The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
the BALKAN--TURKISH WAR

For several weeks the reading public has forgotten the Balkan
war in the excitement of the civil war in Mexico. But the war in
Turkey has been going on, and the allies II pressing the Turks as
hard as ever.
1t is a war fought behind an almost impenetrable screen Of
censorship. The war correspondents ire helpless They are un-
able to print the news o even get it.
But to catch up with what news there is: A dispatch from London
on the 18th instant announces that the Turkish government again
invites the European powers to intervene to stop the Balkan war.
If Turkey had treated with the victorious allies at Bagbtche she
might not only have saved her face and avoided the payment OF a
heavy war indemnity, but certainly saved Constantinople. At this
moment Constantinople may be added to the price Turkey must pay
for the assassination of her gallant Nazim Pasha and the lives sacri-
feed at the bidding of the revolutionary party of union and
progress.
Meanwhile, Scutari is being vigorously bombarded by the
Montenegrins, with great loss of life to besieged and besiegers'
Adrianople likewise is being ~bombarded, and the peninsula of CALI
poll has become the scene of operations having for object the taking
of the Dardaneles defenses from the land side.
Serious battles involving great loss of life by the Turks have
been fought, and the hopelessness of the latter has doubtless con-
vinced the union and progress leaders that they must submit to
whatever terms the allies may finally decide to impose.
Just at present the theatre of war is on the peninsula of CALI
poll, where Servians, Greeks and Bulgarians r trying to capture
the forts which dominate the Dardanenes.
The intrenchments which traverse the isthmus of Gallpoi are
interesting from a historical point of view. They were originally
erected by engineers of the middle ages in 1857. They were re-
paired just before the Crimean war in 1854 by French and English
engineers, and finally they were remodeled in 1878, when the Rus
slams menaced Constantinople.
1t is quite understood that Constantinople is now the main
objective of the allies. 1t is true Constantnople is protected
against the Bulgarian army by the TchataIa lines and against the
Greek fleet by the Dardaneles notifications.
When the ineficiency of the Bulgarian siege pieces against
Andrianople and also Tchatalja was apparently the question of the
present movement in the Gallipoi peninsula to prepare the way for
the Greek feet was decided. The banks of the Gulf of Saros are
quite rugged and steep and almost inaccessible, and in any event
the operation in the Gulf of Saros would necessarily be accompanied
by alike movement on the Asiatic side, for example, in Besika bay.
The conquest of Turkey is not without hardship for the con-
queror. Russia was awarded for her conquest of 1878, a war in
demnity, which still remains unpaid. Turkeys loans are unpaid,
and she vii. require more money, for she has not a dollar in her
treasury. Bulgaria requires a loan of S120 900 900. Greece $780,
100000. and Servia 500, 100000. Up to the present time it is not
clear where these millions are to come from.