Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-11-13

St. petersburg, NOV. Io.-I urkISI'
counsel of war has decided that the
position of the army defending Con-
stantinople is hopeless, says a dis
patch from the Turkish capital.
The decision was reached after the
council had received communication
from the Ottoman commander-n-chief.
The view is also endorsed by rep
resentative of the Red Crescent So
ciety.
A much more hopeful feeling pre-
vailed today in regard to the inter
national situation created by the Bal
kan war. The situation Is still full Of
difficulties but the attitude Of all ef
the powers in working for peaceful
settlement will, it is believed, result
in avoiding an actual conflict
Servi2. however, has not yet re-
piled to the Austro-Hungarian suages-
tion that Servian occupation OF
Albanian territory or Of a port on the
Adriatic sea will not be tolerated. At
the same time, a Servian army con-
tinues it's march toward the Adriatic
coast and in one report from BeIerad.
is said actually to have reached Du-
razzo.
The Russian government, acting in
direct disregard of public feeling in
Russia, has notified the Servan min
lister at ST. Petersburg that Russia
will not 90 to war over the question
of Adratic port. The Russian for
eign minister, Sergius Sazonoff, at
the same time, informed the Servian
minister that Russia would give
friendly support to Servia in her me-
eotiations with Austria-Hungary.
It is understood that Count Won
Berchthold, the Austre-Hunaarian for
eign minister has proposed to give
extensive privileges to Servia in con-
nection with the projected Adriatic-
Danube railway. 1t is said DR.. Dan
eff, president of the Bulgarian cham.
ber Of deputies, proposed that Austria
should allow Servia to go to some
port on the Adriatic without obtain
ing the territory at the back of it or
the right to fortify the port, which
would be connected with Servian ter
ritory by railway.
Servia has yet to be heard from
in regard to these proposals. She be-
Iieves that Austria aims at her polt-
cal and economic subjection, which
would break up the alliance of the
Balkan nations. With an independent
Servia, Austria fears that her Ser
Wan subjects will want to join their
co-nationalists.
Meantime the Albanian chiefs at
meeting at the seaport Of AvIona
have proclaimed the autonomy of
their country.
A letter received in London from
a member of the American embassy
in ConstantinopIe depicts the terri
BILE condition of the Turkish wound
ed arriving at the capital. The staff
of the embassy, assisted by the local
branch of the American Red Cross
society, is taking care Of some two
thousand of those wounded Turkish
soldiers, but is greatly handicapped by
the lack of hospital necessities.
The letter adds that the Turkish
government has lost control of the
city and seems helpless.
From the accounts of correspond
ents on the Bulgarian side their
wounded are in just as bad condition
as the Turks. One correspondent in
describing the poor ambulance serv
ice of the BuIgarians, whose wound
ed are driven for miles in ioIting OK
carts, says this is not the worst part
Of their suffering. He continues:
"After several battles the wounded
we're left lying on the bare fields
where they had fallen for two or
three hot days and bitterly cold |
nights and the worst sights in the
hospitals are the rows Of poor fellows
With swollen and gansrcned limbs, for
whom there is no hope of recovery"
The correspondent adds that many
are dying from exposure and not
from wounds.
An "OId Turk" writing to the news
papers to depIore the defeat Of his
country, says it would not have hap
pened had Abdul Hamid been retain
ed on the throne. He continued: "Our
true sultan has now returned to the
city of the faithful and this fact has
caused greater sensation in the OF
toman empire than all the reverses
our troops have suffered"
He predicts that Abdul Hamd
within few weeks will be restored
to the throne in ConstantinopIe, and
owing to the dissensions of the pow
ers, part of the Turkish empire will
be saved to him.
The main Bulgarian attack on the
Turkish forts along the line of Tcha-
talja in front of Constantinople is now