The War Proceeds

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 1 November 1912, Page 5

The War Proceeds

ADRIANOPLE IN SLATE OF SIEGE

COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY BULGAHIAN3

FIERCE FIGHTING IN PROGRESS.

. RANKS DISORGANISED. (Received Last Night, 11.35 o'clock.] CONSTANTINOPLE, October 31. Details to hand show that Ivirli Kiliaseh was in a state of panic. Hundreds, when quitting the town, endeavoured to storm the railway station. The" soldiers threatening the officials with rifles. insisted thai trains should be found to convey their to Babaeski. The officials replied that a lino oi single track trains, with reinforce* ments, was expected. Thousands of fugitives are hurrying to Babaeski on foot. Had the Bulgarians known the facts, they might have entered the town unopposed. ' The Turkish trooos have been living for three, days on flour and water, th© field bakeries.having miscarried. A similar situation has occurred at Uskub. , , . At Salonika the Turks are overmobilised and under-officered. The Intelligence Department is inefficient ,aud the commanders are not aware of numbers of the plans. • Military attaches have now gone to the front. MR CHURCHILL SPEAKS. PREPAREDNESS URGED. ' V(Received Last Night, 11.35 o'clock.) LONDON, October 31. The Right Hon. Winstou Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Sheffield 1 in reference to the Balkans situation, said: "We all have our responsibilities in- this matter. Our duty is, as far as we are able, to work for permanent peace in those regions. So long as a loyal and honest spirit, continues to govern the great Powers no problem will arise in the struggle, which can'hot be settled to their common advantage, and the lasting good of the Balkan people, without any extension of the area of conflict. Britain can survey the pa-st without a pang, and the future without a grudge, but must be prepared and' ready for all eventualities. It was good to be patient, circumspect and peace-loving; but that is not enough. We must hold what we have won, and unite our consolidated Empire, in a work to which all parties- in. turn can .contribute." GREEK DESERTERS FROM TURK LSH RANKS. (Received this Morning 12.20 o'clock) ATHENS, October 31. Five hundred Greeks who deserted from the Turkish army have arrived at Athens. The Greeks captured in the Kassani district are in a Turkish field hospital, with four hundred beds. Onefourth of the Turkish wounded have been sent to hospitals, at Constantinople. •

Some columns have reached Skinderkeni, seven miles south-east o.i Adrianople, which is thus entirely surrounded. COMMANDERS DISAGREE. AFTER FALL OF KUMANOVA. (Received October 31, 9 a.m.) • BELGRADE, October 30. The Turks at Kuprili strenuously opposed' the Servians until tho arrival ,ot' Servian cavalry, which aided by two and compelled evacuation. ' artillery, cut the Turkish forces in , Reports from Uskub state that after the fall of Kumanovo the Turkish leaders quarrelled, whereupon General Zekki Pasha ordered a retreat. A few officers, acting on their own responsibility, ordered l resistance. From Kuprili it is stated that the commander of a Turkish Monastir corps was killed by his own officers for ordering further resistance. The Montenegrins reached . Plevlie (in the Sanjak oi' -iovi Bazar) with in half an hour of the Servian occupation. There was a scene of great enthusiasm. The Sanjak luis been completely cleared of Turkish troops. :Groups of Arnauts (Albanians) took refuge in houses at Kumanovo and refused' to- - surrencttpr. All were killed. j (Received October 31., 9-5 a.m.) t;,'General Zumilo's and General Martinovitch'.s columns have junctioned on the partem side of Skutari. TOWARD-S CONSTANTINOPLE. (Received October 31, 9 a.m.) j BERLIN, October 30. , The newspaper It'ichpost states that the Bulgarian force is moving towards Constantinople by way of ( Intra nj a (-17 miles west by north-west ! cf Constantinople), and Derkos (21 miles north-west by north of the j Turkish capital.) !

A REAR MOVEMENT. BY TURKISH FORCES. (Received this Morning 12.20 o'clock") ; LONDON, October 31. The Morning Post reports that thirty thousand Turks have landed on the Black Sea coast at Thrace, with tho object of threatening the Bulgarian plan in • the rear. GREAT BATTLE IN PROGRESS. j MEN ENGAGED. THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND • (Received October 31, 2.30 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, October 31. Nassim Pasha telegraphs that a great battle has been in progress since yesterday. There are 150,000 men I engaged on both sides. The Turks are in a favourable position. He also states that th& Bulgarians were repulsed at Visa, where the Turks lost eight hundred men. | * Tho Adrianoplo army sortied we'st- ! ward towal-ds Marash and forced the Bulgarian brigade to retreat. . Nazim Pasha's headquarters are at Tcherkesskeny. BULGARIAN PROGRESS. j RUSSIAN AVIATOR'S FATE. (Received this Morning 12.20 o'clock) SOFIA, October 31. , The Bulgarians, after defeating the Turks at Lule Bargas, advanced 1 to Muraldi. The Turks tortured many Bulgarian , soldiers and civilians, Turkish shrapnel struck a Russian aviator named x'opoffs while his aero- j piano was hovering over Adrianople, ; causing him to fall into the Turkish lines. v j OVERCROWDED ADRIANOPLE. DESPERATE FIGHTING IN PROGRESS. (Received this Morning, 12.35 o'clock) VlElftsA, October 31. The Reichspost says it is reported, that 100,000 fugitives are within Adviatiople, where there is much overcrowding. The Turkish artillery was unable tri silence the Bulgarian Krupps used' in tho bombarding of the earthworks. Fresh Bulgarian reserves have arrived, and desperate fighting is in progress. The Turks are making daily sorties. ADRIANOPLE INVADED. AFTER VIOLENT FIGHTING. 'Received this Morning, 12.35 o'clock) VIENNA, October 31. The Reichpost states that the Bulgarian right wing when .near Lule Burgas, was at first repulsed. The whole army after ward's- advanced. After violent fighting the Bulgar-. 1 ians, when at Chiflikeni, were driven back in a northerly direction. The advance of the eastern group was delayed by tho thickly-wooded country and impassable road's. Tho extreme left marched to Strandja, which was further east .than the Turkish extreme right.