New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-05
RUMAN|A Mobiles
AND CALLS UP RESERVES
France, Advocating Non-ln-
tervention, Informally Ap-
breaches Other Powers.

Bucharest. July 4.-"The official Ga
zette" publishes royal decree ordering
the mobilization of the whole Rurna-
Man army and reserves.
London. July 5.-Evidence that serious
hghting is occurring in Macedonia is
found i'm the arrival of large numbers OF
wounded and prisoners at the various
Balkan capitals. but owing to the silence
at Sofia and the conflicting and probably
biassed stories from Servian and Greek
sources il is next to impossible to form
any accurate idea of the progress OF the
combatants.
There still has been no formal declara-
ton Of war, and although 1t Is reported
that the Bulgarian Minister TO Greece
has been recalled he has not yet de-
parted from Athens.
Premier Venzelos announced in the
Greek Parliament yesterday that the
Greek forces had won a victory at Kill
kish and captured sixty guns. This APP
pears to have been secured by the amaz-
ing swiftness OF the Greek advance from
Salonica. which, according to various
correspondents took the Bulgarians com
pletely by surprise.
The Servians claim a victorious ad-
vance to Kotchana. but the Servian IN
vasion of Bulgaria has been repulsed. and
Bulgaria. Il is reported. is executing
turning movement which will nullify the
servian advance.
Suspension of judgment regarding the
ic aH Wis
absence Of independent accounts.
The French government has Informally
approached the other powers with the
object Of obtaining a declaration OF non
intervention. The greatest anxiety pre-
walls in financial circles at st. Petersburg
where the report was current yesterday
that the Emperor had threatened 10
break off diplomatic relations with the
Balkan states unless hostilities ceased.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent OF the
Associated Press. in a dispatch last night
SAYS that this report is without founda-
ton, but adds that Russian opinion favors
strong measures to end what is regarded
as a disgraceful state of affairs. The
Russian newspapers suggest recourse TO
The Hague Tribunal $500.
4 Vienna dispatch TO THE Daily Mail
says it is officially announced that Bull
garia and Rumania have accepted Aus
trian mediation
Belgrade. July 4-The Servians. after
sanguinary fighting. have seized the
strong Bulgarian position at Raytchana,
which dominates the whole plain Of Kot-
chana, according to a despatch from U.s.
kub. The position was defended by
thirty-two Bulgarian battalions. with
eighty guns and fortified entertainments
The Servians are now masters OF Kot-
chana and the principal means of com
munication The Bulgarians are re-
treating precipitately.
Sofia, July At is officially announced
that three Servian battalions which in
vaded the Bulgarian Kustpendil district
have been defeated and driven back north
Of Egri Palanka. Two hundred Servian
officers and men were taken prisoners
and several guns were captured.
Vienna. July 4.-Lieutenant Hermini-
glide Wagner. the war correspondent OF
the "Rechspost," who attained promi-
nence during the hostilities between Tur-
KEY and the Balkan allies. telegraphs
from the front that the Servian army
suffered terribly at Ovchepolyo and that
the Servian victory over the Bulgarians
at ,Istip was only a momentary success
Of merely local Importance.
The outfanking operations OF the Bull
earlan troops toward Kratovo and Egri
Palanka have, he says. been successfully
ACCOMPLISHED. so that the Bulgarians are
AZ present advancing on Kumanova ana
the Seryian frontier. on the right bank
Of the river Vardar. he adds, the Ranking
onerations of the Bulgarians have like
wise progressed favorably, so that Servian
positlons at Veles (or' KoprilD. twenty
three miles southeast OF Uskub, have be-
come untenable and a servian retreat is
imminent.
The Bulgarian offensive movement
against Salonica, ne says, Is also beng
continued successfully and portions OF the
Greek army have begun to retreat
fight between the Bulgarians ana
servians for the possession Of the Wela-
nina Heights dominating the road to
Sofia has been in progress for two days
according 10 the 'Neue Freie Presse.