A Great Power Menaces Turkey.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 21, 1912:
Kiamil Pasha Declares That a European Conflict Is Now Threatened.
APPEALS FOR ENGLISH AID
Allies Enter Ottoman Empire at Many Points and Meet Little Resistance.
ADRIANOPLE IS THREATENED
Bulgarians Near the City — Greeks at Mount Olympus—Servians Also Advancing.
Special Cable To The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, Oct. 21.— Turkish fears of a European intrigue are disclosed in dispatches from the correspondents of The Times and The Daily Chronicle at Constantinople. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent telegraphs:
    "Information has just come to the Porte which foreshadows grave eventualities owing to dispensions in the European concert and the possibility of the armed intervention of a certain power. In a sentence, Turkey, at war with four nations, now fears military action by a fifth.
    "In view of this situation. Kiamil Pasha, President of the Council, whom I saw to-day, desires to make a special appeal to England on various points. First of all, he expressed the hope that the English people would utterly disregard King Ferdinand's incitement to make a holy war of the struggle, pitting the Cross against the Crescent. The language of the King of Bulgaria he considers degrading and an attempt to cloud the real issue by the introduction of a religious factor.
    " ' This war.' said Kiamil Pasha, 'is likely to be bitter enough without letting loose religious passions. The Ottoman Government condemns it in the strongest possible manner.'
    "We condemn this pernicious attempt of a so-called Christian monarch to unchain fanaticism, with all its attendant evils. Turkey is fully aware that King Ferdinand's appeal to the worst of all human passions is chiefly intended for the gallery.
    "I am convinced." added Kiamil Pasha, "that the boasted humanity of Europe is dead and has been replaced by a skeleton, the dry bones of which shake only in the wind, when the selfishness and avariciousness of certain powers compel an appeal to the old spirit of humanity. King Ferdinand's hand is but that of a puppet, selected to strike at Turkey's heart.
    " 'I hope that England will be true to her splendid past and stand by us unflinchingly in the approaching hour of national peril. If we needs must fight out this unnecessary and futile war with the federated States, surely England is powerful and influential enough to see that the ring is not rushed, to see that Turkey is not assailed from another quarter while fighting for her life with her first foes.
    " 'As an old man, with one foot in the grave, I express with all seriousness the fear that the Balkan war will be a prelude to a gigantic struggle, involving Europe.
    " 'England has always been a sincere friend of international peace and of the integrity of Turkey. She has no Balkan axe to grind. Therefore we warn her now that we are threatened by a new enemy.
    " 'England's professed friendship for Turkey may shortly be put to a severe test. Turkey has nothing to gain by the present war, neither has Bulgaria if the powers are sincere in their expressed intention to maintain the status quo. Although provoked to the contest, Turkey will always be willing to hearken to counsels of peace, with due safeguards for the national dignity and honor.' "

Bulgarian Line 300 Miles Long.
    The Bulgarians are invading Turkey across a line nearly 300 miles in length, and the Turks are falling back without offering any effective opposition. The Bulgarians' objective is apparently Adrianople, toward which city at least three Bulgarian columns are moving, and it is there that the first big battle is expected, within the next few days.
    A Sofia dispatch says that the Bulgarian Left Army pushed forward to Kirk-Kilisseh, some thirty-three miles east of Adrianople, and shelled the town yesterday, and its fall is imminent. The Bulgarian advance guards have taken hundreds of prisoners near Adrianople.
    It is pointed out that there are numerous roads leading from Kirk-Kilisseh southward to the railway, which is the main artery of the Turkish Army. By following them it would be possible for the Bulgarians to get behind the Turks and cut off their retreat.
    The Bulgarian Centre has occupied Mustapha-Pasha, twenty miles from Adrianople, without serious resistance, inasmuch as the Bulgarian loss is stated to be only fourteen wounded.
    The Bulgarian Right appears to have crossed the frontier west of Mustapha-Pasha, and then to have turned south-ward to that place, capturing the town of Djumabala, all the Turks in the vicinity retiring behind the River Mesta,
    Small Bulgarian columns are vigorously attacking in other directions, having entered Turkey by at least three different routes, making a total of six columns invading Turkey. One column is pushing forward near Kirjali. Another column has cleared the tongue of Turkish territory immediately south of Philippopolis. A third column is re-ported to be near Djumabala, on the road which threatens the railway between Saloniki and Constantinople. It is stated that the notorious guerrilla, Sandansky, with 20,000 armed Bulgarian peasants, is moving to cut this line near Salonika, but he is likely to find it strongly guarded.
    The Servians also are on the march, menacing Uskub from two directions. They are moving two columns, said to be at least 150,000 strong. One column is proceeding down the railway from Vranje and the second along the mountain road from Kostendil in Bulgaria. This latter column has cleared the defile which debouches into Turkish territory through the Osigova Mountains. The latest news of the Servian Army comes in a Sofia dispatch to the effect that it has captured Egri-Palanka and Kumanova, which may be regarded as the key to Uskub.
    The Montenegrins have scored another minor success in the capture of the mountain village of Gusinje, thirty-five miles northeast of Scutari. This opens up the mountain track, whereby the Montenegrins can move to the rear of the Turkish garrison and isolate Scutari.
    Five divisions of the Greek Army, with the Crown Prince in supreme command, are now operating in Turkish territory. The Greeks have pressed forward some twenty miles without hard fighting, seizing Elassona at the foot of Mount Olympus, while a Greek force is threatening the Turkish fortress of Prevesa.
    A Constantinople dispatch says that eleven Greek ships, including the cruiser Averoff, have appeared off the Island of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea.