Connecticut western news., 1912-11-14
TURKEY SAD TO BE SEEKING PEACE
Sultan Determined hot to Be
 Taken Alive.
FEAR HOLY WAR MASSACRE.

No Security For 100000 Christians In ConstantinopIe if Buears Enter Cap ital-Asquith Claims Powers Are In Full Agreement - AdrianopIe Forts Taken by the Bulsarians.
 A special cable from Constantinople says, '"The Turkish government has begun pourparlers with the Balkan states" This means that Turkey con- fesses her defeat and Is asking terms of peace from her cOnquerors.
 The latest bulletins from the front re- port:
 First.-That the call for the holy war issued by the Sheik ul-Isam has set thousands of fanatics wild; that they are staying women and children
 wherever they find them unprotect- ed, both in ConstantinopIe and other cities.
 capital is only matter of days, pos sibIy of hours, as the allies are push ing a terrific attack on the famous
 Tchatalia forts, the only remaining defenses of the capital. Third.-That the sultan. has determin- ed not to be taken alive and will offer no security for the 100000 Christians if the BuIsars enter the capital. Fourth.-That the embassies are all
 under guard and that the United States warship Scorpion will do all that is possible to aid refugees. Fifth.-That the division between the two groups of great powers, Cor
 many, Austria and Italy on the one hand and France, Great Britain and Russia on the other, over the policy to be followed when the war is over threatens the peace of all Europe.
 Premier Asquith made statement on the situation in the near east Tt the lord mayors inaugural banquet at the Guildhall. During the course of this statement he said:
 ~Upon one thing l believe the gen eral opinion of Europe to be unanimous that the victors are not to be robbed of the fruits which cost them so dearly"
 The prime minister referred to the unsuccessful efforts of the powers to prevent the conflict and to the great changes the war had made in the map of Europe. He said the fall of Con- stantinople might occur at any mo- ment and added:
 1n these anxious times it is satisfac- tory to be able to announce that the re- Eations of England with the other pow CTS, without single exception, were never more friendly and cordial.
 NThe great powers are working to- gether with closeness of touch and a frankness and freedom and communt- cation and discussion which is remark able and which may seem almost unin- felligible to those who believe that be- cause for certain purposes the powers have been and are ranged in different groups they must therefore in time of European crisis be arrayed in opposite camps"
 The map of Europe will have to be recast, the premier declared, and no where was there a disposition to belit. tie the magnitude of the struggle or dispute the decisiveness of the result. He added:
 England has no direct interest in the exact form which the political and ter, r1torial redtstributions may ultimately take The special relations of the other powers, geographical. economic, ethical and historical, with the scene of the conflict are such that they cannot be expected not to claim d voice when the time comes for a permanent settle ment"
 The two most important forts about Adrianople, kartelexpe and Popasepe, were stormed by the Bulgarians, who, with the help of searchlight refractors and artillery, drove the Turks away.
 The Bulgarians lost as heavily as their foes.