Evening star., 1912-11-03
BRITISH SAILORS
ORDERED TO SHIPS
Officers and Men Recalled and
Scenes of Activity Noted
at Navy Yards.
SAY SEALED ORDERS =
HAVE BEEN RECEIVED
Preparations May Have to Do With
the Balkan War.
SERVIANS CONTINUE ADVANCE
Proceeding Against Saloniki--Turks
Said to Have Massacred Women
and Children During Retreat
From Eski-Baba.
Preparations May Have to Do With
the Balkan War.
SERvIANs CONTINUE ADVANCE

PORTSMOUTH, England, No
vember 2.-Unusual activity in
the Portsmouth dockyard is re-
ported in special edition OF the
Evening News, which says prep
arations are being made to get
the sixth destroyer flotilla ready
for sea.
The official explanation" says
the News, is that this is being
done merely to be in readiness for
the quarterly mobilization Mon
day, but we understand that the
preparations are of a much more
warlike nature. The active serv-
ice ratings have been recalled by
notice and special messenger since
2 o'clock in the afternoon, and
the men have been directed tn
proceed aboard ship by this even
ing"
Sail Under Sealed Orders.
The News adds that it is rumored that
the fiotilla will sail tonight under sealed
orders. Notices have been posted order
ing all submarine men to return to their
boats at once. The paper also states
that men on leave have been recalled by
wire to other naval ports.
PLYMOUTH. November All officers
ana men of the war craft here were or
dered today to be aboard their ships at
Z O'clock Sunday morning. Later an ad-
miralty dispatch ordered those of the
NTH destroyer fioti!la aboard their ships
at IL o'clock Saturday evening at the
latest.
CHATHAM November 2.-Great excite
ment was caused here today by the re-
ceipt of urgent admiralty kilograms,
calling officers and men to their ships.
Messengers on bicycles were dispatched
in all directions. The authorities are
reticent. but it is believed the orders re-
late to- the battleships Russell and Dun
can. now in the Midway.
Calm for Few Hours.
LONDON. November 2.-After the four
day decisive battle of the war there is
calm for few hours, and no news comes
from the field of the recent fighting.
Constantinople officials still refuse TO
permit messages dealing with the Turk
ish defeat to be sent out of the capi-
tai. How far the Ottoman army will be
able to pull itself together and whether
1t will make a stand in the forts outside
Cf Constantinople are questions un-
answered
The Servian advance toward Saloniki
continues. The Greeks claim to be push
in1 faq6 1v f,rv a llrt rTrrrl oh mas
Sages insist that the Greek army has
met with a repulse: that the crown
prince ran away and that the Greei.
position is precariouS.
Adr.anople and Saloniki are surround
ed by enemies. The Turkish army III
Macedonia is cut off from all sides. Ser
vians hold all of Old Servta- and are ad-
ministering the government from the
sacres by the retreating Turks, with bar
barous details, are piing up.
Await Final Battle.
Diplomacy has done nothing in the di-
rection OF stopping or limiting the war.
The powers now await the expected final
battle, which will force the Turk to his
knees. The allies proclaim their deter
mination to hold all they conquer.
All the sailors ot the British destroyer
and submarine squadronS on leave have
action Of the British admiralty has
caused stir. ,ut IT may have no relation
TO the war.
To Court-Martial Prince.
CONSTANTINOPLE, November 2-It
Is reported that Prince Aziz, who COM
manded the Turkish cavalry at Kirk
kiisseh. and nineteen other Turkish
officers will be brought to Consrantinople
for trial by court-martial. More than
5000 wounded arrived here tonight from
the Thracean plains.
An official dispatch from Saioniki this
evening says the Turkish forces which
started from Salonid have formed juno
ton with the troops at varidari on the
Vardar river. A column from Yenidiah
has succeeded in dislodging the Greeks.
who occupied a position at Vertekop,
near Vodena. in Macedonia. Numerous
prisoners and ten guns were captured.
Turkish forces. according to the ad-
vices, have descended from Monastir and
turned the Greeks under the crown
p. ince.
days ago. reports that the Montenegrins
in one of their assaults against the town
.ost 2.0OO men XII led wounded.
1t is reported from Kavala. on the
Aegean sea. that a Greek squadron has
been sighted off Enos. at the mouth OF
the Martha river in the Gulf of Enos.
Greeks Defeat Turks.
ATHENS, November 2.-The Greeks
have defeated the Turks in another bat
tie on the road to Monastir. Advancing
along the direct road from kosani. in
stead Of by the railway from Verri. the
5th Greek Division arrived at o'clock
last evening before the Turkish position
on Katroanitza, near the village of Mall
tan.
During the night a force of Turks and
Albanians attacked the Greek camp but
was repulsed with a loss of TO killed
and injured. At daylight the Greeks be-
gan an attack on the fortified position OF
the Turks. and after a tight lasting two
hours drove them out of their trenches.
1t Is reported that the German ein-
peror has sent a letter to his sister,
Princess Sophie, the wife of Crown
Prince Constantine. which has been com~