Ferocious Fighting

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 31 October 1912, Page 5

Ferocious Fighting

BRAVERY OF SERVIAN

(Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) LONDON, October 30.

A Renter message reports that the Turks at Kurnanovo, where a sanguinary battle was fought with the Servians, numbered 80,000.

Tho Turks lost ten thousand killed and wounded, and 1 the Servians five hundred killed and two thousand wounded. The latter include Colonel Bowinovjtch, Commander of the Danube Division.

Lieutenant Milich, commanding a .company of infantry, committed suicide with a revolver, after declining to obey an order to retire from an exposed position. Witnessing his ex•implc, the soldiers hurled themselves desperately against the Turkish positions, and annihilated them. Their dash was equal to the bravery shown by the Cavalry, under . King Peter's brother. Prince Absent*. The Crown Prince was frequently in the firing line, and entered the town while thi> battle was in full swing.

•MOSLEMS DECLARE LOYALTY TO SERVIANS. ( Received last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) BELGRADE, October 30. The Arnauts in tho Kossovo and Prishtina districts are resuming their occupations. Moslems' are hastening to declare, their loyalty to the Servians in hundreds. The town is decorated with th'P Servian colours, and filled will women and children with their flocks, who are returning.

THE ALLfEI) FORCES

GREEKS IN ACTION

DES PER ATE FIG HTING. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) ATHENS, October 30. The aliies have 163,000 more men at the front than has hitherto been announced. The Turks killed a Greek Archpriest at .Taniniu Tho Greeks, after a three hours' fight, occupied Exaterini. The Greek left wing, after defeating the Turks, pursued thorn to Nalbankong, capturing the standards of two Turkish battalion.'-, after desperate fighting.

BULGARIANS SUFFER, LOSSES

'Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) SOFIA, October 30. The Turks at North-east Adrianople repeatedly attempted to liecdve the Bulgarians by flying the white flag, and thei/training their guns on the enemy, causing tho Bulgarians considerable losses. The Turks, while, retreating, after a. sortie, abandoned a buttery with ammunition waggons. The Bulgarians seized two depots, containing :jrms and ammunition, and medical stores, between Adrianople and Kirk-Kilisseh.

ANOTHER FEROCIOUS BATTLE

TURKS DRIVEN BACK BY BULGARIANS.

Last Night., 10.30 o'clock.) | SOFIA, October 30. A previous battle has been fought at Knkhana, lasting three days arid two nights. The Bulgarians were greatly outnumbered. but repeated bayonet charges cleared the Turks from a strong position, despite desperate resistance. The Turks at Salonika are short of provisions. The shore batteries have been stripped, and the guns and ammunition sent to the interior. The Turkish troops are being cTnven in bv the allies.

HER.OTC MOSLEMS. FIGHT TO THE LAST. (Received Last Night, 1.30, o'clock.) BERLlN,'October'3o. A Red Cross Society assistant at Kirk Kilisseli, describing the final scene, says that, the Christians amongst tluv defenders of the forts surrendered in troops; but the Moslems fought to the last.

THE WAR FUND,

INSTALMENT FROM BRISBANE.

(Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) BRISBANE, October 30. The Greek ■ residents of Brisbane have cabled £7OO as a first instalment to the War Fund.

RUSSPAN SYMPATHY,

WITH BROTHERS IN BLOOD

(Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) ST. PETERSBURG, October 30. The Prefect of Police has protested' against municipalities voting £IO,OOO for military hospitals in the Balkans. A similar protest, in accordance with orders roceived from St. Petersburg, was made at Moscow, whose municipality is sending four medical detachments, each with fifty beds, to the front. The Novoe Vromyn protests at the efforts to .stifle the Russian, sympathy with 1 "Blood Brothers."

A TURKISH REPORT:

BULGARIANS REPULSED. FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES. (Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, October 30. The departure of foreign military attaches for tho Turkish front has been postponed. .Nazim Pasha reports that two Bulgarian battalions were cut off between Kirkiiisseh and Visa, and sustained hoarylos**

ARMIES STILL AT DEATH GRIPS • - ' l TURKS SUFFER FURTHER LOSSES PROTESTS AGAINST RUSSIAN HELP.

AUSTRIA ATND RUSSIA

HORRORS OF BATTLE

TO RE STARVED OUT,

The report adds that the Bulgarians began an attack along the Ergene at noon, which tlio lurks vigorously repelled. The battle continues with great violence. The Turks are advancing.

UNDERSTANDING REACHED

(Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.N BERLIN, October 150. The Foreign Office states that R : us* sia and' Austria have reached an understanding concerning the further treatment of Balkan questions.

CORPSES est;l) FOR COVER

ITT FX BURNED BY SERVIANS

(Received This Morning, 12.35 o'clock.) BELG lIADK, October 30. During the pursuit of the Turks from Kumanovo io.vards Iskub, the Servians tltvirl'ly battery first mowed whole companies down, the Turks; threw away their rifles find knapsacks. climbed the hillsides, and tried to hide i;i depressions in the ground, behind trees, and everywhere. Merciless shrapnel! shells burst over their heads, strewing the hills am! road* with corpses. Where possible to make a momentarv stand. the Turks, in sen* eh of cover, piled up heaps of dead bodies, jnsing the corpses—friends and foes I alike. . j The Servians jumped upon these human ramparts, and a hand-to-hand fight ensued. The Servians, using pnrafhne, burned the corpses, having, no time to .bury them.

INVESTMENT OF ADRIANOPLE

(Received this- Morning 12.0; o'clock.) ■ LONDON, October 30. The Standard Sofia's correspondent states that the "Bulgarian's have_ decided r o invest and starve Aclrianonlo in order to avoid heavy losses. It has been decided that a force o 60,000 will carry out the investment.