Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Turkish Troops Fight Before Foe; Menace Capital.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 30, 1913:
Friends of Nazim Pasha Demand Fall of Cabinet and Punishment of His Slayers.
MANY OFFICERS ARE SLAIN
Numerous Bloody Clashes Along the Tchatalja Lines — Garrison on Black Sea Disarmed.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS ENDED
Allies Ready to Resume War — Savoff Tells His Men to Win New Victories.
DELEGATES ARE GOING HOME
But Four Will Stay In London — Belief That Efforts Will Be Concentrated Against Adrianople.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Thursday, Jan. 30.— The Matin's correspondent at Constantinople telegraphs that a mutiny broke out in the Turkish Army at Tchatalja after the coup d'état. Forty-two officers were killed or wounded and 170 wounded officers and men were taken to San Stefano.
    The news of the overthrow of Kiamil Pasha, the Grand Vizier, says the correspondent, was known at Tchatalja on Thursday night. Immediately the officers who were supporters of the murdered Nazim Pasha met under the Presidency of Fuad Pasha and drafted a note to the Grand Vizier, demanding the punishment of the murderers and the resignation of the Ministry.
    When this communication was being read over, a number of Young Turk officers appeared on the scene and a fight ensued, in which 42 officers were killed or wounded.
    The correspondent adds that throughout Saturday numerous fights took place along the Tchatalja lines. Many wounded have arrived in Constantinople. The Circassion battalion has resolved to avenge the death of Nazim.
    The Committee of Union and Progress met in extraordinary session and decided to send Talaat Bey and Enver Bey to Tchatalja to restore order, but at the last moment gave up the project. On Tuesday the Military League decided to send a mission to the Sultan demanding that Mahmud Shefket Pasha should be deprived of office and Kiamil Pasha reinstated.
    The revolt was not confined to the Tchatalja garrison. At the entrance to the Black Sea, near Constantinople, mutineers had to be disarmed and replaced by others.

By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Thursday, Jan. 30.— The long suspended peace negotiations between Turkey and the Balkan States have reached the point of rupture, and unless something unforeseen occurs between now and Sunday or Monday the war will be resumed.
    At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Servian Chargé d'Affaires paid a visit to Rechad Pasha, chief of the Turkish delegates, and delivered the following formal note:
    The plenipotentiaries of the Allied States, having since the suspension of the work of the Peace Conference awaited in vain for three weeks the reply of the Ottoman plenipotentiaries to their last demands, and the events occurring in Constantinople appearing to them to have destroyed the hope of arriving at the conclusion of peace, they, to their great regret, are obliged to declare the negotiations commenced in London on Dec. 16 last, broken off.
    The document was signed by the delegates of all the Balkan States, headed by Dr. Daneff of Bulgaria.
    The Servian Chargé then proceeded to the Foreign Office and handed to Sir Edward Grey a letter setting forth the allies' decision and expressing the delegates' gratitude for the cordial hospitality which Great Britain had extended to them during their stay in England.
    The Governments of Bulgaria, Servia, and Montenegro were at once informed that the negotiations were formally ended, so that they might, without further delay, instruct the commanders in the field to give the four days' notice terminating the armistice. As the Greeks were not parties to the armistice, they were not directly concerned in this formality.
    The Turkish reply to the collective note of the powers is expected to-day. Reports from Constantinople state that it proposes concessions, probably in the direction of the neutralization or division of Adrianople, but it is almost certain that such a concession would not be accepted by the Balkan States.
    The Bulgarian delegates gave a farewell luncheon to their Balkan colleagues yesterday. All the missions are preparing to leave London at the end of the week.

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