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Show RUSSIANS TO FIGHT IN BEHALF OF SLA VS By General Count Spiridovitcli, President Of the Slavic Societies. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, Oct. 12. OffloioJ Riuwia will make effort to localize the war, but the whole Russian population of 170,000,000 Is ready to holp the weaker brethren In the quadruple . alliance of Bulgaria, Servia, Greece and Montenegro. They have made a great stroke of policy pol-icy by pushing little Montenegro ahead, with its population of 2.10.000. asalnst th 2o,000,000 of the Turkish empire Tho whole Slavic race 1b proud of this hcrolo step by King Nicholas, the greatest of Slavs, ,"the glorious old eagle of Montenegro," Monte-negro," as they" call him. Men and money will pour from Russia aftor the llrst news tlmt Slavn have been killed. Tou cannot push a Russian toward aggrandizement, but he goes aht;ad himself when the question Ik of holplng the weak. "When tho Russian Rus-sian people hear today of Christian mas-nncrcs mas-nncrcs by the Turks, they cannot be held back from helping their brethren. Has Powerful Relatives. King Nicholas, now at the head of the Montenegrin troops. Is a field marshal of Russia, father-in-law of the king of Italy and of the Grand Duke Nicholas, com-mapder-ln-chioC of th Russian army, numbering 6,000,000 nien. Tho attitude of JPrancn and England makes the tank of driving Turkev out of IDuropo harder. "XVhat tho Slavic races have to do and America will cooperate co-operate with thcro Is to create of Macedonia Mace-donia and Albania Independent states; Armenia must, have a Christian governor genoralr Crete, JSplrus and the Island must bo handed over to Greece: Old Sor-vla Sor-vla to, Servia; the strip of territory called B.azar Sanjak, betwoen Montenegro nnd Servia, should be given to MontonGgro. That leaves Turkey, Adrlajiople and Constantinople Con-stantinople with its provlnon and the enormous lorrltory of Asia Minor. The provinces seeking frocdom have few Turks excopt troops. Tho people are sr downtrodden they are afraid to cultivate cul-tivate the soil. Hence, the richest of European provinces look like flesorls and bring no income to tho Impoverished coffers cof-fers of Turkey, whereas, if they were free they would develop Into prosperous countries coun-tries like Bulgaria. Causes of the War, Tho caueii of this war s.ro: First, Turkish misrule of her Cliri.i-.tlnn Cliri.i-.tlnn provinces, a disgrace to civilization. There Is no blackoi' blot upon the civilized civil-ized countries than tho way they have permitted Turkey to tyrannise over her Christian provinces. Second, continuous massacre throughout through-out the Turkish empire, massacres qulto as frequent under the Young Turks as when he whom Gladstone called Abdul tho Damned reigned at Constantinople. There are no enterprising newspapers to publish tho red records of murder. One can get no news out of the Turkish empire, but If the American people want to know the extent of the maaeaores let them ask their missionaries in Armenia and elsewhere-Turkish elsewhere-Turkish rulo of Christian provinces can not he mended; therefore it should ba ended. Bourses in Panic. LONDON. Oct. 12. The stock market mar-ket closed weak and nervous today aftor experiencing the most depressing weok for some time. The weakness was due to the commencement of wtit In the Balkans, which caused a heavy fall in prices in practically all sections. Dealers in stocks took tho first unfavorable unfa-vorable ocw3 from the near east ealm-ly. ealm-ly. Thoy marked, down a few quotations in a precautionary manner, nut when panicky sclliue by Paris and Berlin started in foreign shares, the relapse became general, priucipall- in the speculative spec-ulative departments. Tho fortnightly Fottlemcnt, with heavy -differences to meet caused locnl forced liquidation, and, doHpito a temporary recovery on hopes of the powers beinc Jible io check tho waT, the hoaviness became more pronounced Friday and toflay, and ever3'thinir from conaola to kaffers do-clinod do-clinod sharply. Amoriean shares resisted tho vlopros-sion vlopros-sion fairly well until Friday, vrhon Wall street and the continent threw out stocks freely, and today another Te-Inpso, Te-Inpso, duo to renewed continental sell-inp:, sell-inp:, put valuoB ccnorally $2 to ;?5 lower than last .Saturday, whi'io Canadian Pa-cilic Pa-cilic lost 17 pointfl. Cross the Border. