The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-08
WAR
 LOOMS BIGGER
 THAN EVER NOW
Conflicting Reports of Turkeys Proposal 10 Surrender and Sutan'S Determination
 to Fight to the Last Ditch

Paris, Nov. S-Since the Balkan war broke out, the danger of 8 general Flu ropean struggle has never seemed so great as today. Though Maxim Pasha, the Turkish commander, was quoted as declaring that he would fight to the last ditch, his boast was generally considered here as mere attempt to delay an outburst of the peoples rage against the government, whose ineffi- cheney and corruption have ruined the country. The more reliable informa- tion was that the Turks had asked the Bu1garians for terms of the surrender of Constantinople and that the Bulgar- ians had replied it must be surrender internationally.
 The European international crisis will then be at hand. The Balkan al- lies propose to divide Turkey among themselves regardless of outsiders wishes.
 ton of Sofia reports that Turkey has opened negotiations for surrendering Constantinople to the BuIgarians, a Constantinople message, today, decIar- ed Nazirn Pasha, the Ottoman war minister and coTnnander-in-chief, has determined to continue to fight to the
 
 c1ared that he will contest every step of the way to the Bospborus and, if driven out of Europe, reorganize his forces in Asia and go on with the war
 Budapest, Nov. s-That Turkey has opened negotiations with the B1Igar- nop1e was reported here, today, on good authority. It was interpreted as meaning that the Sultan has acquiesc- ed in the allies demands that peace overtures be addressed directly to themselves instead of being made to TypRus sr,S R@ has has lsroken, out in Adrianople, EaGeordlnrI ,f "a, despatch from Sofia and the yass defenders gre dying-2y
 constantsa, Roumania, Nov s-A disease resembling cholera has broken out among the wounded in Constantl- nople, it was learned here today on ; The, situation in. the sultan's capital has been growing desperate since the Turks were driven back to. the Chat alja line of 1defenses. The government has done it's utmost to prevent the people from learning how hopeless IS leaked out. Today everyone knew the city was in imminent peril Of cap ture.
 ton of the male population is at the front has prevented the native quar- ters from getting completely beyond
 
 to the city. however. the government will not be able to keep order.
 The native Christians will not be slaughtered without a fight, however. eoTrespondents who have suggested that the Christians were likely to be out down like sheep apparently have not taken into account the fact that they are, if anything, more numerous than the Mohammedans in ConstantI- nople, that they have been in arms at the front, that they still have their n are a desperate fight.
 If disorders break out in Constanti- nople they will not take the form so much of a massacre as a desperate battle in the streets in which 100000 | men. women and children will be in volved: Quarter will be neither given nor asked and the blOodShed probaofy i will be frightful.
 Business is practically suspended in the Turkish capital The ba zaars are almost deserted. Almost all the shops 1 are closed and boarded up. Ninet cen 1 twentieths of the men were scattered l along the line of the Chata1ja defenses and the Turkish women do not venture much out of doors.
 Occasionally, a detachment Of Asia'tr 1 troops just landed from the other side of the BosphoruS-ragged, black beard i ed swarthy, ferociouS looking-tranlp- | ed through the streets. Their rifles | were their shoulders and they were on their way to the fighting line Cavalry patrols, with jing1ng spurs | and rattling sabres, clattered about on i the lookout for the first sign of an | uprising Couriers dashed inadly i about with messa ges from Ghatalja to 1 the war office or with instructions | from the officials here to the com mauders at the front. Occasionally, | the closed cabs of the cabinet minis ters surrounded by a. compact group of cavalrynlen. pulled up at the of Golden Horn or ga1loped madly away over the rough cobblestones on desper- ately urgent business of the tottering government
 At either side of the open draw in the Galatea bridge, open to prevent on a mission of pillage and murder in the foreign quarter, a crowd of sol diers lounged, their bayonets fixed, ready for trouble.
 Several minutes walk up the road from the bridge, in the foreign bus tary detachment stood guard over the Empire Ottoman Bank. There was a cluster in front of the American Elm bassy in the Rue Cabristin and at several hotels with several more on duty at the embassies and important avenue De Pera, Constantinople's 
 Here and there in the Pera district an American, an Englishman, a Ger man, an Austrian or a Frenchman was to be seen on the street. his eyes roaming constantly about on the look put for signs of hosti1ities and gener- ally with a heavy cane in his hand pr a significant bulge in side picket. There were wounded soldiers, too, soldiers not too badly wounded to- be, about, hobbling painfully along heads, arms or legs wrapped in bloody bandages.