Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-11-13
FRANCE APPEALEDT0
TURKS ASKS FRENCH PREMIER
TO lNTERcEDE TO END
BALKAN WAR.
POWERS TO TAKE ACTION
Fall Of constantInopIe Is Practically
Sure-Harems Are Sent to Asia
and Massacre 10 Threatened by
the Sultan.

Paris, Nov. THE Turkish Am
bassador. Rifaat Pasha, on Tuesday
night presented at the foreign office
the request of the Turkish govern
ment for mediation. The note says:
THE Ottoman government requests
the great powers to undertake collec-
tive mediation with view to the
immediate cessation of hostilities and
the determination of the conditions
Of peace"
The foreign Office Immediately &C
quainted the legations Of the other
powers with the Turkish request and
notified them that France was ready
to participate in any concerted &C
ton.
NJ. Poincaire emphasized to the
Turkish ambassador that the powers
had agreed not to take action looking
toward mediation unless the belliger-
ents were agreeable.
London, Nov. THE speedy fall
Of Constantinople was inevitable Tues
day night. The Bulgarians have cut
on the capitals water supply by &C.
cupying the town of Decos and have
pushed their advance guard under
the guns of the northernmost forts
Of the chain of defense behind which
the Turks are making their last
stand.
The Bulgarians have occupied the
region between Tchorlu and Tchatalja
and completely surrounded the Turk
ish force in that district The bonn
bardment OF Adrianople continues
without abatement. A large force of
Servians detached from the Servian
army in Macedonia passed through
Sofia to assist in the siege Of the
Turkish stronghold.
The Turkish steamship Chanlee
struck Bulgarian mine in the Black
sea Tuesday and sank. Her crew
and forty passengers were drowned.
The Turkish harems were trans
ferred Tuesday from Constantinople
to Brusa In Asia Minor. fifty miles
southeast of the capital. The archives
OF the city have also been sent there.
Turkey conveyed covert threat
to the powers by intimating to the
Germany foreign office that II the
Bulgarians enter Constantinople It
would be impossible to prevent an
antiChristian uprising. Germany is
more favorably disposed toward the
Turks plea for Intervention by the
powers than the other nations, but
there was no intimation in diplomat
ic circles that the powers will take
any action further than protecting
the Christians in Constantinople.
Three Austrian battleships. a
cruiser and two destroyers. left Pola
for Turkish waters. This action Is
regarded as significant, as Austria
alone Of all the powers is not in
favor Of permitting the Balkan allies
to divide the fallen Turkish territory
among themselves without outside
interference.
The situation in Constantinople is
described as extremely critical. The
embassies and consulates and the
larger foreign business establish
ments are all under heavy guard.
For the most part, the Christians are
covering in their houses. momentar-
lily expecting to hear the Mohamme-
dan mobs crying for their extermina-
ton.
Definite information of reports of
dreadful massacres are lacking. but
hundreds of Christians have been
killed on the coast of the Sea of
Marmora. many isolated missions hav-
Ing been destroyed and their inmates
slain. u. ys.... e.