Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-09
Vienna Hears Circular Has
Been Sent to European
Powers on Subject.
COMMANDERS OF ARMIES
NEGOTIATEFORA ARMISTICE
Turkey Makes Offer to Form an Al
lance With Servia
and Greece.

VIENNA, Austria, July 9.-The Bull
garian government is reported to have
sent circular to the European powers
expressing its readiness to negotiate
for peace. &.
The Bulgarian and Servian command
ers-in-chief are stated here to be al
ready negotiating an armistice. as the
losses of both armies in killed and
wounded are so immense, and it is
feared that the epidemic of cholera
which has broken out among the
troops may get beyond control.
Turkey Would Form Alliance.
LONDON. July s.-The Daily Express
publishes the rumor that Turkey has
made an offer to Servia and Greece to
establish an alliance against Bulgaria.
The Belgrade correspondent of the
Daily News was STOPPED on his way to
the front and ordered to leave Servia.
he declares that the Balkan peoples
nave become completely barbarous.
- Their hatred for the Turk" he SAYS.
is nothing as compared with their
hatred for each other. The present
territorial greed is hideous: ali senti-
ments Of fair play and chivalry have
given place to brutality
0AAS oAS 0AAOW aGIOlSIQs
Reports of the evacuation of Kotchana
and Istfp by Gen. Kovatcheff's army are
confirmed In Sofia dispatch to the
Times. which estimates the losses on
both sides as scarcely less than 5000
killed or wounded. The Bulgarians
faced most desperate fighting and per-
formed great feats of heroism before
they were routed. suffering the severer
losses.
According to high authority the total
casualties on all sides since the war
resumed have been fully $4,000.
Greek Losses Enormous.
A dispatch to the Times from Doiran,
dated July Z, says:
King Constantine and his staff have
removed from headquarters here and are
encamped on the lake side. The Greek
losses to date are enormous. They In
clude 1900 officers, but the majority Of
the wounded are not in q serious condi-
ton and will soon be able to reJoin the
ranks.
THE Greeks continue their rapid ad-
vance along the whole line. The Bulga-
rians are unable to offer effective resist
ance and their position is critical"
Calls Slavs Ungrateful.
AASoAsGDA1s July O-hIuS refer mas
issued proclamation to his people an
nouncing war. in which he SAYS:
'The Bulgarians. forgetful OF the Serv-
ians' brotherly help and the blood Of the
heroes who fell on the Thracian battle
fields. have given the Slavonic nations
and the civilized world an abominable ex-
ample Of ingratitude and greediness.
This unbrotherly action has caused me
the deepest main and hIIr cin
Siavonic feelings, and the responsibility
for that crime against Slavdom and
humanity must fall upon those who COM
mitted it,"
An official despatch asserts that the
Servians have repulsed the Bulgarians
at Zetchar, on the frontier, with heavy
losses. and also at Vlasina.
According to authoritative private in
formation the Bulgarian forces, nine bat
talions strong, which invaded Servia at
knarsevatZ, were entirely annihiIated
They met the Servian forces and engaged
in a desperate battle at the entrance of
Zajetsar Pass.
Seven Hundred Burned.
SALONIKI, July 3-Father Michel. su-
perior Of the French Catholic mission at
kilkish. confirmss reports of massacres
committed in that district by Bulgarian
irregulars. In one instance they burned
to death 700 men belonging to Kurkut by
imprsoning them in a mosque, under
which they exploded bombs, setting the
building on fire. They had previously as
sembled the victims wives and daughters
to witness the spectacle.
Even more terrible scenes were enacted
at kilkish. Blanitza and Raynove, wom-
en- also being burned to DEATH Father
Michel asserts that among the irregulars
responsible for these atrocities were busi-
ness and professional men and students
from Sofia