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Show TURKS CONTINUE I WAR OF PILLAGE R BY GORDON ROSE, (Special Correspondent of the International Interna-tional News Service and tho London Chronicle.) Special Cable to The Tribune. ARTA, Nov. 12. Bight hundred Turkish Turk-ish regulars. lfiO gendarmerlo and 300 Albanians, tinder orders of the commandant com-mandant of the gendarmerie of Tanlna, have pillaged and burned live more vil-Inges, vil-Inges, making a total of eleven. Six thousand women and children living liv-ing near Tanlna are starving, deriving scant nourishment from roots and leaves. Numbers of them are dying daily of fever. In ono village twenty-five prominent promi-nent men. two of them priests, were cut into Gmall plcceu. The details are unprintable. un-printable. In another village twelve girls wore Impaled after revolting mutilation. Heavy ransoms are bolng oxactcd under un-der threat of death from wealthy prisoners. pris-oners. TurklBh officers pocketing the pro-ceeds. pro-ceeds. Tho officers are also deriving profit from the sale of plundered herds of cattle in Albanian villages. Turks Lose Heavily. BBLGRADB. Nov. 12. The Servian casualties a.t the battle of Perlepo are now stated to havo numbered about 3000, mostly slightly wounded. The Turks loEt 80,000 men. At the battle of Krushovo, the Sorvlan loBsea totaled 300 and the Turkish casualties 1700. Bombarding Tarakosch. P.1EKA, Montenegro, Nov. 12. The bombardment of tho Turkish city of Tarakosch on Lake 8cutarl, continued throughout Sunday. Toward evening thj Turkish nanison withdrew to the highest points of the works, which are on the side of the mountains. Their position was rendered so dosperate by exposure to Uie snow and by lock of provisions that they attempted later to abandon all positions and escape Into the city of Scutari. Thev were, however, driven back into Tarakosch Tara-kosch by the Montenegrin troops. Missionaries Safe. j NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Cleveland H. I)odge of this city today received the following cablegram from Dr. Gates, president of Robert college at Constantinople: Con-stantinople: "Constantinople, Nov. .LI. "The missionaries and colleges of Constantinople aro all right. Tho city is tranquil. Our college is in session as usual." American Greeks Arrive. ATHENS. Nov. 12. A body of 1500 Greek reservists from America arrived today. A detail of 300 military police has left for. Saloniki to police the city. Warns Belgium. By International News Sorvico. BRUSS'ELS. Nov. 12. Tn hip address aL the reopening of parliament tonight the premier. M. Do Broquovllle. urged that Belgium immediately strengthen her army in view of the probable attempt to occupy Belgium by the powor8 in the event that they become belligerents over the Balkan question. Adds to Burden. CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 12. The sholks have been agitating for the Issuance Issu-ance of an imperial decree ordering the reading of certain verses of the Koran and reciting verses which would greatly Increase the labor of the Imperial court and other departments already overwhelmed over-whelmed with work. Austria's Advice. BELGRADE, Nov 12. The newspaper Pravnda says the Augtro-Hungarian minister min-ister called today on Premier Patchltieh and proposed that Servla should give guarantees that Au6tro-IIungnrlan Industry In-dustry and commerce would receive preferential pref-erential treatment; that Servla should not touch Albania and should not Insist on an outlet to the Adriatic, but bj satisfied sat-isfied with an outlet to tlie Aegean sea. The minister personally advlstd the premier" to do his utmost to Induco the Servian government to accept these con-ditionar con-ditionar which he declared would do much to improve future relations between be-tween the two countries. |