THE BALKAN WAR.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 511, 23 October 1912, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR.

CROSS AND CRESCENT. SEVERE FRONTIER FIGHTING. By Tolci,-nviik.-rpc-!.<s As»oi-i:i.lioii.-- Oop.vnU'Ut London, Monday. News from the Balkans indicates • that the Turks are still being driven i back on ail widen by the invading acmies. Advices from Sofia state that on Friday evening General IvunofT. and the first, army corns occupied the banks of the Maritza. They found the bridge, station, and telegraph office at Mustapha Fauna practically intact. On Saturday they drove the Turks from the forts forming the outer defences of Adrianople. The second army corps, under Genera) Radko Dimltriefr, advancing .".lung fho Tunja Valley, captured Tirnovo, a town north-east of Kirk Kilissc. The third army corps is under General KutinchefT. The Turks in the Razdog district are reported to bo arresting Bulgarian notables and demanding ransoms. They are also asking .£3OO from each village, and are beating hundreds of villagers. It is staled at Sofia the Turkfl of tho Adrianople district are terror stricken, abandoning rifles .".nil howitzers and dying in disorder. TURKISH BRUTALITY. The Reichposl,, Vienna, states retiring Turks have been massacring villagers. One hundred and fifty bodies have been found at Bacevo; a hundred at Railosko; one hundred and fifty at Jakonda. The mutilated corpses amid burning ruins at Mickup, presented a particularly terrible sight. ADRIANOPLE IN DANGER. Constantinople, Tuesday. The Governor of Adrianoplo's proclamation warning inhabitants to be careful of supplies as it is possible the town will be invested, and recommends those who are able to leave tho town. BULGARIAN SUCCESSES. Sofia, Tuesday. Mr Beaumont, the Daily Telegraph's correspondent, states that (en thousand Bulgarians attacked the fortess of Cherin, ten miles south of Mustafa. They stormed the outworks and bayonetted the defenders. The Bulgarians have announced that journalists evading censorship will bo court-martialled. Bulgarian officers and soldiers are forbidden to refer to operations in private loiters. Sixty corrsepondents have gono to Staragagova. WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIGHTING. Cettinge, Tuesday. Fighting at Plava is very severe. Tho Albanians only left when tho town was in ilames. Nino hundred were killed, including women and children who were found dead with weapons still in their hands. BATTLE OF KOSSOVO. Belgrade, Tuesday. The third Servian army advanced to the plain of Kossovo, where it was opposed by forty thousand of tho enemy, chiefly Arnauts, with ten companies of Nizams and four batteries of artillery. Severe fighting followed extending r rotn Raska to Velya Glava and the vicinity of Yenihazar. The losses on both sides were heavy. The Servians operating from the north captured tho block houses round Scienitza and a number of Turkish positions round Kumanova. TURKS FLEE FROM GREEKS. Athens, Tuesday. Tho Turks at Diskata are panic stricken and are fleeing to Scrlidge. The Greeks, pursuing, captured a million cartridges aijd occupied the heights commanding Grumbovo and the heights of Kirovouni in Epaus.