The Balkan War
A FIERCE STRUGGLE
(Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.) :i CETTINJE, October 1-1. The fort at Chipcenik has been practically demolished by tue Montenegrin artillery. General Martinovies reports an engagement below the Chafbotil heights. A fierce struggle took place, the Turks being repulsed, and losing ( three hundred killed and wounded. The Montenegrins made a final charge, over precipitous crags, upon Detchick. Tho charge was so furious that the Turks were unable to disable their guns before retreating. ' They were fired at with their own guns by the Montenegrins. The total Turkish force, in the region of Skutari, is sixteen battalions. The Montenegrins are striving to prevent the Turks from retreating southwards.
TURKISH TROOPS REPULSED
FIRED AT WITH THEIR OWN GUNS
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10711, 15 October 1912, Page 5
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122The Balkan War Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10711, 15 October 1912, Page 5
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