GREAT BATTLE IN PROGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1586, 1 November 1912, Page 5

GREAT BATTLE IN PROGRESS.

RAIN FORCES .MEETINfi.

BOLGARIAIS :-OUTFLANK TURKISH AiiY.

HEAVY FItHTING .M LULE BURGAS.

Bγ TeheraDh-Preßs AflsodatJon-CoDyrteh> Constantinople, Oetoljeri3o. Nazim Pasha, the Turkish Minister for War, telegraphs that a,great battle has been in progress since yesterday. ( There, are, 150,000 men engaged on both' sides. The Turks are in a favourable position. He also states that , the Bulgarians were repulsed at Viza, 35 miles southeast of Kirk Kilisse, on the main road to Constantinople. The Turks lost right hundred men. . ■ . The Adrianople army sortied westward towards Marash, and forced the.Bulgarian brigade to retreat. . ■'".•. ' . Nazim Pasha's headquarters aw at Cherkeskoi, on the railway, 60 miles from Constantinople. . ' POSITION OP BULGARIAN ARMY. (Hec. November 1, 0.20 a.m.) ■ ■■' Vienna, October 30. The "Reichpost" states that the Bulgarian right wing is ijear tiile Burgas. It was at first repulsed, brit afterwards the ■svhole.army advanced after violent fighting. ' -.- ■ .■ ■ ■ ■;■.■:■.. ' The Bulgarians at Chiftlikkoi, eleven miles south-east of Lule Burgiis, -were driven back in a northerly direction. • The advance of the eastern"group was. delayed: by thickly-wooded country and impassablo iroads.': ■• •' ' ' The Bulgarians' extreme left has marched on Istranja, 45 miles west of Lule Burgas, which is further east than ; tho Turkish extreino right. ' . ■ .■■'' v ; (Eeo.' November 1, 0.20 a.m.) . ' '■ ,'i ■.■■/.' Sofia, October-3-1.. The Bulgarians, after defeating ;the Turks at Lule Burgas, advanced on : Muraldi. : ! The Turks are torturing many. Bulgarian soldiers and civilians , .' . ••■ , ■ TTJKKS LAND IN BULGARIAN .'BEAR.. * (Rec' November 1, 0.20 a.nh) ■ ■• London, October 31. ' ; The "Homing Post" reports.-.that.30,000,' ■Turks'have .landed on the 'Black/Bee. coast of Thracs, with the object of threatening the' Bulgarian flank and rear. ■ TWO DAYS' FIGHTING. Sofia, October 30 ' . There has been two days'fighting. ~ The 'Bulgarians, after. capturing Lule Burgas and district, were victorious over tho principal Turkish ■ forces, /which are now in disorder. MOVEMENT, COAST.' : ■' ■■■.' ■ -.'■ .yienna, October 30. . ; The newspaper "Reichpost" states that ;the Bulgarian--force -is moving towards. Constantinople :by'''way: ! '' ? pi?' Tstranja. (47 imiles westby north-West of Oonstahtt-;. nople), and Derkos .■(!&■'-miles by north of the Turkish cai'M)-

ing Kirk Kilisse, when it waa found that' the population had iled iii terror, and the troops likewise, without there iifl.ee. Order was restored on Sunday;, and the offensive resumed.