The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-03
Give UP OR FIGHT
Balkan War VIII Be Renewed
at 2 O'clock.
Unless Turkey Decides in
Meantime to Surrender.
The CAPTURE OF ADRIANOPLE
VIII Be the First Attempt of
the Allies.
King Nicholas Already Has De-
parted for the Front.
The CAPTURE OF ADRIANOPLE

London, Feb. 3.-The Balkan war will
begin again at o'clock this evening
unless the last peace effort of the DOW
ers should succeed or Turkey decide
at the eleventh hour to surrender
1t has even been decided who shall
fire the first shot as Turkey has sta
ted that she will allow her adversaries
to take the aggressive. The Immediate
OBJECT of the armies of the allies is
the capture Of Adrianople, which has
hltnerto presented a firm front to it's
pesiegers Upon this fortress the COM
b1ned Bulgarian and Servian armies,
the latter well supplied with siege ar
tinery VIII concentrate their exertions.
for the present at any rate the Bull
garlan generals will simply try to hold
the Turkish troops at Tchatlta.
klng Nlcho.as of Montenegro has
already started for the Turkish fortress
or Scutari. The king will himself take
Ine direction of the renewed attack.
IN tne western Turkish province of
Eplrus which touches the Grecian bor-
DER the Greek troops under the COM
Lnano OF Crown Prince Constantine
nave great hopes of breaking down the
splendid defense which the Turkish
army has thus far offered
Inc uprising in Albania against fba
oerVlan invaders has assumed serious
proportions, it is said today. IT IS
Oo0 rifles under the command of Ans
trlan officers have fought a pattIe AZ
D1bra, where the Servians lost heavily
me AIbanians are said to be greatly
lrr1tateo in the provisional govern
ment' The possible renewal of the
balKan war may put q strain upon
the cooperation of the Euronean
powers though they have tbus far
worked in harmony
The departure of Prince Hohenlohe-
Waldenburg Schillingsfurest from
Vienna with an autograph letter from
the Emperor Francis Joseph 70 F,m-
peror Nicholas, of Russia, gives addi-
t1onal hope that they will do so until
the end. The Turkish government like
that of Bulgaria will not allow news
paper correspondents to accompany the
armies in the field. Mahmoud Shefket
Pasha, the grand vizier stated emphat-
ically today that he would not allow
any correspondents within twenty
miles of the lines
Turkey Still Hopes.
Constantinople, Feb 3.-The out
come of the representations made by
the British and German ministers at
the Bulgarian capital was awaited here
today with a good deal of anxiety. AL
though the armistice was scheduled to
end at seven O'Clock the Ottoman Off
cials had not yet lost hope that a re-
sumption of hostilities would be avoid
ed. The German communication to
Bulgaria was even more direct in its
terms than was that of Great Britain
in urging a peaceful settlement. Ger
many declared that she considered the
new Turkish proposals as adequate
while both Great Britain and Germany
intimated that intractibility on the
part of the Balkan nations was not
approved by the powers.
In the meanwhile Turkey has not
been neglecting precautions for any
outcome. The movements of troops
and war stores have been incessant
during the past week, while the hos
pitfalls at the front have all been
cleared and their patients removed to
the infirrnaries in this city.