The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
sultan who Once Was Ono Of the
Worlds Miahtiest Potentates is
Today Almost Down
and Out.
CONTINUAL DEFEAT
suIaarians Are Now Hammerins
Away on the Last Stand Of tho
Turks Who Are Fighting
Desperately.
Latest From the Balkans.
Reported Turks want armistice.
persiatent rumors ACrianople has

Latest From the Haikans-
Reported Turks want armistice.
Persistent rumors Adrianople has
fallen.
Turks, penned on peninsula thirty
miles square, last OF sultan's European
possessions, in final stand against
Bulgarians.
British admiralty orders battle
ships and destroyers to sea, presum-
ably in fear Of Balkan complications.
Terrible slaughter and frightful
suffering Of wounded on Turkish
batfletields.
Bulgarian ruler vows to make ST..
Sophia mosque again christian
church.
ottoman troops kill and burn as
they retreat.
Servians and Greeks still advance.
No surrender at Scutari.
Powers, distracted by fears OF Bal
kan wars spread, still deadlocked
concerning Intervention.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
VIENNA, Nov. 2.-Once among the
mightiest Of the worlds potentates,
the sultan could claim actual juris.
diction tonight over the European
dominion OF barely 1000 square miles,
or q trifle less than the state OF
Rhode Island boasts.
A Bulgarian army was hammering
at the defenses even OF this tiny
patch and it seemed question OF M
moro than hours. or of few days al
most before the enemy would be in
control Of the Turkish capital itself
That the Ottoman government had
asked the Balkan allies for an armis
tice was rumored. The report lacked
confirmation here, but it was consid
cred more than likely, and il an arm
istice had been asked, it was agreed
that its only purpose could be a dis
cussion OF the best terms Of surren
der the sultan could make.
The rectangle OF European terri
tory which the Ottoman ruler is still
controlling is bounded on the nortl
by the Black Sea, on the east by tn,
Bosphorus, on the south by the Sci
Of Marmora and on the west by
chain Of forts extending from tn
town Of Kara Burun, on the Blacl
Sea coast to Silivri. on the Sea o
Marmora.
Behind these fortifcation. tn
shattered remnant of Turkeys arm
was making its last stand. Their
were reports that fighting was i
progress between the defenders c
Constantinople and the Bulgarian IL
vaders all day long Whether the
were true or not 1t was certain the
there will be fighting unless the Turk
surrender soon.
Outside the Ottoman capitals d.
lenses there was fighting, at an
rate. The Bulgarians were strivin
to wipe out a Turkish army of man
thousand men which, beaten at Lul
Burgas, was striving to save itself b.
hind the sheltering line of forts. Tha
succeed in effecting even this ten
porary success seemed doubtful Th
Bulgarians completely Eurrounde
them and their only 1ope was in Gu
ting way through tKe enemy's rank
Just how many OF the disorganize
Turkish troops reached the fortific
tons safely and how many wei
striving to reach there tonight We
not known here.
Except for Constantinople and i
immediate environs eastern Turke
mas fallen completely into Bulgaria
hands. The Seryians and Greeks no
the west.
Between the Bulgarian east and Il
servian and creek west is Str
LOO miles long by fifty or sixty broa
which is a kind OF no mans land. tt
sultan has lost it but it has not y
been entered by the allies, too bu
elsewhere to have given it their ;
1ention as yet. Rowing through it a
few small detachments Of Turki
troops, cut off from headquartel
leadership, pay, supplies, or ammul
ton and dependent wholly on VIII
tney can seize from the helpless nc
combatants who look on them as
many bandits and who are treated
them as not even bandits would tire
their victims, perhaps, anywhe
else in the world
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