Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-12
Can Hold AdrianopIe Only
Week, Says Commander.
FOOD SUPPLY is SHORT
Little Ammunition Left and City's
Defenders Are Ill.
MINISTRY STILL DIV
Will Have Trouble in Solving Prob
lem at Holy City-Allies Agree
to Mediation.

CONSTANTINOPLE, March IA
despairing cry OF "I can hold out onl,
week longer" was sent in cipher b,
wireless today from Shukri Pasha, the
Turkish commander of Adrianople, tt
his superior officers here, according te
unofficial reports this morning
Shukri, who has held out for many
months against the hundreds of siege
guns Of the Bulgarians and Servians
is said to have informed the porte in
his message that Adrianople is practi.
cally at the end of it's supplies Of food
and ammunition. while there is much
sickness. especially scurvy and intes-
final disorders, which are ravagine
the ranks of the defenders
The commander who has offered such
"a long and gallant defense urges either
that peace negotiations be hastened OF
that an immediate attempt to relieve
the city be undertaken from the
Tchatalja lines.
Ministry Is Divided.
The Turkish ministry is divided in opin-
ion, and will have difficulty in reaching
any solution of the problem raised by
the commander of the besieged fortress.
The ferment aroused by the murder of
the late Nazim Pasha continues to
! threaten internal trouble in Turkey. At
service held here today in memory of
Nazim the officiating Mussulman
assassins and on those who have de-
ceived the Sultan Of Turkey, the head of
the Mussulman faith
Agree to Mediation.
BELGRADE. servia, March 12.-The
allied Balkan nations have agreed to ac-
cept the mediation Of the powers, but
only on conditions the acceptance of
which is unlikely.
According to an unofficial annodnce-
ment today the consent Of the allies is
contingent on the agreement Of Turkey to
surrender the fortresses OF Adrianople
and Scutarf and the islands in the Aegean
sea, and also to pay war indemnity.
LONDON. March IA saloniki dis
patch to the Times gives further details
OF the fighting at Nighrita between the
Bulgarians and Greeks over the posses
sion OF that town. The fighting which
began Wednesday, March 8. continued
Thursday and Friday. But Friday night
the. .Rulgarians retreated across the
karas0 river. They were followed by
four companies Of Greeks, who burned
the bridges. The Bulgarians then hoisted
the white flag. 49,
killed and forty wounded. One hundred
and twenty Bulgarians were taken pris-
oner.
Servian Forces Landed.
According to dispatches from Vienna
and Belgrade, Greek transports are land
ing more large Servian forces at San
Giovanni di Media. These will assist in
the capture of Scutari and a general at
tack on the. town win commence next
week
1t is understood Russia will disband
10000 reservists under agreement with
Austria, but that on Austrias side 1t can
hardly be described as rehabilitation.
since much smaller number will be dis
persed and only from the Russian from
tier.
A Constantinople dispatch reports that
fighting has been resumed both at Tcha-
talja and Bulair. No particulars are
given, except that the Bulgarian advance
posts have attacked on both wings the
Turkish positions on the Gulf Of Saros.