The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-16
SITUATION IN THE
BALKANS CAUSING
MUCH PERPLEXITY
Many Reports Filter in
But None Are Con-
firmed
CHOLERA RAVAGES
ARE TREMENDOUS
Bulgarians May Not Care to Enter
Observation-Disclosures That an
Armistice Has Been Arranged
Is Not Confirmed

! London, November 16.-As the c q
sorship permits no news to come fiv
the front, the situation at the scene of
the lighting in the Balkans is more
perplexing than ever tonight.
Various reports have drifted in. how
ever. among them that Adrianop1e has
fallen, that the Bulgarians had cap
tured Hademkeui, the headquarters of
the Turkish commander in chief that
Nazim Pasha, the Turkish generalissi-
mo, had capitulated and that the Bull
garians, either by sea or land, had
reached the vicinity of Kilios, on the
Black sea coast, short distance from
Constantinople. These reports are still
without confirmation. a vague dispatch
is published at Sofia stating that six
forts along the Tchatalja line have been
captured after what are described as
heavy sacrifices on the part of ths
Bulgarians.
All the reports previously published
through the Vienna Reichspost and en-
anating from other sources, go TO show
that the BuIgarians are having no
easy task. Nothing is known as to
whether the battle continues. The Brit
ish government has received no news
from the seat of war for some days.
Cholera Outbreaks Serious
What perhaps is of graver impor-
tance than the progress of the hostil-
titles in southeastern Europe. however,
is the revelation of the tremendous
ravages cholera is making. not only
among the destitute refugees who daily
are arriving in thousands at Constan-
tinople. but among the Turkish troops
on the Tchatalja lines. 1t is supposed
that this danger well might suffice to
give the Bulgarian commanders a pause
and induce the Bulgarian government
to arrange an armistice and negotiate
peace, since all the practical objects
for which the war was undertaken al
ready have been secured and there
fore it is useless to run the risk OF
an epidemic of cholera in the Bulga-
rian army for the sake of formal en-
try into Constantinople TO avoid which,
| IL is believed, Turkey is ready TO agree
to almost any terms.
A significant article appears in the
Bulgarian government organ Mir 1t
declares that peace is imminent and
holds out the olive branch TO Turkey
to enter into a good understanding
with the Balkan league.
May Not Enter Constantinople
A Constsntinople dispatch to the Co
logne Gazette declares that Bulgaria has
abandoned her intentions to enter Con-
stantinople being thus advised by Russia
and Great Britain. Altogether, although
the report that an armistice already has
been arranged has not been confirmed,
all indications point In that direction,
and 1t may be supposed that the terrible
conditions of famine and destitution pre-
vailing among the refugees in the peigh-
borhood of Constantinoples which are
calculated to provide hotbed for the
spread of cholera, may have had sone-
thing to do with Bulgarias decision.
From other points at the seat of war
comes news of the occupation OF the
peninsula OF Mount Athos by the Greeks
and the march of the Greek army from
Salonild to join in the Servian attack
on Monastir This attack, according TO
Belgrade dispatch, began yesterday
with an encounter between Turkish snd
Servian cavalry near the city of Mon
astir.
A report received at Berlin asserts that
disorders are occurring at Salonild. Bull
garian and Greek soldiers are said to be
plundering and maltreating the Moham-
medan Inhabitants who are besieging the
foreign consulates for protection.
The Turkish government issued a batch
of dispatches signed by war correspond
ents of the Paris Temps and Journal
Des Debats, the Berlin Bokal Anzeiyer
and Tageblatt, the London Daily Mail
and other European papers, denying re-
ports of atrocities alleged TO have been
committed by Turkish troops.
Talks of Peace
A dispatch TO the Morning Post from
Constantinople says:
called at the Russian embassy today
and conferred with NJ. De Geirs, the
ambassador, on the subject of peace
in the presence of NJ. Peppoff, first
Dragoma of the Bulgarian legation,
who has been studying at the Russian
embassy since the outbreak of the war.
The Bulgarans demand the surrender
Of the Turkish army at Tchatalja as n
necessary condition TO the cessation os
the advance on the apital and allowed
the Turks IS hours In which to arrise
ct a decision. This period having
elapsed and the porte growing uneasy,
Miamil Pasha visited NJ. De Giers.
News arrived here Tonight that
Rodesto a port on the Sea of Marmorip
held by the Bulgarians. IS in flames
and that the Turks cruisers are bonn
harding all along the coast. but to no
useful purpose"
Battle OF M0nastir Begins
The Daily Telegraph's Uslup CORES
oondent under Thursday date, SAYS: