FIGHTING IN FIVE CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1577, 22 October 1912, Page 5

FIGHTING IN FIVE CENTRES.

TURKISH FORCES MASSING.

GREEKS REPULSE SULTAN'S TROOPS ON THE FRONTIER.

BULGARIAN ADVANCE CONTINUES.

By MceraDh—Press Association—CoD7rleh»

(Rec. October 21, 11.40 p.m.)

London, October 21. The Constantinople correspondent of "The Times" states that 700,000 Turks will be with the colours at the end of October. Twelve thousand men are passing over the European railway daily from Constantinople, irrespective of the infantry dispatched by marching routes. . Bulgaria has given Turkey an unexpected ten days' breathing space, enabling; the Turkish General Staff to surprise European observers. The Salonika correspondent of "The -Times" estimates that the Turkish Macedonian; army has a strength of 170,000. The number is made up as follows:— Hassin Tahsin has 30,000 men defending the Greek frontier. Ali Nabir Pasha has 40,000 on the Struma Hiyer, which flows from Buijaria to the Aegean/about 100 miles oast of Uskub River. Zeki Pasha, with 100,000 men, is be- . tween Kuprili and Uskub. The figures are being rapidly augmented fay the arrival of reserves from Asia Minor, The fortnight's delay is likely io cost the allies dear. Zeki Pasha is expected to fight his way to Sofia via Egri-Palanka, and will be assisted by 40,000 Albanian Irregulars. • The Commissariat of the western army is having difficulty in consequence of the failure.of the harvest, The situation In the Macedonian villages is pitiful. ' ' BULGARIAN INVADERS. KIRK KILISSE FORTRESS SURROUNDED. KING WATCHES THE FIGHTING. Sofia, October 20. The Turkish fortress of Kirk Kilisse has been surrounded since Saturday by Bulgarians. The fortress lies t\v«nty-two miles south of the, Bulgarian border, and is on a main road into Constantinople, which avoids Adrianople.

King Ferdinand- and the Royal Princes and their suites went in motor-cars to a hill overlooking the scene of battle on the Adrianople railwny.-and with field glasses watched the Bulgarian troops occupying tfcf fortifications of Mustafa Pasha ono after another.

The King, meeting the first of the wounded men, decorated them. He afterwards visited the headquarters of the first army at Tirnovo and Seimenli, and then returned to Vara Saghra.

Ono hundred and seventy Turkish prisoners \vero taken at Mustafa.

Tho Third Bulgarian Army ia advancing along the Valley of the.Ardn, a river which flows into tho Maritza at; Adrianople. • . • . The Bulgarians captured Mchoza at the point of the bayonet. Kurtkale is 2300 ft. above the sea. It commands Hie Mantra and Arda Valleys. Sandansky, a brigand chief, is securing recruits daily in tho mountainous district of Prin. Hβ has already armed. 3000 peasants with Mannlieher rifles. TURKISH VERSION. Constantinople, October 20. Official accounts of the Bulgarian movement state that on Friday the Bulgarians attacked an inferior body of Turks at KM Jnali, and that, after several hours' fighting, tho Bulgarians were repulsed with serious loss, On Saturday tho Turks counter-attacked, and seised the Harmatitopo 'Mountain, an important strategic position. 5 GREEKS ENCAGE TURKS. A BATTLE AT ELASSONA. I SULTAN'S TROOPS RETREAT. (Rec. October 21, 10.10 p.m.) Athens, October 21. Six thousand Turks with sevea siege guns are on the heights behind Elassona, near the Greek frontier. Five Greek divisions have engaged in a preliminary ortillery duel with their new Schneider gims, and great havoc was wrought. At two o'clock the Crown Prince of Greece ordered tho first division to charge with the bayonet. The Turks made a desperate resistance, but the Greek cavalry completed their discomfiture. In the meanwhile tlie second division was clearing the hills to the cast, rnd threatening to cut off the Turkish retreat. The Turks withdrew by the Servia road, leaving eighty prisoners and seven guns. The Crown Prince's eldest son received his baptism fire. The Turks retreated through stone gates into a heavily fortified defile. BLOCKADE ON THE ADRIATIC. Athens, October 20. The troops commanded by tho Crown Prince of Greece, after four hours' fighting, dislodged the Turks from Elassona. The troops showed groat dash. Two battalions and two batteries have occupied tho heights at Grimbooa, Epirus. Greece has announced a blockade of the Adriatic between Provesa and Corfu. ) ■ RESERVISTS RETURNING. GREEK FUND RAISED. Athens, October 20. Tho Pan-Hellenic Union has collected half a million drachnine to enable the transportation of 6600 American reservists, who are too poor to return othe'rwise. Two thousand nrc paying their own fares. I Vancouver, October 20. Hundreds of Greek and Montenegrin ri'Servisht nre leaving the United States and Canada to participate in tho war. Largo sums have been raised in their native countries to aid their return. Cairo, October 20. ' Ten thousand Greek reservists and volunteers havo left Egypt for the Piraeus.