The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-03
ARMY IS ORDERED
TO AWAIT ATTACK
Turks Will Not Fire Shot Until
After Allies Have Begun
Action.
DISCLAIM RESPONSIBILITY
RESPONSIBILITY
Assertion That Balkan Forces
Can Storm Adrianople in
Three Days Is Ridiculed.

London. February 2-The Porte has
ordered the Turkish plenipotentiaries
not to leave London until hostilities
are resumed, and has instructed the
army to await the attack before firing
a shot
Thus. the Ottomans, who, with the
exception of the Montenegrins. are the
only delegates left in London, re-
marked to-day that nobody could &C
cuse them of not having done all That
was humanity possible TO come 10
terms Animated by a humanitarian
spirit, they added, Turkey wished 10
avoid useless carnage and wished also
IN show Difference to the advice of the
powers. although Europe had been I'M
fair toward Turkey.
.Americans of Europe"
Dr. Danen. head OF the bulgarian
delegation. before leaving the capital
recalled what he had said in his first
statements on arriving in London. that
the Balkan peoples. who had adapted
the Monroe Doctrine to their peninsula
aspired to become the Americans Oh
Europe They had inaugurated pol
lev of sincerity and Straightforward
ness as was proved by their frank
conduct in the peace conference, where
they demanded from the first exactly
what they intended to take, against
double dealing on the part OF the
Turks.
The Balkan representatives. he said,
would not have waited to their own
disadvantage so long before resuming
hostiIities but for the genuine regard
in which the Balkan Kingdoms held
the powers. He again rejected the
idea that even a small fraction OF
Adrianople should be retained by Tur-
KEY DR. Daneff concluded by saying:
turkey should have understood that
she must abandon Europe entirely, her
nermanence there being opposed not
ONLY by the allies. but by the powers
themselves, as shown by their coiiec-
tive note. Turkey has refused TO quit
peacefully. but will be forced TO do so
nv another war. after which. tuily
realizing the strength of the Balkan
states. she will become their irieno-
RidfcuIes Ckrest.
osnan Nazimi PaSha- u the TURKISH
allegation. ridiculed the assertion that
the allies would be able 10 s'o'n
Adrianople in a few days. He SAID
thev were evidently playing on t"c
isrnoranoe OF the public. He pointed
ont that the fOrtifications IN the hilis
.,r-oundfnr the town form a circle
tweutv-dec niles IN diameter. WITHIN
which are other circles equally strong
In addition. the town Is protected D.
sucb natural defcnses as the Rivers
Araa. Tuncia and Martha. and he de-
clared tina; the garrison In the fortress
could resist an enemy even tenfcld su-
pcrior In numbers. which the allied
forces are not
T,c plan to take Adrianopie BY
starvation has evidently been aban-
doped. the Turkish commander having
proved hts ability 10 furnish supplies
indefniteiv for the hghting men ana
,br civilians within the town
Orders of thr Porte.
Constantinopie February An on
-3sl note was issued to-day anDounc-
ms that the Porte had ordered the
noace delegates not TO leave London
nnttl after hostfIitics were resumed.
snd had instructed the troops not 70
Gre until after the Buiearians began
their attack. The note adds.
The Porte considered Il necessary
To issue these instructions IN order to
convince public opinion that respou-
ability for the resumption Of the var
will rest exclusively with the Balkan
alias"