Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-12
RUSSIA HAS POWER
TOEND HOST|L|T|ES
Authority Given by All BelIig-
erents to Close the
Balkan War.
BULGARIAN POPULACE
IGNORANT OF SITUATION
More Butchery Reported From Greek
Towns-Pillage Also
Continues.


the Balkan war have given Russia full
power to find way to bring hostilities
| to end.
VIENNA. Austria, July IA message
from Sofia says that the populace of the
Bulgarian capital is in ignorance of the
actual military and political situation in
the Balkans The government has sus-
pended the newspapers so as to prevent
unfavorable news from spreading while
the war Office continues to issue reports
of the success of the Bulgarian armies
in the field.
Until last evening the inhabitants of
Sofia knew nothing of the action taken
by Roumania, whose troops have cross
ed the Bulgarian frontier and occupied
considerable territory.
SALONIKI, July 12.-The Greek troops
have fully occupied the town of Sere. re-
Gently in the hands of the Bulgarians,
and martial law has been proclaimed
there.
The number of Greek residents massa-
cred by the Bulsarians before they left
Sores was 200. including most of the
prominent citizens.
Two Hundred Butchered.
I1INDOA>p July IL ne SdlOnlk1 cor
respondent of the Times gives a report
transmitted by the kings order by Prince
Nicholas that the Servian commander
when he entered Demirhissar was in
formed that the Bulgarians prior to quit
ting the town arrested a bishop, two
priests and more than 100 Greek notables
and herded them in the yard of the Bull
garian school, where they were merci-
lessly butchered by order of a Bulgarian
officer. The Servian commander had the
bodies disinterred. the report says, and
thus the crime was certified
The Daily Nails correspondent with the
Servian army reports. by way of kuma-
novo. that the Bulgarians on arriving at
kujaznevats in northeast Servia pillaged
all the shops and some private houses.
After the Servians had driven them out
a scene of devastation was disclosed
which so incensed the Servians that they
attacked the Bulgarians again. inflcting
terrible losses. Some reports give as high
as 5000 Bulgarians killed.
1t is asserted that the Bularians en-
ployed a questionable ruse to get their
artillery across the Zletovo river in their
retreat July 1. They sent delegates with
a priest to tn Servian positions, begging
an armistice. The request was granted
In the meantime the guns We're taken
across. and the Bulgarians reopened with
a heavy fire. without warning, causing
heavy losses to the Servians.
Army in Last Stand.
ATHENS. July 12.-Gen. Ivanoff's army,
together with three divisions of the Istip
force, aggregating H. battalions. made
its last stand in a strongly intrenched
position near Demirhissar, on the left
bank of, the river Struma, and on the
adjacent heights of Intrina, which were
we'll defended with siege artillery. The
heavy guns effectively delayed the ad-
vance of the Greek infantry. and as the
Greek artillery was autranged, the bat
tie was indecisive for a considerable
time.
Under cover of darkness however. the
attack was renewed. and in a brilliant
charge the Greeks dislodged the Bulgars
from the heights and drove them across
the Struma. In their retreat the Bull
garians destroyed the railway for some
distance, again checking the Greek ad-
vance.
The Greeks then directed their march
along the right bank of the river, sup
ported by mountain batteries, and COM
PEELED the Bulgarians hurriedly to aban-
don their positions, leaving behind four
ton.
While this battle was in progress the
Greeks attacked and dispersed the Bull
garan forces from Isip, advancing to-
ward Petrich. by way of Strumtza, cap
turing twenty guns.
BY these two victories the Greeks are
considered to have vanquished finally
Gen. Ivanhon's forces, whose route has
been complete. The Greeks occupied
Demirhissar Thursday, when the Bulgars
evacuated the town.