RETREAT FROM KUPRILI.
TURKISH LEADERS QUARREL, FORCES CUT IN TWO. Belgrade, October SO.. The Turks at Kuprili, in Macedonia, strenuously opposed the Servians until the arrival of Servian cavalry, aided: by ar r tillery, icut the Turkish forces in two and. compelled evacuation. . . ;..' Reports from Usbub state, that after the full of Kumanovo the Turkisli lenders quarrelled, /whereupon: General Zekii Pasha ordered a retreat. .A few officers, ..acting on their own responsibility, order-'-ed resistance. . ' . . ;■ ' From-Kuprili.it.is -.stated that, the *amniaHder- of-'a Turkish- : corps -from Monastir was killed by''his own offioers for ordering further resistance. ■ Groups of Arnauts (Albanians) took 'refuge in houses at Kumanovo and refused to surrender. All were killed. • ' The' Montenegrins ■' reached Plevlie (in. ■ tha Sanjak of Nbyi Bazar) within hai{ an hour of the {Servian■ occupation., There was. a scene of great enthusiasm. Tie Sanjak has been completely cleared of. ' Turkish troops. . ' '.'■.;. ■; ,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1586, 1 November 1912, Page 5
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144RETREAT FROM KUPRILI. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1586, 1 November 1912, Page 5
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