FIGHTING IN MACEDONIA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 26 October 1912, Page 5

FIGHTING IN MACEDONIA.

SERVIAN ARMY ADVANCING. xBATTEBIES SILENCED. Belgrade, October 24. A portion of the Servian Army has entered Kunianovo, near Uskub, in Macedonia, after annihilating the Turkish batteries. A DESPERATE ENGAGEMENT. London, October 24. Reports have been received that desperflto fighting between tbo Servians and tho Turks is proceeding at ICumanovo, 1G miles north-east of Uskub. Both, sides claim victories. Great slaughter occurred during tho fighting at the town of Novi Bazar, which is reported to have fallen to tho Servians. TURKISH VICTORY CLAIMED. Constantinople, October 24. Mr. E. Ashmead-Bartlett, the "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent, states that Zeki Pasha, with. 30,000 men, routed four divisions of Servians north of ICumanovo. HARD PRESSED BY CREEKS. TURKISH FORCE OF 22,000 MEN HEMMEO IN. OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTH. (Rec. Octol>er 25, V.lb p.m.) Athens, October 25. i T\\-M\ty-lv,'o thousand Turks under | fc Bcj <S Rvra. L'osfus.l have been driven | from Serfijo, and are, now liaised an the east by tbo cliffs of Mount Para; on the west by tbo icy torrent of the Haliakmon River, where the Greek Highlanders hold tho forts; and south and south-west by tho victorious Greeks. ( . IN THE MOUNTAINS. BULGARIAN ADVANCE IN MACEDONIA. Sofia, October 25. Tho Bulgarians captured two guns at Mehomia (or Razlog), a village in Turkey on the head-waters of the river Mesta, 12 miles south of tho Bulgarian, frontier. The newspaper correspondents nt Eski Saghra, Bulga. - io, state that tho districts of Mehomia and Djimiaia Bnla, Turkey, are entirely in the hands of the Bulgarians, a number of whom have been detached for the purpose of repelling a fur- j ther Turkish attack on Black Sea ports. London, October 24. Tho Bulgarian .Legation hero states that five thousand Macedonians have taken refuge in Bulgaria, alleging massacres and burnings by the Turks. THE SMYRNA DISASTER, SHORT SHRIFT FOR TRAITORS. London, October 24. The disaster at Ephcsus, in Asia Minor, to the Smyrna-bound train, which resulted in the killing of two hundred Turkish soldiers and injury to two hundred others, is now attributed to Macedonian emissaries sent to Asia Minor to impedo the dispatch of Asiatic troops to the front. A Bed Cross hospital nurse was shot by_ tho Bulgarians for selling information to the Turks. A Government official who gave a receipt for forty tons of ehceso when he had only bought thirty, was also shot. GERMAN SYMPATHY. SIDING STRONGLY WITH TURKS. London, October 24. The "Pall Mall Gazette's" Berlin correspondent states that German opinion strongly sides with the Turks, and views the Balkan allies as a parcel of bandits instigated by Russia, while England is credited with playing for Crete, or at least Suda Bay, in the north of Crete, BULGARIAN POWDER STOPPED. Vienna, October 24. It is reported that tho delivery of twenty-eight truck-loads of powder for Bulgaria has been stopped. TURKISH DUTIES RAISED. Constantinople, October 24. The Porte has raised the import duties to 14 per cent.