Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-05
EUROPEAN POWERS
ARE IN DISACCORD
OVER INTERVENTION
Turks Must Go on Fighting
for Present or Surrender
Absolutely to BuIgarianS in
the Field
CBy Associated Press. }

kby Associated EreSSs)
N LONDON. Nov. 4-The powers thus
far consulted have responded to Tur-
keys appeal for mediation by declaring
they could make only proposals for
peace and could not approach the Balkan
nations with a request for an armistice.
The war must therefore continue, and
the Turkish army, which the porte has
at last admitted has been beaten, must
keep on with it's unequal struggle
against the victorious invaders.
1t is hoped and believed still that
the powers will soon find a formula UNI
der which they can offer their good Of
fees.
The terms of peace themselves are
matter entirely for the belligerents to
settle, Bulgarians having affirmed that
no interference from the outside will be
tolerated In this she has the support
OF her allies, who settled the political
as well as the military aspect of the
campaign before the war was under
taken.
The negotiations which were taking
place among the powers when Turkey
sprang the surprise of asking for media
ton were not over-successfuI.
In the meantime the war is going on,
and what was left of the Turkish army
after the defeat at Luleburgas is rush
ing for supposed safety behind the line
OF forts at Tchatalja with the Bulgari-
an left trying to put them off, 1t is
suggested in some quarters that Maxim
Pasha, the Turkish commander-in-chief,
has received achievements and is max
ing a last desperate stand to cover the
retreat of his shattered forces. There
is nothing. however. to confirm this be-
lief and the best informed correspon-
dents agree that only scattered rem
nants of the Ottoman army will be able
to reach the lines of TchataIja-
BLOODIEST OF WARS.
While the number of troops engaged in
the series of battles fought between the
Turkish and Bulgarian armies in Thrace
during the last fortnight was not so
large as that of the armies that fought
in the Russo-Japanese war, yet this
probably was the most savage and
bloody war ever fought in Europe.
The fighting is followed by many mas
sacres by the Turkish soldiery, the bru-
tality Of which is hardly believable. The
reports issued by the Bulgarians are
probably exaggerated, but the accounts
of independent witnesses show. that the
situation in this respect is very bad
Asked as to the position of war cor
respondents with the Turkish army,
railway official who came from Lule-
burgas said:
Il should not give much for their
chances. as it win go hard with any
Christians who fan into the hands OF
the Turkish irregulars. These are en-
tirely beyond the control of their officers
and they have been perpetrating wanton
acts Of cruelty all along the line of re-
treat.
The losses of the two armies are mere
guesswork. but that they have been eX-
tremelx heavy goes without saying, and
it is probable that the Bulgarlans, who
attacked fortified positions, lost even
more than the Turks
LOSSES VERY HEAVY.
One correspondent says 10000 Turks
have fallen since the battle of Kirk-Kil-
isseh and another that they lost 10000
at Luleburgas. At the Bulgarian minis
try of war, according to dispatch from
Sofia the names of 1900 dead Bulgarian
soldiers have been listed and it is known
that during the last few days 10000 Bull
garians were wounded, half OF them Sc
siously.
Nowhere on the scene of the operations
have there been adequate hospital facili-
ties and from all accounts those on the
Turkish side are almost useless.
A correspondent, retreating with the
Turkish army, telegraphs that for thirty
miles he passed wounded men, either
lying on the ground or being trans
ported on bullock carts, while others
painfully dragged themselves along.
They had no food and there was not
q habitation within twenty miles. The
Turkish hospitals consist chiefly of
bearer companies and the transport
wagons carry no nourishment for the
wounded.
The Servian troops still are sweeping
through Macedonia.
The Montenegrin troops at Scutari and
the Greek army in the south continue
to make progress. The Greeks on the
way to Salonid took iJanitza after two
days fighting.
The arrival of foreign warships at
Saloniki and the approach of the Greek
army to the town have had tranquiliz-
ing effect on the population.
At STEAMBOAT more patrols have been
placed ON the streets and every prepara-