New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-08
King Ferdinand's Army Deter.
mined to Possess CONSTANT
nople Before Beginning
Negotiations for
Peace.
BIG BATTLE IN PROGRESS
Ambassadors of the Powers Cause
Entertainments To Be Thrown
Up Between the Tcha-
taldja Lines and the
Turkish Capital.
TBy cable to The Tribune. ]


London. Nov. s.-"The Daily Mali
publishes the following from a corre-
spondent, dated Bucharest, THURSDAY.
$50 p. m:
"I have just arrived from Sofia. and
have grounds for believing that Adri.- :.
anople has fallen, but that the Bull
garians are concealing the fact lest the
powers, realizing that decisive point
has been reached in the war, should
intervene before the capture of Con-
stantinople.
extraordinary endeavors have been
made since Monday to prevent the
news from getting out Nothing mas
been issued officially in Sofia except
banalities, and the censorship has been
extended TO all letters
AT Rustchuck. on the frontier the
censorship is rigid.
"I understand that the Adrianople
garrison, being hopelessly steel encir-
cled and having failed in al! its at
tempted sorties, offered to surrender on
Monday on condition that the garrison
| niCht march out with the honUrs oi
| war.
"Th,s was refused and the lombard
ment was continued.
"The entire garrison surrendered uh-s
conditionally on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, with the utmost energy
and haste. an overwhelming force Is
being concentrated with the object Oh
DESTROYING the last Turkish army ana
occupying Constantinople, so thst ahy
intervention by the powers will follow
an accomplished fact.
| "The Bulgarians are determined 20
posses the Turkish capital. All OF ther
available troops are being rushed 70
the front from Macedonia including
even Servian troops.
The Bulgarian losses hitnerlo nave
been enormous. Trains throughou'
Bulgaria are filed, the least severely
wounded being sent to their homes out
all their sacrifices will be repaid by
their great final coup.
At the TchataIdia Lines.
Retweon the Bulgarian army ana
Constantinople now stand oniy he
Tchataldja forts, which are held by an
| army that has suffered a series OF
crushing defeats, and that mas oeen
rendered il is believed in military
circles incapable of making. any sus-
ta,ned defence against vigorous as
sault. Some villages in the vicinity OF
this last line Of defence are reported
| o,rsadv 70 be In the hands Of the Bull
garians.
The commanders of the Bulgarian
invaders are said to have fixed SUNDAY
next as the day on which they VIII
anter the Turkish capital with their
troops and hold service OF thanks
giving in the Mosque Of ~. Sophia.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is cred
tied I'm some quarters with the inten-
ton Of proclaiming himself in con-
stantinople Emperor Of the Balkans.
News was very meagre yesterday
from the line of forts at TchataidJa' on
which the eyes of the world are turned
II is thought, however. that the last
big battle is in progress along the line
which the Turks once believed 10 DC
manageable. hut on which little re-
lance can now be placed by them.
On the contrary a Constantinopl4
dispatch sets forth the Turkish claim
that there are no Bulgarans befors
Tchataldia and that both armies are
resting. The Turkish reports regard
ing the progress Of the war, however.
have been so consistently misleading
as 10 have little value.
To Stem Routed Army.
Preparations are being made for tha
protection Of the menaced population
OF Constantinople, and at the request
Of the foreign ambassadors intrench-
ments have been thrown up at San
Stefano and at Kiatkane. so that II
the rout that occurred after previous
battles should be repeated. the mob
Of fleeing soldiery can be checked.
The American High School fof Girls
AT Scutari, on the Asia Minor side Of
the Bosporus, has sent its scholars OF
Bulgarian nationality on board one OF
the British cruisers now at Constantl-
nopIe, owing 10 fears for their safety.
according to a news agency dispatch
from the Turkish capital.
In the meantime diplomatic efforts
TO end the war are making no progress.
and the European press Is busy dis
cussing all the aspects Of the settle
ment OF difficult questions. Everything
tends to show that almost irreconcil-
able antagonisms will arise over the
ALLEGATION Of Turkish territory. Seryia