Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-02-06
Successful in First Operations to
Capture the Gallipoli
Peninsula.
GREEK NAVY IS ASSISTING
Fall of Constantinople Must FOX
low Entering the Dardanelles
Turkey Now in Dire
Straits.

London, Feb. f.--'rhe Bulgaria.na are de.
voting their chief attention TO the bonn.
Dardment o. hdranoplc and In an a.
tempt 70 capture the Gallipou peninsula
ana 70 take the Turkish forts in the rear.
An ofhcial despatch issued at Con-
stantinople indicates that tho Bulgariana
have been successful IN their first opera.
tons In the latter quarter. and according
| to Sofia despatch the capture oc
| Gallpolt Is the chief object of the Bul-
gsrian ambitions for the time being, AMI
no serious attempt VIII be made to force
the Tchatalia lines.
The same despatch says that the BuIg.lr-
ian attack in Galipoll is supported by the
/ Greek navy In tho Gulf of Saros Fifty
thousand Bulgarians were landed along
this coast last November, and It may bs
presumed that during the armistice this
force was strengthened by artillery
Should the Bulgars capture the Turkish
/ forts there is nothing to prevent tho
Creek fleet from entering the Dardenelle4,
whore. in the opinion Of naval officers It
could easily defeat the inferior Turkish
fleet, In which case Constantinople would
be NJ the mercy of the allies
SAYS LOST ARMY IS FOUND
The Constantinople correspondent OF tho
Standard sends a strange story reporting
that tho remnant Of the Turkish army OF
Monastr. which has never boen precisely
accounted for, is still operating in that
district and has captured the important
town of Kortza, less than % miles from
,lorastir
Tho statement attributed to the Greel1
premier. ~ Venizelos, that peace viii
speedily be concluded tends TO confirm
tho report current in European capitals
in recent days to the same effect although
there has been no evidence in the shape
Of fresh diplomatic movements to sup
port IT, The Turkish government, how
ever is evidently III dire straits for
money, even attempting to dispose OF the
crown jewels ana making despairing at
tenpts 70 place treasury bonds In Tur-
KEY. Egypt and auour tho Moslems in
1 india. The Ottoman consul at Bombay
claims to have applications for bonds
amounting to $5.0oo0oo.
It Is announced that the ambassadors
conference at London has arrived at an
| agreement upon the formula settling the
plGn under which the allies will take
| over a portion OF the Ottoman public
debt, and settling also the allies liability
with regard TO tho Ottoman railways.
TURKS IN STATE. OF MISERY.
The Daily Telegraph publishes a long
| uncensored despatch from its correspond
| ent, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, at Constan-
| tinople In which he says that the Turkish
| people are in such state of misery and
| destituton a result OF the war that
| they are completely indifferent as to tho
| tate of Adrianoplo.
The cabinet is In a quandery," sans
! the correspondent. 1T knows that il will
| be compelled to cede Adrianople and $
| only seeking some means to save its face.
! 1t s said that the coup d'etat was only
| intended to occur after Kiamil Pasha
! surrendered Adrianoplc, but was precipi-
tated by somo mistake. Hence the dit
Guilty the ministry now is in.
There IA not a cent in the treasury and
there are no means OF getting money un-
I'll peace is concluded. and, meanwhile,
the country IS drifting to ruin and bank
| ruptcy.
"A great anti-war demonstration o.
CURED sunday IN front of the war Office
at which the Young Turks were publicly
denounced az murderers and thieves.
Mahmoud Schefket Pasha appeared On
the balcony and tried TO make speech,
but was greeted with opprobrious epithots
SOLDIERS COLD AND SICK
The misery IN the Turkish camps
is indiscribable. 1t has been bitterly
cold with heavy snow. the soldiers
are i'll fed and badly sheltered. small
pox, enteric fever. dysentery AMI
pneumonia have replaced Asistio
cholera
TT is understood that the forces 1t
| Tchatalja have been reduced TO 100
o0O. which is considered ample to de-
fend the lines Large reintorcemepts
have been sent 10 Gallipoll where
there are now 10000 men. There IL
talk of landing q force in the neigh
! borhood of Rolosto, TO outtlank the
| Bulgarians but such a scheme ~ I'm
practicable In the present state OF
the Turkish organization, the army
would starvo the moment it attempt
ed 20 leave the coast.
"Trom a military and econom!o
standpoint Turkeys position is hope
less. Nothing can prevent even
worse misfortunes except immediate
acceptance OF the inevitable"
MUST EE DRIVEN ACROSS SEA,
Sofia, Feb E.-Cieuerai SaNpn. COM
mander ~ tho Bulgarian forces, has adj
dressed an order 10 tho army declsr-
ing that tha Turkg object throughout
tho negotiations was merely to gain time.
but that the BulRaiians utilized that time
TO far greater advantage
1--WE are now entirely ready, in A oct.
tor tata OF preparedness than hefo-e the
declaration Of war" SAYS the general
land In order to break the enenly's re-
slstence finally W. . ..4l have to overthrow
him once more and scatter his hastily
musterd and unframed hordes- we must
hurl him TO the ground and there or
tho battlefield dictate terms of peace Th,
Turks must he driven beyond the seae