THE WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10714, 25 October 1912, Page 5

THE WAR.

CABLE NEWS I

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TURKISH REV ERSES. HEAVY LOSSES. INFLICTED BY GREEKS. (Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.) ATHENS, October 24. Twenty thousand Turks, with six t batteries are entrenched at Sarantaporos. They put Tip a stubborn resistance on the morning of Tuesday, and tho fight was continued in the moonlight. During the night a flying squadron j of the Greek third and fourth divisions performed a flanking movement on the Turkish left. Daylight revealed their plan. ■ The Turks then fled precipitably, leaving a quantity of baggage behind. Tho Greeks hotly pursued them through ■•the defiles till Wednesday evening, when they occupied Serfiji and also tho bridge over the -Halikmon River, and are threatening the Turkish retreat. Before abandoning Serfiji the Turks i massacred seventy Greek priests. j The Greeks advanced to headquarters; and the troops are in the highest spirits. The Crown Prince reports that twen-ty-two guns were captured, and much [ ammunition and transport. The Turkish army has been scattejled, and the Greek pursuit' continues. Reports states that tho Turks lost j heavily. Many prisoners were taken including a lieut.-colonel. Two battalions at Evzones. under j Lieut-Colonel 'Constantopulos attackled two battalions near Vlakholivadon, j and destroyed them. I I FOG AND RAIN. INTERFERES WITH BOMBARDMENT. (Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.) / October 24. . Fog and heavy rain interfered with the bombardment of Tarabosch. IMPREGNABLE POSITION. CANNONADING RESU.LTLESS, (Received Last Night, iO o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, October 34. General Essad's position at Scutari ip. considered impregnable. Tho Montenegrins are cannonading the town of Tarabosch without result. The Turkish artillery dismounted three Montenegirn field batteries. SEVERE FIGHTING. > LAWS OF HUMANITY. INFRACTION BY THE TURKS. (Received October 24, 9 a.m.) BELGRADE, October 23. It is officially stated that there has been severe fighting round the town of Novi Bazar, where the Servians occupy commanding heights. The Turks at Kumanovo destroyed the chief bridge and many smaller o"cs on the Maritza River. They also destroyed the railway which Servian sappers repaired. The Second Sen"ian Army has oc- i cupied Straeniea; half May between Egri Palanka and Kumanovo. Servian wounded state that the Turkish guns and ammunition are far - inferior to the Servian. It is significant that none of the Servians were wounded by artillery fire. . The charge is made that the Turks are not observing the Genoa Convention, and have been guilty of other infractions of the laws of humanity. Most of the bullet wounds are serum*. . owing- to the Albanians using 450 Martini bullets. •The Servians ea'p faired Pi'isthinn (Kossovo) after hard fighting. The column which occupied Egri Palanka (32 miles south-east by south of Vrania) divided. One occupied Kocliana (50 miles east by south of Uskub) and the other Knitovo (38 miles east by north of Uskub). GREEKS IN ACTION. ISLAND OF CASTRO OCCUPIED. i (Received October 24. 9,10 a.m.) ATHENS. October 23. Five hundred Greeks have occupied Castro, on the west side, of the Turkish island of Lemni, in the Aegean iSea, capturing three officers and forty-two men. This enables tho Greeks to cut the Salonika cable, and forces Macedonia to depend on wireless telegraph. Tho impetuosity of the Greek centre at Elassona did not give the Evzones (highbinders) time to turn the Turkish flank, and caused the failure to capture three thousand Turks. The Crown Prince's /horse was shot under -Jiim. General DanghVs army-, after a forced march, at midnight on Monday attacked the defiles of tho Sarantapors River. There was vigorous resistance fro mthe Turks, who are now withdrawing to Serfiji, 42 miles northwest by north of Larissa. The result is unknown.

ALONG THE WHOLE FRONT. BULGARIAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. A TUJIKfSH FORCE ANNIHILATED. <Recwred October 24, !J.5 a.m.) .SOFIA, October 23. It is officially: announced that thoro is .fighting to-day along the whole front. Tho Bulgarian* reached tho Arda, redoubt, westward of Adrianopl«. Th« Turks fled in disorder, tearing * hundred dead, Soreral advanced fMwßjOß'i j&wtkward of Adrian opl« fiU'iOMg

the Turks fleeing precipitately, and leaving many killed behind. When the fighting was at the heaviest in the north-east, a liirkish force soitied a'nd was annihilated. Starting from Mustafa Pasha an aeroplane made a flight in the direction of Adrianople. Turkish outposts fai'ed to hit it, and it made half an hour's reconnaissance and returned to •al'ety. . , Bulgarian troops -have occupied Vasiliko, in the province of Kirk Ki[issoh, and 30 milo-s south-east.' by wuth of Bulgars, and arc advancing 3,10ng tho coast towards' Visa. BOMBARDMENT OF PREVEZA, TURKISH FLEET PREPARING FOR A RAID. (Received October. 2-1, 9.15 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, October 23. Greek troops have readied Kate•ina, in the Gulf of Salonika, with the ibject of cutting off the Turks rv.akng for Serii.ji. Other reports state ;hat the Greeks are bombarding Pre•e;;a, at the entrance to the Gulf of Vrta, and that the Turkish fleet is 'retiring to raid the Aegean Sea. WAR CORRESPONDENTS' DILEMMA. STRICT CENSORSHIP. BRITISH STEAMER. SEIZED. (Received October 24, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 23.

Strict censorship prevents reliable information regarding the progress of tin* war. The official statements of both sides invariably claim victory. Eighty correspondents are held up at the Bulgarian headquarters at Stnra Zagora, 45 miles south of .1 irnoro. where only an echo of tho war is I.card. TRENCH PREMIER'S OBJECT. 'Received October 24 , 9.22 a.m.) PARIS, October 23. 7he newspapers state that M. Poincaw.'the Prime Minister; is directing diplomatic negotiations with the object of intervention by the Powers m liie Balkans after decisive operation.-, have occurred. MR MAST ICR MAN EXPLAINS. ("Received October 24, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON. October 23. Mr C. F. Masterton, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, replying to a qtiCftt'on in the House of Commons viid his speech had been distorted. l Te bad carefully emphasised Britain's strict neutrality. (In hi.s speech at Bethnal Green, Mr Ma,stcrton was reported to have said tiiat if Britain had another opputunity of intervention she mint not, as In .1878, put her money on the ttiong horse.)

NOV!' BAZAR CAPTURED. AFTER STUBBORN FIGHTIXG. (Received October 2-1, 1.11 p.m.) BELGRADE, October 23. An official statement has been made th.it the Servian third army had captured Xovi Bazar, after stubborn lighting. CAPTURE OF XOVI BAZAR, THREE DAYS DES.PERATE EIOHTTNG. (Received This Morning. 12.0 o'clock,''. BELGRADE, October 24. General Janovics has secured Ncm Bazar after three days desperate fighting. Th» Turks are holding; a. strongly fortified position. REPLENISHING WAR CHESTS. The Committee of the National Bank brought £3.200,000 to Nisch, in cash, for the iriw chest. A -further £BOO.OOO will h* brought to-day. T?i» moTHiy is kept is ax ?l)a'n«fo*8(I mosqu#.