Turkish Armies March To War.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 14, 1913:
Move from Tchatalja to Co-operate with Rumanians Against the Bulgars.
BULGAR ATROCITIES RECITED
Eye-Witnesses Tell of Victims Crucified, Hacked to Pieces, and Burned Alive.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, July 14.— The Daily Mail's Constantinople correspondent says that an imperial decree was issued yesterday ordering the Sultan's armies to advance and occupy the territory remaining to Turkey which is not now occupied by the Turks. According to a news agency, the Ottoman advance began last night, apparently both at the Tchatalja lines and in the peninsula of Gallipoli. According to other advices no resistance was encountered. Furloughs have been stopped for officers and men. Those on leave returned to their regiments on Monday. Horses and transports are again being requisitioned.
    Everything points to Turkey's intention to take an active part in the war. It is stated in diplomatic circles that an arrangement is about to be concluded between Turkey and Rumania for joint action, in which case it is believed that the Turkish forces will not remain on the defensive in Turkish territory, but try to occupy the territory up to the Ergene River. Long negotiations took place yesterday between the Rumanian Minister and the Grand Vizier, and it is believed that an understanding has practically been reached. Rumania wants five torpedo boats, which Turkey is willing to lend conditionally upon Rumania supporting her.

Tell of Incredible Tortures.
    Balkan correspondents send further accounts of the alleged Bulgarian atrocities on the authority of eyewitnesses.
    The Daily Telegraph's Salonika dispatch says that the prosperous City of Seres was entirely destroyed by fire, and 20,000 persons were left without food or shelter. The atrocities committed by the Bulgars pass all imagination. An Armenian eyewitness has arrived at Salonika, half demented from the horrors he was obliged to witness. He affirms that many persons were crucified, hacked to pieces, or burned alive. His servant, under his own eyes, was nailed to a door. Incredible outrages were committed upon all ages, and many died.
    The same correspondent adds that among the Greek soldiers rage and hatred have reached such a pitch that each man would gladly die a thousand deaths for the pleasure of running his bayonet into a Bulgar.
    All the villages of Beliako and Seres are masses of ruins. The Bulgarian Army in retreating from Seres is alleged to have massacred twenty eminent citizens, including the Director of the Oriental Bank and the head master of the gymnasium. Dr. Chrisafi and twenty others are said to have been hideously tortured. The Archbishop of Doiran and twenty other citizens whom the Bulgars took as hostages never reached Seres, but were certainly murdered on the way.
    The Daily Mail's correspondent with the First Servian Army sends the narrative of a Russian cinematograph operator who visited Krivolak, the scene of the most desperate fighting between the Servians and the Bulgarians.
    He says he saw with his own eyes terrible evidence of the way in which the Bulgarians treated the Servian wounded. Several of the latter were crucified. He saw one man whose tongue had been torn out, while two others had been burned, and the charred remains still hung to the stakes to which the victims had been tied. The noses and ears of others had been cut off. The correspondent says he gives the cinematographer's statement because he appears to be a credible witness, but points out that there is no first-hand evidence that the mutilations were inflicted while the Servians were alive.

    LONDON, Monday, July 14.— The Daily Telegraph correspondent with the Greek Army says that the Greeks to date have captured eighty-two guns and 10,000 prisoners.
    A Belgrade dispatch to The Telegraph says that the Servian invasion of Bulgaria has been successful, but was confined to the district between the frontier and the Pirot-Kustendil line. The Servians are advancing and making good progress.

Greeks Have 10,000 Prisoners.
    The Balkan States appear to be again in the melting pot. There is no sign of peace at present. Greece and Servia have declined so far to agree to an armistice. The Turkish Array is advancing by forced marches from Tchatalja and Bulair, apparently with the consent of Greece and Servia, to attempt the recapture of Adrianople and Thrace. Rumania is said to be proceeding to occupy a much larger extent of Bulgarian territory than she previously claimed, and Greece is burning to avenge the Bulgarian massacres, concerning which horrifying details continually appear in the official reports issued from Athens and Salonika. According to these reports ears and fingers of Greek women, still bearing earrings and rings, were found in the pockets of Bulgarian prisoners.
    There is still talk of Russian interference, and it is reported from St. Petersburg that the powers in concert have notified the Sublime Porte that they will not permit military operations beyond the Enos-Midia line fixed by the London conference. But the European concert is slow in moving.
    No fresh fighting is reported, and it appears that the rumors regarding a revolution in Sofia are without foundation.
    The Bulgarian Government accuses Greece of circulating false accounts of Bulgarian atrocities, with a view to preparing the ground for future territorial claims, and expresses itself as willing to submit the whole matter to an international investigation. An active campaign of recrimination regarding which side began the hostilities and of accusations and denials of atrocities is going on between Bulgaria on one side and Servia and. Greece on the other.
    In Bulgarian official circles in London it is announced that an agreement has been reached with Turkey in regard to the Enos-Midia line as a provisional frontier, pending final delimitation by the international commission.

    LONDON, Monday, July 14.— Four Rumanian monitors are blockading Rustchuk, Sivistova, Nikopoli, and Lorn Palanka, according to all Odessa dispatch to The Post. A Bulgarian gunboat and torpedo flotilla have sought refuge at Sebastopol from the Rumanian fleet.

    VIENNA, July 13.— There are persistent reports that the Servians have occupied the Bulgarian town of Kustendil. It is also reported that a force of Rumanians has arrived at Corabia, and is preparing to cross the Danube into Bulgaria, northwest of Plevna.
    A high Austrian military authority attributes the defeat of the Bulgarians to the indecision of the Government's policy. This reacted against the plan of campaign, destroying its efficiency and causing a lack of unity between the Cabinet and the military staff. Contradictory orders resulted, which had a dispiriting influence upon the army.
    Another important cause of the defeat was the shortage of officers and the presence of inexperienced recruits on the firing line.

    SALONIKA. July 13.— Refugees from Seres assert that the Bulgarian police set fire to the town in several places on Thursday. While the fire was raging throughout the city the Bulgarian guns, mounted on the adjacent heights, bombarded houses flying foreign flags, notably the Consulates, which were crowded with fugitives, and poured shrapnel into the crowds of people fleeing from the city.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, July 13.— The Tchatalja and Bulair armies are advancing by forced marches and have already occupied Tchorlu without opposition. The Bulgarians have evacuated Rodesto.
    The greatest military activity prevails here. Troops and artillery and provision convoys are being brought across the Bosporus from Asia Minor. The destruction of villages by the retiring Bulgarians has created a bitter feeling here.
    The Porte is in communication with Belgrade, Athens, and Bucharest, and is said to have received assurances that neither Greece, Servia, nor Rumania will conclude an armistice without consulting Turkey.

Bulgars Report a Victory.
    SOFIA, July 13— A semi-official statement issued to-night announces that the Servians retreated all along the front to-day, pursued by the Bulgarians. The Bulgars captured important positions in the Egri Palanka District. Eight Servian
    officers and 340 men were captured.