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oot, 12.Mont-enoprin 12.Mont-enoprin troops have crossed the bordor into the Sanjak of Novipazar and aro now attacking Sictitcu, according to official of-ficial information received "by the portc today. Sictitza. ia a town close to tho Servian frontior. Tnrks Fight Desperately. LONDON, Oot. 12. Turkish fcroopn on the Montenegrin frontier are offering stubborn resistance to tho Montenegrin advanco on Bcutari, according to tho latest lat-est advices from Podgoritza. Tho fighting fight-ing has boen severe, both armies losing heavily. The Montenegrin army iB advancing ad-vancing in two columnB. one oporating to the north of Iuho fcJcuturl and the other having its baso at Antiyari, to tho south oC Lake Soutari. King Nicholas' infantry proved admirable ad-mirable The heavy fijrbtlnff Invotvcd in the at-taeka at-taeka by tho Montenegrins on the forts at Schlpchlnck hill, Rofjame nnd Branya coat In killed and wounded 600 tnon to tho Turks and 400 to tho Montenegrins. The arrival of the Montenegrin wounded at the frontier gave rise To rumoro In Cettlnjo that the Montenegrin army had been defeated. Other reports say that vlllagco on both sides of the Boyana river, where tho Montenegrin Mon-tenegrin general, Martlnovttch, In said to have met with a. choek from the Turku, are In flamoB, and that Oeneral Vuko-tltch. Vuko-tltch. who Is operating In the Boyana district, has croesed the 1,1m river with his troopa. A Turkish account of the operations from Salonlkl says the flghtlmr has neon fierce, but that the Turkish troopn have held their positions. A special dispatch from Celtinje says official Information has reached there that tho Montenegrin troops vesterdii.v occupied Byelopolle, In tho Sanjak of Novlpazar. without rlstanco, and are now marching against Cubanco. Collective Note. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct 12. Tho text of the colloctlvo note handed bv the representatives rep-resentatives of tho powers to "the Ottoman Otto-man government on Thursday iu asi follows: fol-lows: "The undersigned, embassadors nf Austria-Hungary. Great Britain. Franvc, Russia, and Germany, have been Instructed In-structed by their respective trovcrnmnla to Inform tho aubllmc porto that, the five powers tako note of the Intention of Tur key, publicly announced, to lnt.-oduce reforms, re-forms, and they will immediately discuss with the porto, In the spirit of article 23 of the treaty of Berlin and the law of 1830. the reformn required in tho administration admin-istration of European Turkoy. and the measures capably of assuring their ral-Icatlon ral-Icatlon In the interest of the populations. It being understood that the reforms will not affect the territorial Intcgiily of th Ottoman empire." Turkish Version. c?STAJNTr.NOPLE. Oct. 12. Th- relief re-lief or tho town of Bema by Turkish reinforcements re-inforcements Ik reported bv the mllltan commander of Scutari today. M0 al-b sa.ya tho Turks havo rroccuplrd Hip neigh ts around tho town of Guslnyo n-ar the Montenegrin frontier to the northwest north-west of Podgoritza. Bulgarians blow up two bridges betwen Isllp and Kotschana during tho night, according ac-cording to a telegram from Uukup. Sultan's Proclamation. LONDON. Oct 12.-."Tonr enemies an-gathering an-gathering on the frontier, .seeking to snatch your patrimony from you and to destroy the happiness of your sons and grandnons. It depends on you to prevent thorn from treading one Inch of the pacrvl soil soaked In tho blood of your ancestors Fight with the courage of those anci-a-tors." ThuB the sultAn of Turkoy today Issued Is-sued a proclamation and ordered tht mobilization mo-bilization of his. army to defend the empire. em-pire. Time Limit Expires. ROMU, Oct. 12. Italy's limit of time granted to- Turkey for tho definite conclusion con-clusion of peace expires today, after wlitch. If nny clauflft of tho proposed agreement Is not accepted by Turkv, Italy will consider borself free to continue operations. |