Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Scutari Entered By Montenegrins.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 23, 1913:
Long Siege of the Powerful Fortress Ended, Says Cettinje Announcement.
BULGARS MENACING GREEKS
Both Sides Are Rushing Forces to Salonika, Which Both Nations Are Claiming.
    CETTINJE, Wednesday, April 23.— It is officially announced here that the Montenegrin forces have entered Scutari.

Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Wednesday, April 23.— M. H. Donohoe. The Daily Chronicle's special correspondent at Salonika, sends a dispatch showing that the danger of an outbreak of war between the allies is increasing. He says that, while professing the most pacific intentions toward each other, Greece and Bulgaria are rapidly drifting in the direction of war, Salonika being the prize in dispute. There is a possibility of a lamentable conflict unless the powers intervene to settle the dispute.
    The Greeks declare themselves ready to hold Salonika against Bulgaria at all costs. They have mobilized every available soldier, and are now rapidly concentrating in the field in defense of the threatened city, in case the Bulgarians attempt to wrest from them the prize won from Turkey. The Bulgarians are preparing for emergencies. It is estimated that they have 90,000 soldiers facing the Greeks.

    LONDON, April 22.— Pending the conclusion of a formal armistice covering the operations of all the allies, the Montenegrins have been renewing their desperate efforts to capture Scutari.
    There is no confirmation of the story from Trieste that, owing to the exhaustion of food supplies, the commander of Scutari was endeavoring to negotiate for its surrender, but a Belgrade dispatch says that the Montenegrins then had all the Servian heavy artillery before Scutari and were employing it in their present attack, although the Servian troops had either left or are leaving that district.
    A report published at Bucharest says that under the settlement arranged at St. Petersburg Rumania will receive Silistria, with about two miles of territory around the town, and the right to erect fortifications. .

    CONSTANTINOPLE, April 22.— The Greeks and the Servians to-day concluded an agreement with Turkey similar to that made between Bulgaria and Turkey, by the terms of which hostilities are to be suspended for ten days.
    The Greek and Turkish Governments have also agreed to begin the repatriation of Turkish prisoners of war. The first batch of 5,000 has been sent to the Turkish seaport of Mersina, in Asia Minor. The conditions of the agreement stipulate that the men must not take part in further military operations, and that the Greek transports must not be molested by Turkish warships.
    Vessels have been placed at the disposal of the Turkish Government by Greece for the conveyance of 3,000 Mussulmans who desire to emigrate from Salonika to Scalanova in Asia Minor.

    VIENNA, April 22.— A Trieste dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse says that the Austro-Hungarian Military Attache at Cettinje, wishing to proceed to Cattaro, found the frontier closed against him. He was stoned and insulted by Montenegrins at Cettinje. The Austrian Minister has sent a protest to the Government.

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