The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
The Balkan People Are Being
Kept in Ignorance
Regarding What Is Going On
at the Front.
FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS
achievements Continue to Go
Forward Daily.
Austria Shows Indications Of
Getting Into the Game.

Sofia, Nov. 5.-Reinforcements con-
tinue to proceed to the front from the
Bulgarian capital in considerable num-
bers. Some Servian troops passed
through here yesterday for Adrianople
and today eight battilions of vol
unteers, including Macedonians and
Russians, entrained for the front.
1t is reported that fighting still con-
tinues in the neighborhood of Serai and
| Tchorlu.
People are being kept in entire ignor-
ance of the happenings around Adria-
nople and at Tchorlu, where the Turk
ish and Bulgarian armies are fighting.
Nothing has been published here FOR
| the past three days. An important
| ministerial conference was held this
morning the results of which have not
been made public. The hospitals of
Sofia, PnilippoliS and other centers are
| crowded with wounded men,
| Thirty foreign war correspondents
/ have announced that they are leaving
! the Bulgarian headquarters and re-
| turning to their respective countries.
Austria Butts In
/ Vienna, Nov. 5.-The first division of
| the Austria-Hungarian fleet consisting
of the three battleships, one cruiser and
| two torpedo boat destroyers left the
! naval SIdIlOn at 6dlO Lue east last
| night. The exact destination is not
known but the commander ofthe di-
| cision has been ordered to report TO
the Austro-Hungarian ambassador at
| Constantinople from whom will be as
certained where the vessels can best be
employed.
The attitude of the Austro-H Hungar-
| ian government in regard to the pro-
| posaI of Premier Poincare for the ad-
| justment of the Balkan situation Is
o1a rs1z cfo fa6 tod in, . I,n Alta
| Presse, which says:
THE present military situation in the
| Balkans cannot be decisive for the So
| luton of the whole eastern question.
Premier Poircare gives to the Balkan
states more than they themselves have
! demanded.
"The proposal which is a most radi-
| cal expression Of Pan-Slavist tenden-
| cies, is so one-sided that IT can hard
| ly find the approval of all the powers
| and particularly of Austria Hungary,
| the less so as nothing is said regard
| ing the future of Albania. This is a
| question which is of the greatest i'm
| portance both to Austria-Hungary and
| Italy. The anxiety of Austria-Hun-
| gary that Servia shall not occupy Al
bania and thus secure that outlet on
| the Adriatic sea which the SerVians
are so desirous of, probably will pro-
| vide a great bone of contention. Servia
has been warned already from Vienna
/ lIldL uOF dIlill6S nave gone Idr enough
to the west. This warning is repeated
today by the semi-official Fremden-
| blat."
| After praising the Servian soldiers
| for their humanity the newspaper says:
THE Servians having approached the
| frontier of a territory occupied with
| out exception by Albanians, it is hoped
| and expected now that Servia will
avoid the raising of those difficulties
| which the historic character of the
A
most elementary justice demands that
the principle of the Balkans for the
Balkan people shall also be to the ad-
vantage of the Albanians."
Prince Ghirka, the president of the
Albanian national commission, it Is
bania.
Losses Are Heavy.
Vienna, Nov. 5.-According to a
military authority here the total num-
Der of the killed and wounded on both
sides in the Balkan war up to today is
uted as follows:
At Kirk-Kilisseh and Adrianople-
Turks, $4,000; Bulgarians. 1000.
At Lule- Burgas and during the
garians, $4,000.
At Kumanova-Turks. 1000; Ser
vians, 5000.
scutari and vicinity-Turks, 1000;
MO0Ien6STlnS, O,UVU.
In small gagements-Turks, 5000;
Servians, 5000.
In engagements with the Greeks
Turks. 1000; Greeks, 1000.
Qs-%SreI Is Brewing.
London, Nov. 5.-The great powers
of Europe are aligning themselves on
either side of very sharp line re-
garding the future of the Balkan
states. Public opinion in England.
France and Russia argues that the al
lies should have the territory which
they have conquered and Russia has
warned Turkey that conditions could
only become worse should further dis
asters occur at Tchatalja.
On the other side are Austria-Hun-
gary, Germany and Italy. Austria-Hun-
gary which after all is the most in
terested of the great powers, being the
nearest neighbor to the Balkan states,
and see the Balkan league establish
itself across her path to the Aegean
sea in which direction her trade is ex-
panding while at the same time the
Servians spread to the Adriatic sea-
The Austrian government points out
that the Albanians are as much a ma
ton as any of the allies and that AL
bania should be reserved for the Al
banians.
The first sign of dissension among
the Balkan allies themselves comes in
a dispatch from Belgrade in which It
is said the Servians are beginning to
declare that the autonomous Albania
which was agreed upon before the war
started. has now faded away. In the
dispatch the Musselnan Albanians
who fought against the Servian troops
are blamed for the change in the Ser
Wan attitude.