The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-07-07
Hellenic Troops Detained by
Superior Strategy and
Forces of Allies Separated
Ferdinand Thrashes the
Smaller Foe-Desperate
Fighting Continues With
100000 Men Engaged
BELGRADE PREPARES
NEWS OF DISASTER
Losses Already Are Greater
Than in Entire Campaign
Against Turkey-Week's S
Toll in Killed and Wound
ed Placed at 4O,oOO-Ref-
ugees Crowd the Villages

LONDON. July e-After 10 days of
lighting more severe and deadly in
character than anything in the last
Balkan war, a little light begins TO
break upon the hitherto obscure oper-
stlonS
The servians have lost more men
than in, the whole previous campaign,
and semioricial statements issued by
Belgrade have the appearance Of an
intention to prepare the public for news
OF disaster.
Desperate fighting. with varying for
tunes, is proceeding along the yardar
and Bregalinitsa rivers. which seems to
be in favor of the Bulgarians. Import
ant news has been received of the Bull
gsrlan invasion of servia through Bel
ogradchyk. about 45 miles northeast
OF Nish. servia's most important forti-
ned town.
No indication is given Of the
strength Of the Bulgarian column at
This point, but the Bulgarians declare
they have defeated the servians and
captured five guns. war munitions and
by the occupation of the passes to have
opened the road to Nish.
STRATEGY HOLDS GREEKS
There is heavy lighting also between
the seryians and Bulgarians south of
Istip, near Ketchana About 5000
men are engaged and the losses on
both sides appear to be terrible.
Bulgaria's strategy appears to hold
the Creeks in check probably with
comparatively small forces, while she
deals with Servia. This assumption. if
correct. would explain the victorious
advance of the Greek army
Unconhrmed reports credit the Bull
sarians with victories near Koprili.
giving them the key to Uskup. and
with an outhanking movement from
the south Of Tahynos lake. which
would cut off the Greek retreat
SaIoniki dispatches continue to re-
port Greek victories. The Greeks are
said to have captured IS guns in
Dorian. Evidence of desperate fight
ing is found in the arrival of 5000
wounded in saloniki. taxing the towns
accommodations and resources to the
uttermost.
CASUALTIES OF WEEK 10000
A conservative estimate of the killed
or wounded in last weeks lighting
fixes the number a. from 500 to 40,-
ooo. Thousands of destitute refugees
from the scene OF hghtfng are pouring
into saloniki
The Greeks have made wholesale
charges against the Bulgarians OF
burning and pilaging all the villages
they abandon and OF committing mur-
ders mutilations and other horrors.
More than 1000 refugees are concen-
trated in Nigrita and adjacent villages.
BIoodieSt Battles of War
BELGRADE. July e. The Servian
government has addressed a note to
Bulgaria. formally breaking off dipIo-
matte relations and announcing the
recall OF the minister in Sofia.
servian troops have victoriously en-
tered Kotchana. A semioficial state
ment however, describing the military
position after five days lighting ad
mits the Servian arms have not been
so uniformly successful as previously
reported
Describing the Ave days operations
between vardar and Krivolak, it says
that after holding a greatly superior
force in check, the Servians were
obliged to retire. Thus Krivelak fell
into the hands of the Bulgarians 1t
contends that this Bulgarian success
was Insignificant compared with the
Servian successes against the Bulga-
rian right wing.
Another semiof1cial communication
says last weeks battles we're the
longest, the bloodiest and the hardest
fought of all the battles in the Balkan
war. The Servians lost $4,000 killed
and wounded; the Bulgarians 10000.
The Bulgarian losses were increased
by the bad organization OF their Red
Cross service and lack of communica-
ton and transports. Their wounded
were left on the battlefield. Their dead
were unburied.
It was reported that the Greeks in
Doran are advancing toward Krivolak,
where a desperate battle has been rag
ing for three days,