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A DARING FEAT

BY GREEK GUNBOAT. (Received Last Night, 10..15 o'clock.) ATHENS, October 18. The Grecian gunboats passed the Turkish guns within two hundred and forty yards, in a narrow channel between the new fortress at Jirevoza and the coast batteries, and steamed right out without being seen. The officers on the gunboats saw the troops in the Turkish fortresses completing their defences, in the full blaze of electric lights. This daring feat has given the. Greeks the command of the Gulf of Arta, and ensures a supply of stores for the anny at Epirus. Tho Turkish gunboat destroyer Attala is confined at Prevent, where she refuged at fclje outset of the Turko-Italian war. Tho purchase of the Chaosp has been abandoned. THE FIGHTING AT KRANIA. HEAVY LOSSES OF MONTENEGRINS. (Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Octover 18. The Prcmaks,. supported by regulars, have' penetrated Bulgaria for several miles, the Bulgarians retiring t before th-em. | Tho Roumanian steamer Princess j Mario, which was detained at Varna, j has been released. ' The Turkish' losses fit Krania wore seventeen killed and fifty-four wounded. The Montenegrins casualties were five hundred. The Turks captured a gun and a quantity of ammunition, and inflicted heavy losses upon the Montenegrins, who were thrice defeated. ! The Porte lias demanded and secured £3,500,000 deposited in a German

bunk during Adbul Hamid's roign. It will bo devoted to the war fund. The Sultan has granted a'* amnesty to the Yemen robeld, and to Seididris and all his followers. Tho Porte, in a proclamation, invites Turkish soldiers to respect the lives and property of non-combatants and worijon and children. Tho Bulgarians have destroyed t>vo important railway bridges southwards of Philipopolis.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 19 October 1912, Page 5

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A DARING FEAT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 19 October 1912, Page 5

A DARING FEAT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 19 October 1912, Page 5

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