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Show ALLIES NOW j FIGHT OVER Bulgarians, Servians and j . ; Greeks Engaged in the Bloodiest Conflict in j '. the History of Wars in ' the Balkans, According ; J to Dispatches. x j BATTLE STILL ON; j - THOUSANDS SLAIN j King of Servia Presiding j :'-at :'-at a Council Which Is Expected to Formally ,j 4. Declare War; Powers .v. Unable to Prevent Set- ( ' i j tlement by the Sword. ; i 4 o y; . LONTJON, July 2. A telegram ;! from Belgrade, Servia, to the Ex- i change Telegraph company, re- .. ports that tho Servian, troops ars ''t' pursuing the fleeing Bulgarians t j ' along the whole line In Macedonia. ' . . ! ! LONDON", July 2. Any remaining -j t hope of averting a Balkan war is rap- j idly disappearing. Bulgaria has sent j . warning notes to Servia and Greece, 1 . ' demanding a cessation of all aggrossivo !. movements within twenty-four hours. : I V Thesenotcs are regarded a3 tanta- ' f-f' j mount to an ultimatum. j A Belgrade dispatch via PariB to- I night announces that the King of Ser- j". ; via is presiding at a council which is ! expected to decide- to declare war on ',- Bulgaria. j. . Greece, in notes to Bulgaria and the '"ij powers, justifying hor action, accuses . ', t Bulgaria of treacherously attacking the f ' Greeks and Servians in order to seize 'jjl important territories and so place her- self in an advantageous position in the ; coming negotiations for a settlement '. t of the Balkan differences. In the meantime fighting continues, '. according to Servian advices, on a ' ' heavy scale, and the king of Greece, ' ' , with his staff, has left Salonika for the ' , front to direct tho operations person- j j' ally. . Tho representatives of tho powers at '.j" ' nil tho Balkan capitals are pressing j l tho respective governments not to al- , j low unfortunate occurrences to drag i,'-' them into war. I ' f Use the Cold Steel. ; BELGRADE, July 2. Since early ; , ' morning there has been a bloody fight along the entire front, which includes Retklbukwe, Zletovo, Kotchana and Istlp. ".!"'. Tho Bulgarians, opened tlio battle and many hand-to-hand bayonet encounters took place. Both sides lost heavily. One ,, '. Servian division captured an entire de- r tachmont of Bulgarian Infantry of over i . ? 1000 men and 150 officers, with ten guna. j Bulgars Gaining. ' LONDON. July 2. An Athens dispatch I to tlio Dolly Mail says the Greeks yes- ; terday attacked the Bulgarians on the v River Vardar. Large forces were engaged. The Greeks at first woro victorious, but .': ) later tho Bulgarians were apparently jj gaining- tho advantage. ' .f ' Guevgheli Recaptured. LONDON, Juy 2. A Belgrade dispatch to the Dally Telegraph reports that the Greek3 wont to the assistance of the Ser- " vlans, and after heavy fighting recap- ;;; turcd Guevgheli. The Bulgarians met -. with real disaster when In an attack on y. r.- the Servian positions at Retklbukwe. on ' the lanfcs of the Zletovo river, they at- !M ,.?.! tempted desperate assaults with tho bay- - '. onet. Those failed and tho Bulgarians v( left behind a thousand dead and . ; wounded. vv BOTH SIDSS LOSE t j j j HE A VILY IN FIGHT M BELGRADE, Juy 2. Army headquar- jVS--! tra report that the Servians, after cap- ' turing Istlp, puraued tho enemy, captur- "'" 'ijij Ing more than 100 officers and 100O men. Press dispatches say sanguinary fight- , lng has takon place at Ovtchopalye, where the Bulgarian losses wcro enormous and ;jjJ 4000 Bulgarians surrendered. In this en- ,ti l;lm gagement JJOOO Servians were killed and iifMIn wounded. a(ffl According to the best Information hero l''?t iB tho battle line extended from Kotchana, ' sUliSi Istlp and Strumlts towards Guevgheli. -iH'flH and thonco onward to tho Gulf of Orfall. jj The Bulgarians delivered their heaviest - i I I blows at Guevgheli, whoro thev savored ' 9 tho Grooce-Servlan lino, and at Istlp. They still hold Guevgheli, but were driven from Istlp eventually with heavy i W - (Contiuncd on Pago Two.H , k ALLIES 10W FIGHT OVER THE SPOILS (Continued from Pago Ono.) losses towards Ovtchepalyn, where tho Servinn army was massed The Servian supporting forces met the Bulgarians at Dermak and Petrlshlno. where u fierce fight ensued. The Bulgarians suffered heavily. On the other side of Guevghell the Greek armies arc concentrated and the Bulgarians risk being caught between be-tween two fires. Confirmed dispatches tonight report further heavy fighting In the Jstlp district. dis-trict. In which the Servians were compelled com-pelled to abandon their fortified positions at the town of istlp and leave behind their wounded. Fifty-four officers, including four colonels, colo-nels, wero among the killed, while the losses on both sides numbered several thousand. , Although Ihe war has now raged for sixty hours, the Bulgarian minister anil his staff are still here. Telephonic coin-muulcaliou coin-muulcaliou between Belgrade and Sofia hns ceased. According to the latest advices from 'the front, the Bulgarians have been driven off the territory which they occupied oc-cupied when they took the Servians unawares. un-awares. The Bulgarian right wing has been routed. It Is asserted that tho fighting fight-ing was the bloodiest in the history of Balkan wars. Appeals to Russia. LONDON, July Tho Bulgarian government gov-ernment has addressed an urgent appeal to Russia, according to a Sofia dispatch to the Times, Invoking Intervention at Athens and Belgrade in the hope of preserving pre-serving peace- Bulgaria undertaken to abstain from any hostile movement for twenty-four hours, the disp;iteh says, but fcare that a longer suspension of hostilities would be impossible, owing to the excitement among the troops. The Constantinople correspondent of the Times believes that the porte, through Russia, has demanded from Bulgaria Bul-garia speedy withdrawal of all Bulgarian troops left at various points on the Turkish Turk-ish side of the Enos-Mldla frontier. Rumania PIobilizing. BERLIN, July 3. A Bucharest dispatch lo the Vosslschc Zcltung says that a mobilization order lias been sent out by the Rumanian government. Massacre by Bulgars, SALONIKA. July 2. According to a current report, the Bulgarians have burned the town of Guevghell and the villages of Stoyacotl, Soho and Berovo, massacreing old men and women and children. |