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Show FIERCE BATTLES IOALKAHS Fighting Between Opposing Forces Results in Terrible Slaughter of Human Lives NO PROSPECT OF PEACE SOON Roumnnia and Turkey May- Be Drawn Into Conflict if Hos- i tilities Continue - Saloniki, July 7. Late advices say the Greeks have repulsed the Bulgarian attack on Guev-gheli. Guev-gheli. Paris, July 7. The Servian goveriment todav made an ap- peal through its legation in ' - Paris for doctors and nurses to a. - aid the Servian wounded, who : ., are so numerous that they are beyond the surgical resources L. of Servia. i - London, July 7. The most important news -from the seat " of war today is the report, con- I firmed from Sofia, of the ap- 1 pearance of a large Bulgarian force at Vrania, threatening the 1 ., .lPrvian l'ne f retreat. L x jng away their firearms anjl using their bayonts as daggers. i . This accords with the informa- I " tion from many sources of the I s sanguinary character of the ' v-' I nJ fighting and the wholesale $""" slaughter witnesseed in the 1,77 present struggle. ;. fc"? Whatever -the policy:' ,o -the W European powers may be, little ' W'1 s- now near( attempts to j'. ;5sS stop the war. The embasadorial fl& .- conference met in Londoa again r A 1 t0dav- but apparently did little ' r- "except discuss the boundaries of S ' Albania, "'. Meanwhile, Rumania ; -If and Turkey give signs that ' v ivsF they will not long be idle spec- ", 7- tators ifjf-the Balkan states con- J &. . -tinue the struggle which will """, p paralyze them for yaers to come. fe. - News ipf the fighting continues u contradictory in character. It 'u' is almost invariably from official -; SsL1 . sources in the respective capitols ; '' Ssw.; no independent testimony is ''.' v-V ' available. This applies equally to V :: the struggle between the Greeks ; and the Bulgarians and between .. " , . the Servians and Bulgarians. j""' A dispatch from Saloniki re- '.' ports that the Greeks have oc- f cupied Demirhissir and Strum- itza, and, according to the most - likely information, the Bulgar- ; ian General Ivanoff has been r ,;& slowly retiring before the super- f 1 ior Greek forces northward since '"'' livJ ?' hB army was weakened by the p r , departure of his right wing to . tf'y attack Kriyolak. - '! - ' It should be noted that another .;, dispatch asserts that General r . Ivanoff, by an unexpected at- , " tack, scattered the Greek army :' ',:''--v'of 80.Q00 commanded by King Constantine, and occupied ' ftigrita and other points on the ( Qreek line. It is possible that both reports are correct and that i '. the one crediting victory to '" General Ivanoff has reference ,n7 to a later date, after the Bul- Wa garian commander was rein- "'$ V forced. : k. . ' " ! 'W 'jit ' ' " ' ' An intresting detailed report from Greek official sources of last week's operations .describes how the Bulgarians by incessant labor had transformed Kilkish into another Plvna with a surprising sur-prising extent of trenches, guns and defenses, and asserts that the Greeks by their successful advances prevented the successful success-ful execution of a plan for a Bulgarian attack on Salbniki. It is given out that on July 4th the Greeks lost 10,000 men , while the Bulgarian loss is believed be-lieved to have been equally as great. The report further describes the heroic deeds of the left division of Eyoznes, which engaged en-gaged in a fierce battle to force the fortified passes of Kalinovo in order to participate in the pursuit of the Bulgarian fugitives fugi-tives from Kilkish. They occupied occu-pied the abrupt heights before Kalinovo after a wonderful bayonet charge, capturing works believed to be impregnable. |