Bombardment Again Fires Adrianople.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 5, 1913:
Forty Big New Servian Guns Being Used — Besieged Are Without Fuel.
A FIGHT NEAR GALLIPOLI
Bulgarian Victory There Might Enable the Greek Fleet to Pass Through the Dardanelles.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON. Wednesday, Feb. 5.— A telegram from Belgrade to The Daily Mail, dated yesterday, says:
    "Telegrams just received from Demotika, some twenty miles south of Adrianople, state that the bombardment of the besieged city continued to-day, and that the Turkish response was weak.
    "Forty new Servian seven-inch guns are now being used against the city. Their shells are falling in the town, part of which is again in flames.
    "The outposts of the besieged and the advanced posts of the besiegers are in some places only 200 yards apart.
    "Refugees from the town report that the besieged still have fair quantities of breadstuffs, but no fuel. Dysentery is gaining ground, and there is a lack of medical supplies."
    The Daily Chronicle's Constantinople correspondent wires:
    "The diplomatic situation and the whole position with regard to the reopening of hostilities are very obscure. No one seems able to dissipate the uncertainty which prevails. Even the statement which Mahmud Shefket, the Grand Vizier, made to me during an interview which I had with him this (Tuesday) morning shows the disposition of the Government and military circles to adopt a Micawberlike attitude.
    " ' The bombardment of Adrianople,' Shefket declared, 'began last evening at 7:48. Since I assumed office I had done everything possible to avoid the reopening of hostilities. The responsibility for that lamentable event must rest entirely with the allies. So far as Tchatalja is concerned, no gun has yet been fired by either side across the swamps which separate the two armies. We are determined to wait and see what the enemy is going to do.'

Turkey's Treasury Empty.
    "Djavid Bey reached Constantinople yesterday from Constanza. He had interviews with many prominent Turkish rentiers with a view to procuring an internal loan, but without great success. The Treasury is utterly empty. The December salaries have not yet been paid, though they are promised daily. The popular subscription, which has been started, has only raised an insignificant sum.
    "A high military authority told me to-day that Adrianople was still in a position to hold out for weeks, and that the commander there, Shukri Pasha, had informed the Government by wireless that the town was in no danger of having to surrender. Shukri has told the Government to make its military plans without worrying about Adrianople, the garrison being still in a position to make short work of attacks upon it."
    The correspondent adds that he has been informed that war correspondents may later on receive every facility for witnessing the operations.