New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-08
LONDON AT SEA OVER
RUMORS FROM BALKANS
ServianS and Greeks Report Big
Losses, but Stories Of Battles
Believed Exaggerated.
TURKEY MAY TAKE HAND
Formally Demands That Terri
tory Within Enosmidia Line Be
Evacuated-Talk of Efforts
to Retake Adrianople.
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lBy Gable to The Tribune
London, July SIT is stated in Bel
grade that the total Servian casualties
in week Of lighting have amounted
to upward Of $1,000 killed and wounded.
The Greeks admit they have lost
10000 officers and men. From the Bull
garian side there is no corresponding
estimate. but presumably they were In
proportion. On the other hand. infor-
nation which aas reached London as
serts that the. whole story of battle,
stormings, desperate resistance and 90
forth is much exaggerated, and that
nothing like q real battle has yet oc-
Cured. Petwcen these two highly di-
vergen; statements it is no more pos
sible To Judge ut the moment than II
is feasible to discriminate between the
conflicting claim Of victory put forward
by the parties i this new war.
The Bulgarians maintain that they
have had the best OF the struggle So
far 1t Is positively declared in messages
received in official quarters from Sofia
that the Timok division of the Servian
army has been routed with enormous
loss in a conflict around Oviche Pole.
but here again the Servians deny they
have sustained any such disaster.
Ferdinand Leaves for Frontier.
The Timcss" correspondent i'm tho
Balkans. who gives the most reliable
news of the situation, wires from Sofia
that King Ferdinand has left for the
frontier but that army headquarters
remain at Sofia.
The Servian border. according to this
correspondent. has been crossed at four
points-at Saitchar and ST Nicholas
and two intervening points-while the
Bulgarians are moving on Prot ana
Vrania. with the manifest object of
cutting the railway
The Greeks continue successful. The
capture of Dorian and Series Is adj
mittcd in Sofia The Bulgarians rec
ognizc that it was an error To leave
their forces in the south 50 weak. This
error IL being rcmcdicd.
mo bulletins" continues the CORE
spondent. were issued to-day. but Sc
we're nghting continues west OF Not
chana, where the fourth Bulgarian
army, under General Kovatchen. the
War Minister. is being reinforced by
the nth army. under General Toshen.
which is advancing from kustendll.
The fate Of the campaign will probably
be decided by the result Of the opera
lions i'm this quarter.
Meanwhile the third army. under
General Racho Petron. is advancing IN
two columns on Nrania and Prot on
the latter place by way of Tsaribrod'
The Scrvians have destroyed the rail-
way between these places.
In the north General Kutincheh IS
reported 10 be advancing up the Timoh
Valley. General Tvanoff is now being
reinforced. the weakening OF his army
having been the initial error Of the
campaign. Had General SavOff's plans
been adopted at the outset. these re-
verses By the Greeks might have been
avoided. but complete confidence exists
in the final result.
within the last few days Istip mas
been twice taken by the Servians ana
twice retaken by the BulgarAns, ana
hard fghting is still reported around
Kotchana. Small Scrvian detachments
have made raids on Bulgarian terri
tory TO the north OF kustendil and car
ricd away number Of women ana
children. 4 Servian column advancing
on Belogradchik from the Timok Val
ley has been routed with the loss Of
five guns
Exactly similar discrepancies are evi-
dent between versions given out re
garding the lighting OF the Greeks and
Bulgars. For example. while telegram
from Athens portray the army of King
Constantine pursuing an unchecked ca
rcer of undluted victory, 1t is affirmed
from soma tHdl tn' sdlii' 'lhy VI o"'''"
men has been defeated and dispersed.
Under these conditions II Is useless
10 attempt any estimate Of the actual
situation, so far az 1t concerns the
eventual outcome of this amazing clash
of riyalries and hatreds.
The attitude OF Turkey is becoming
more clearly defined. IL is tolerably
evident that she means 10 utilize the
situation TO her own advantage. The
Porte has formally demanded that the
territory within the Enosmidia line
shall be evacuated by the Bulgarians
at once. and there are even rumors thdt
an effort will he made TO recover Adri-
a,ople Not too much reliance need be
nlaced on this latter report, for 1t Is
difficulf 10 see how the Ottoman army
can advance over the one hundred
miles that separates Chatald.a from
the lost fortress. but II seems certain
that military preparations are being
made and all officers have been ordered
70 rejoln their forces at Chataldjs.
Salonica, July Slate advices last
night say that the Greeks have re-
pulsed the Bulgarian attack on Guev-
gheli.
London. July THE most important
,oo,s from the seat OF war day is