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Show 1 THOUSANDS DEAD I IN BESIEGED CITY l , . ! Typhus Breaks Out In Adrianople and Adds to Ijl Other Horrors of War Both Turks and If Allies Are Attacked By Disease j ASK SURRENDER OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1 I I Two American Cruisers, Tennessee and Montana, I Leave For Turkish Waters to Protect Interests I of Americans Consider Intervention. ft m Washington, Nov. S. Two big, W American armored cruisers, the Ten- WM nessee and the Montana ,have been given rush orders to proceed to Turk- jX$ Ish waters to look aftor the inter- Hjyff ests of American citizens. Xfr Vienna, Nov, STJko Vienna eor- ti respondent at the front writes that H the Turkish troops have been ro- Hf pulsed from the principal points of Rl the Tchatalja line, the fall of which Vf is expected immediately. . WKj The Turkish advance posts on the if right wing opposite the fort 'of lit Deliyunus have been captured al- rM&. ready by Bulgarian troops oelonging 1 to the third column and their posts K form excellent bases for pushing (E home attacks on the other Hues Iwt According to prisoners, the corrcs-M corrcs-M pondent adds, typhus- has broken out an Adrianople and is causing great Im devastation among the defending a m force. There are already several if 1 thousand cases of sickness an. I horri-l horri-l bio tales are told of the trouble aris-jj aris-jj ing from the lack of doctors in the j i besieged city. In spite of numerous losses, there J are still from 10,000 to 50,000 men , engaged in the defence of the citj, J and although there are several Turk-5 Turk-5 ish healers in the city, there '.- not a single- doctor who has received a -1 'f European education. I II Although the Turks arc physically f ptrong and are used to privation, hun-Ipj hun-Ipj for and illness are doing more dam-Ill dam-Ill rgr thanks the enemy. JJkL iTbp corninander oft the Bulgarian i , '5Vctms force isff.ing ills'- attend vf, ' tion on the complete encircling of I ) the city and ho ors not contemplate j) ; p-ak'ng a forced conquest of the i i foi tress. j mi ronstantinoplo. Nov. S. Public Us opinion in Constnntinoplc Is strongly '1 opposed to the idea if seeking medl- 9 otlnn or peace. 'M Nazim Pasha, the Turkish com- 9 uiander in chief, has reported to the M government that the armv is deter- n-!n?-l to fight uutil victorious or ab- solutclv defeated. He regards the re- vc-rscs" sustained as unfortrnate. but M eavs the brae Ottoman army is con- &m tldout of ultimate success and that the I n-h-le corps or officers is unanimous K of continuing the war. The principal officers in Constanti- nople have handed the grand vizier a f signed declaration in the same spirit. .1. and the party of Union and Progress 'm promises to support the government E In prosec ting the war with energy. Pr These eonsiueratin are having weight mk with the governmenv. 3 Reconnaisance by the eastern army II ' today at Tchorlu failed to show the Si 1 presence of any Bulgarians, but Na-g Na-g ( zim Pasha reports that a Bulgarian I rcconnoitcrlng party was repulsed I about four miles from Rndosto. I So far as can be learned here there . has been little change In the mili-II' mili-II' r tan situation in the last 24 hors. A i port of self-imposed armistice ob-Tfl ob-Tfl tnlns on the Thraccan plains. I 'i Both sides require time to rest and I organize after their exhaustive ef-, 5? rts , , .. I Further rains have transformed the 5i p'alns to a morass. The roads are S. difTlcult for transport and it Is be- i lieved bv TurkiBh officers that prob- j) ably a week will elapse before hos- f ttlltfes are resumed along the Tcnat- alja lines. This battle is expected to decide the campaign. The rumor that '; Salonlkl has been occupied baa not been confirmed, but it I known that ti the town is hard pressed. Mussulman refugees continue to ar-' ar-' live at the outskirts or the capital f from practically the whole country ff ; ' routh of the Bulgarian advance. The I i - scene outside the city walls at the ;;, Adrianople gate Is one of dlrerul dis-I dis-I ) trese t , I ;'. Mon. women and children, carts and V cattle arc huddled together. The au-(lii au-(lii I thoritlcs arc trying to supply the .m-M .m-M mediate wants vt the refugees and V l have decided to send them to Asia llj Minor. Thousands have tramped the Zk countrv the last ten days and have St , indcrgone intense suffering. Thv' ' say they feared the invaders would f ' burn the villages. I ; The ambassadors of the five powers l held a meeting this morning at the I I Porte and there mot the grand vizier f,! ; and the foreign minister. It is un-St un-St 'i derstood t'ney discussed measures of . public safety and the question of me-A me-A I : diatlon, but nothing is known of the , , decisions rcachod. fj i The powers have made no move 1 1 with reference to mediation. I 'Ep Report of frlassacrc. !J5 Constantinople, Nov. 8. Fuglttve Turkish soldiers are reported to have massacred people of the village of Silivri, on the coast of the sea of Marmora and southwest of the Tchatalja Tcha-talja forts. A disease resembling cholera 1i?b broken out among the wounded Turkish Turk-ish soldiers arriving in Constantinople. Constanti-nople. Must Deal Direct. Sofia, Nov. S. The Bulgarian cabinet cab-inet maintains the absoluto necessity of any peace negotiations with Turkey Tur-key being conducted directly with the, Balkan nations in order to insure the future position of the various states Involved and to prevent the danger of further conflict aftor the war has ceased. Will Continue War. Constantinople, Nov. S. There Is every Indication hero now that the war"agaln8t the Balkan allies will be j continued to the bitter end, as advised ad-vised by Nazim Pasha, the Turkish 1 commander-in-chief. I Officers of the army join with the j Turkish press in applauding tho de-I de-I termination of the commander-in-1 chief to continue the fight W1H Not Interfere. Berlin. Nov. S. Gormany, Austria (Hungary and Italy will not intervene In the Balkan situation so long as 'their special interests arc not affected affect-ed and unless they are requested to do so by the belligerent nations. This determination was reported following a series of conferences held here bctwqen the Marquis di San Giullanp, Italian foreign minister,- the imperial- chancellor ami the -foreign secretary of Germany, at which the Austrian ambassador also was present. pres-ent. 1 In a semi-official statement issued today it was announced that the three powers belonging to tho triple alll-enco alll-enco will follow a common course in regard to the Balkans, at tho same time keeping In friendly touch with the other powers. Vienna. Nov. S. Informal negotiations negoti-ations for the surrender of Constantinople Constan-tinople have been alreadv entered upon, up-on, according to the correspondent of the Reichspost with the BulgarlVj army. He added the Bulgarians ho i the fall of the Turkish line of forts ut Tchatalja would be simultaneous with the capture of the fortress at Ardla-nople Ardla-nople Begin Peace Proposals Cologne, Germany, Nov. 8. It is reported In Sofia, says a dispatch to the Cologne Gazette, that the Porte j has proposed to Bulgaria to "egin i peace negotiations nrithout the med- iatiou of the powers. On War Footing. j St. Petersburg, Nov. S. Th-j Rus- j sian goernment has decided t . re- I tain all the tlm.e-expired soldiers of ! the Russian arm In acti-? Venice with their regiments until next spring This places the Russian army practically on a war footing |