The day book. [volume], July 08, 1913, Image 28

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THE BULGAR-SERVIAN WAR
JUST PLAIN SLAUGHTER
Constantinople, July 8. Turkey
will fight. The Sublime Porte today
decided to reoccupy the territory
which was taken over by the Balkan
allies as a result of the London peace
treaty signed in May.
London, July 8. The complete
success of the Bulgarian force which
outflanked the Servian line at Vranja
was claimed in dispatches from Sofia
today.
If these dispatches be true, it
means that the Bulgars have
crumpled up the Servian army as
they claim to have crumpled up the
Greeks at Nigrita.
It is believed that Servia has is
sued her last call, and now is putting
into the field every able-bodied man
in the kingdom between the ages of
18 and 60.
The stories of the losses during the
last ten days' fighting are beyond all
belief. If they be even approximate
ly true, the internecine war of the
Balkan nations will go down into his
tory as the bloodiest that ever oc
curred. Men are falling at the rate
of 10,000 a day.
It is not civilized fighting; it is
slaughter. Apparently, each battle
is the same; the roar of the cannon
at long distance; the menacing hum
of the machine guns; the rattle of
the smaller variety of the same; the
shock of single infantry volleys; and
then a tearing personal encounter in
which rifles are discarded, bayonets
used as daggers and men have be
come beasts.
There is no question of the ferocity
of the Bulgars; they have been badly
treated; then won splendidly and
then their smaller allies turned upon
them and tried to rend them. Bul
garia seeks not only victory, but
vengeance.
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ANOTHER MINE WAR COMING?
Charleston, W. Va., July 8. Sheriff
Bonner Hill has sent reinforcements
to the Ohlney Mining Comp. Condi
tions are critical there. Miners are
encamped above the mine. They are
armed. The mine guards are in am
bush around the plant and they are
armed.
Sheriff Hill held a conference with
Governor Hatfield during the night,
and Hatfield instructed him to make
every effort to handle the situation
himself without applying to the state.
Two miners are reported missing
by Superintendent Davis of the Ohl
ney Co. Probably they contrived to
escape from under the eye of the
mine guards and join their compan
ions on the hill.
"WOLF OF WALLSTREET" TRIES
. TO DEFEND HIS ACTION
Washington, D. C, July 8. David
Lamar, recalled to the stand before
the Senate lobby committee at his
own request, today tried to defend his
action in pledging Democratic lead
ers in House and Senate to J. P.
Morgan & Co:
And his defense was that he just
"played the usual Wall Street game."
He insisted that he had been moved
by only the highest public motives
and that his plan had been to rein
state Edward Lauterbach as Morgan
& Co.'s atorney and to force a gen
eral reform in Wall Street.
The" Wolf of Wall Street was not
quite as wolfish as when he first ap
peared before the committee. He
started out by attempting to slur
Senators Reed and Walsh and imme
diately was called and called hard by
Chairman Overman. Thereafter he
was allowed to make no speeches.
"I am the only villain of Wall
Street," he fairly shouted at one
time, "and all the others are pure!"
Lamar said he had planned the
trap for Lewis Cass Ledyard to bring
Standard Oil, the American Tobacco,
the Steel Trust, and Messrs. Lovett,
Evarts, Cravath and others into the
open where the truth would be
known.
Senators Reed and Walsh baited
Lamar