself be
hind the sheltering line of forts. Tha
the harrassed Mohammedans would
succeed In effecting even this TEN
porary success seemed doubtful. Th,
Bulgarians completely surrounds
them and their only cope was in cut
ting way through Tie enemy's ranks
Just how many of the disorganizet
Turkish troops reached the fortified
lions safely and how many wer,
striving to reach there tonight wa
not known here
Except for Constantinople and it
immediate environs eastern Turke.
has fallen completely into Bulgarian
hands. The Servians and Greeks hol,
the west.
Between the Bulgarian east and tn
Servian and creek west is stri
LOO miles long by fifty or sixty broad
which is kind OF no mans land. TIL
sultan has lost 1t but 1t has not we
peen entered by the allies, too bus
elsewhere to have given 1t their a
tention as yet. Rowing through 1t ar
few small detachments OF Turks
troops, cut off from headquarteri
leadership, pay, supplies, or ammun
ton and dependent wholly ON wha
lney can seize from the helpless MOI
combatants who look on them as s
many bandits and who are treated b
mem as not even bandits would trea
their victims, perhaps, anywher
else in the world