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Show PRINCE DESCRIBES FALL OF SALONIKI ATHENS. Nov. n. The capitulation of the Turkish rortrn.is of Sulonlkl. as well na Fort Knrabunm vu ilgncd Inst night, according to an oftWit dispatch received by King rteorg of Orftec. Twenty-five thousand TurUlfh tronpe HUrrendcred. Advice reTcUvJ fpvn frown Prince Constantino tonisht give details of the capitulation of Sulomkl "All duor and night (Thursday) our troops were eroding the Axlos bridge." says the dispatch. "Last night tnj consuls con-suls of England. Germany, France and Austria, with the commandant of Saloniki Sa-loniki and representatives of Taholn PaMi. commander of the Turkish army, oame to me at beaOcuarters to submit proposal for th. capitulation of lh urmv They asked that the urmv. whl'e rtngggliiK to remain neutral until thr end of the war, should be allowed to reUltt their arms "I refused, making the surrender of arms an absolute condition jmd only conceding con-ceding that their nrrnn should be returned re-turned to then at the end of the tvat. I give them until 5 o'clock in the morning morn-ing to reply. ''As It happened at 5 o'clock this mornlnc fFrfday"). th commandant of Saloniki, accompanied by the diplomatic agenU. returned with a counter proposition propo-sition admitting Ui surrender Of arms, but demanding til eoctmptlon of 5000 rlflea destined for tho Instruction of recruit! re-cruit! This requett havlnjr been re-fused, re-fused, they dtparted, but obtained a fur ther delay of two hours in order to make an arrangement with the Turkish command com-mand or. "As they had not returned at the stipulated stip-ulated time. I ordered our troops to march, which they did at n o'clock In tho morning. When our lines drew near the enemy's advanced outoosts towards half phhI four In the afternoon, Tahsln Pasha sent an officer with a letter declaring de-claring that he accepted my conditions. I therefore suspended the forward nmreh and sent two officers to dnw up a protocol pro-tocol for tho surrender of arms and the capitulation of the town Invested by our troops. "The Turkish officers have been authorized au-thorized to keep their swords, on condition condi-tion that they give their parole to tattc no further part In the war." |