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HAVE ARRANGED
AN ARMISTICE
Bulgaria and Turkey Said to.
Have Agreed. ).
INVADERS NEAR CAPITAL

Cholera Has Broken Out Among Otto.
man Troops, Claiming Already Over
5000 Victims.
: London, Nov. 16.-BuIgaria and Tur'
key have agreed upon an armistice,
according to a special news agency
dispatch which reached this city frsm
Bucharest, Roumania.
Following the cessation of hostilities.
1t is expected that negotiations to ar
range terms of peace will be opened
between the beligerents.
Bulgarian troops have reached the
vicinity of Kilios, on the Black sea
coast, at the entrance to the Bos-
phorns and within few miles Of Con
stantinople. The men belonging to the
Turkish lifeboat station there have
left.
The dash of the Bulgarian troops
seems to demonstrate that General
Savoff. the Bulgarian commander-in-
chief, is not wholly depending on q
frontal attack on the line of fortifica'
tions at Tchatalja If strong Bulgar-
ian force is already at Kilios on the
flank of the Turkish army. the fate OF
the Ottoman troops cannot, in military
opinion, remain long In doubt if the
Bulgarian troops decide to enter Con-
stantinople.
The announcement that the BulgAr-
ians had reached the vicinity of Kflioa
came in a single line telegram from
Constantinople. 1t lifts a corner of the
veil which has been battling observers
for some days regarding the move
ments of the victorious invaders in
front of the Ottoman capital.
Their appearance at Kilios shows
that they have managed to creep
around behind what is known as the
forest of Belgrade, on the outskirts ol
Constantinople, and are now close to
Therapia, the summer resort Of the
residents of Constantinople.
Nothing has yet come to hand tq
show whether the Bulgarians at Kilfes
are in strong force or merely de.
tachment of cavalry scouts blazing s
new route to the Turkish capital
There is a strongly defended fort at
Kilios, but this was constructed ~
defend the place from attack by se}
and may be open to assault on q
land side
Whatever hopes the Turks mt!
have had of maintaining the Hne d
defenses at TchataIja have been disst,
pated by the outbreak OF cholera. The
epidemic among the Turkish troops
holding the line of Notifications in
front of Constantinople Is rapidly be-
coming worse. More than 500 cases
are reported daily, and the total num-
Der already exceeds 5000.
An eyewitness declares that he saw
263 bodies buried in one big trench
at Hadembeui. the headquarters of the
Turkish commander-in-c chief, on Tues
day. The bodies we're dragged to the
spot on hooks and dropped into the
trench, which was not nearly deep
enough for the purpose. the covering
of earth being very shallow.
While cholera is undermining the
Turkish defensas it also constitutes a
most formidable opponent to the Bull
garian advance. Constantinople thinks.
and it is generally believed there, that
the outbreak has disposed Of the ques-
tion of even temporary occupation
of Constantinople by the Bulgarian
troops. It is thought unlikely that
Gear Ferdinand of. Bulgaria will risk
the lives of his soldiers in this way II
he can avoid it.
It is stated on good authority that
cholera already has appeared among
the Bulgarian troops. This would not
be at all surprising, seeing that they
occupy the positions where the disease
claimed its first Turkish victims.
y The Bulgarian army on Sunday last
occupied the town of Derkos, at the
Black sea end of the Tchatalja lines,
and thus controls the water supply of
Constantinople. This, however, has not
yet been interfered with.
For the moment the action of Tur-
key in applying direct to Gar Ferdi-
nand of Bulgaria for an armistice has
superseded the proffers Of the powers
to mediate. No official news has yet
leaked out as to the course the nego-
tiations are taking. If 1t be true, as
announced in Berlin, that Osman Nj.
zami Pasha, the Ottoman ambassador
there, has been appointed first Turkish
delegates to Bulgarian-Turkish peace
conference, it would appearthat the
negotiations are making good pro
gress.
That an early peace Is assured IL
accepted as q foregone conclusion, but
whether it will be brought about be
fore or after the surrender of Con.
stantinople is probably known only to
Gear Ferdinand Of Bulgaria and his
aduiSarS