AFTER ADRIANOPLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 68, 28 March 1913, Page 5

AFTER ADRIANOPLE.

HEAP OF SMOKING RUINS.

BULGARIANS UNDER FIRE

DISPLAY REM ARK ABLE COURAGE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Vienna, March 27. The general. assault on Adrianople began on Monday, soon after ( midnight. The Concentrated fire , upon the advance works lasted for three hours. The Turks replied energetically, but evidently desired to spare their remaining ammunition. The infantry advanced by the aid of searchlights, and attacked Maslak, the Turks retiring after a fierce defence. At dawn the attack, ceased, to permit the troops to rest. The Bulgarians lost enormously. The Turkish artillery made a brilliant defence. Chukri Pasha wired to Constantinople; “I shall only leave the enemy a heap of smoking ruins.” He kept his word. Berlin, March 27.

Telegrams from Sofia state that, when beginning the final attack,'the Bulgarians were mown down, entire companies being destroyed before they reached* the enemy’s position. A similar fate befel the Turks when the Bulgarians turned the Turkish cannon upon them. The explosions of the magazines increased the carnage. When the military and public buildings were ignited, the city became a sea of flame. Many civilians were killed by the falling

masonry. After two days’ rest, forty thousand Bulgarians will march lor Chataldja. Berlin, March 27. Sir Edward Grey’s speech created an excellent impression. the Cologne Gazette says that Europe owes him thanks for his services to European peace.

FRANTIC REJOICINGS

SCENE IN RUSSIAN DUMA. St. Petersburg, March 27,. There were remarkable scenes in the Duma over the fall of Adrianople. Repeated cheering greeted the President’s announcement. Dr. Daneff, President of the Sobranje, and M. Botcheff, the Bulgarian Minister, were present in the Chamber. The sitting was suspended, and the deputies carried them shoulder high to the Catherine Hall, where congratulatory speeches were delivered. Afterwards, the Duma chaplains celebrated a Te Deum. Sofia, March 27. There is frantic enthusiasm throughout the Balkan. A requiem for the dead and a Te Deum for victory were celebrated to-day. King Ferdinand and the Royal Princes have gone to Adrianople. fall of chataldja. London, March 27. The Bulgarian Legation is informed that Chataldja has been captured after two days’ desperate fighting. Constantinople, March 27. It is reported that Chataldja has been evacuated, and that the Turks are re treating precipitately. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Sofia, March 27. The report of the evacuation of Chataldja is not confirmed.

THE ASSAULT ON ADRIANOPLE

(Received 10.25 a.m.) Sofia, March 27

Details of the assault on Adrianople show that herds of cattle were sent on in front to avert dangers from mines and trenches.

Mail-clad soldiers, provided with bucklers, cut the wire entanglements surrounding the forts, whoso bastioned walls on rocks were forty feet high. These were stormed with bayonets.

The Servians, on the north-west, fought bravely through their task, but did not carry the forts. TWO REGIMENTS BLOWN UP.

It is stated that 'one Servian and one Bulgarian regiment were blown

up ‘ . , The Bulgarians are distributing food to all Adrianoplc’s poor. In chataldja town.

Bulgarians, after a sharp fight, reoccupied Chataldja town.