Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Bulgarians' Prompt Answer to Peace Proposals Is a Fresh Assault and Victory.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 15, 1912:
TO CONSTANTINOPLE NOW
The Army Demands the Crowning Achievement Before an Armistice Is Granted.
FIERCE FOUR DAYS' BATTLE
Lieut. Wagner Tells of the Victory and of the Army's Demands.
CONFIRMATION FROM SOFIA
Account from the Bulgarian Capital Says Six of the Tchatalja Forts Were Taken.
SEVERE TERMS OF PEACE
Cession of Conquered Territory, Internationalization of Constantinople, and a War Indemnity.
TURKS' WARSHIPS IN ACTION
Train Their Big Guns on Enemy Near the Sea and Hamper the Bulgarians.
FIGHTING AT ADRIANOPLE
Thousands of Turks Killed In Sorties That Are Shattered by the Besiegers.
By LIEUT. WAGNER,
The Only Correspondent at the Front on the Bulgarian Side.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
By arrangement with The Vienna Reichspost.
    HEADQUARTERS OF THE BULGARIAN ARMY, Nov. 14.— After four days' murderous fighting the Bulgarian Army has succeeded in breaking through the Turkish position at Tchatalja in the centre of the lines and in completely rolling up the Turkish defense.
    The Bulgarian advance is being pushed forward with the greatest energy with a view to forcing the Turkish troops away from Constantinople.
    The Turkish supreme commander sent to the Bulgarian headquarters before Tchatalja an envoy to ask for the conclusion of an armistice.
    No definite answer was given by the Bulgarians, the Turkish request being forwarded to the royal headquarters.
    (The royal headquarters was recently separated from the army headquarters, as Lieut Wagner has telegraphed.)
    I learn from a well-informed personage that Bulgaria will examine the Turkish proposals, but will not allow them to prevent her continuing to carry on her military operations.
    After the Tchatalja position has been completely forced, the advance of the Bulgarian Army on Constantinople and the entry into the city will be carried out on the same lines as were followed by the Germans before Paris in 1871.
    The army insists on this crowning of its labors.
    The Bulgarian Supreme Commander is anxious, before granting an armistice, to create a situation which will allow the Turks no further chances from a military standpoint and which will bring the military operations on this front to a complete conclusion, so as to liberate the bulk of the Bulgarian forces for eventual employment in another direction.

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