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Show (DESCRIBES CRUSHING OF TURKISH ARMY & & di 1EYEWITNESS TELLS THRILLING STORY , , Bulgarian Infantry Crouching- for Rush on Enemy. 1 j Bulgarian Bayonet' Charges j Delivered With Great-Fury ! on Bewildered Foe." j . ' ' VIENNA. Nov. 2. Thc Rclchspost llile morning prints a ptory arn'l by Its correspondent with the Bulgarian army, Lieutenant Wagoner. Wag-oner. -It Is dated from the Dul-sarlan Dul-sarlan bcudquarteiH Thursday .-.venln? and jjnys: 'I have Just returned wltli a tmln of wounded uftr IiavIii? spoiu t,l)i-ee tj.ji.vs at thr front. I'or three days andintht :l hao not boon out of my clothes. My poor hoive could not move unothor step horai-Ho of rtsliauKtion. Tho preal ami final battle-fitLorcfl the - decisive phaap Thiuvday mornins 1umi the JiiiUarlan lu'l wing at L:urnavhjtar took-: the ofr .'iJvc with irtlplity lijijictiio.' ljliansuriumphf" '' "Tli1 prfliule lo the final crash of arms Tvan ;i niurdorou.M openlupr ensftyemcnt which ltit Mon'df.y resulted cry favor? biy for tho Laila:ian, capueinhy on the rlht win? at lml Hursas. "On the left v.lnp wliens the l!ularian offensive started the Turk. b Making the offenlvf from licral by way or Visa against the Unitarian left winp. had attempted at-tempted to meet the danger thrcatvninu ; their , lino, of retreat owln? to the r.til-rriun r.til-rriun oJvnuce by way of Serai to Cha-i Cha-i tnl'Jja. The Turks also had auocceded In drhlns back the advance body i of Uul-j Uul-j arlanK beyond Karnsedcras and Duruar- Turks Run Down. "Turjtduy . mnrnitnr v. hen the mighty' Lbiiil.ti counter attack was delivered auIiiHt the xl?bt wins from a line running run-ning from t.Vknp to HadJU'akll and the hf'lshts of -MonislIrdaRh, the Turks, although al-though their front ranks were fairly run down, succeeded In xutalnln.q thc fight by continually bringing; up reservca. "Itit tor i"oro,st llshtlnrr rayed throughout the day. during which thc 'Turkish main body lay. degenerated into . HmsclcH niasHc.s without consistency or power of IftKhtinK. .. Big Guns Crush Turk. 'At the .same time the urarlati 'right 1'h'Ba uWckcd M he ; TurklHi r po?Il fouHn t l.ule Ituras .from "ristcr-Uat'it and Venf-' Venf-' kin. ami di;ovc,thc Tnvks from their, .fov-tllicd .fov-tllicd posHlotm) on. the Tolandoe. Adjvuli-dore Adjvuli-dore and lCi ken1 - rlv'cr . back on Inilo Hurgas. , The' 'Dulsarlan . infantry y:ia Mplsn'dldly ' support cd by artillery, which : at 'critical' moments succeeded. in hot dint; down. I lc Turk by an annihilating IJr'e "SVItii'thfl- help ; or -the' gun's mo5tv'o: tljf! TtirkLdV positions wore, taken by bayonet, a-saulte. ?ome of them, lfbw-cver. lfbw-cver. w(re atoiincd and taken without aijy picliminary action or artillery support. sup-port. - . . Use.;; Bayonet Well. ; Thj ;ihHliof the nulgariun Infanliy was., unparalleled, .und. like the tactical achlcveinciits resulting " fro'mT it. 8iir-piis-acd. nil ?thnt could Abo'. blleveil po.iejj ble.- Without r the lenta. concision lo sci-.rplus f(f uiodcni. taclfcM. it applied it battle nrjiV 'Now. Tor tin: knife.'' to condition;? condi-tion;? ofAtrVJafltj ;? (li:ti is- u,' unv. to ita lactic?. ' -"".",'. "t'our 'iftilirtred' ff' and atill faitbcr I from thsj'cneniy'x Itnoj whole regiments jroiOiho o;ie iiihu and iiurled-thomsclrcs in one olhl "eburilng ipaia on the onemy without hultlnsr. sHil .Hrins ;md deHidain-al! deHidain-al! covt:f. Their offfecra ivrry powerless againr.t this burning frensy to set at tho Turk wUh.-the. kniTe or bayonet. All attempts at-tempts to hold the troops In leash were fnililcop. One .regiment hurled It3df on the, oncmy on the mere order of a. .er-Kcant. .er-Kcant. totaJly disregard Ins lla officers' ovdeiK to halt and lie down. Turks Hold Out. "Tuesday's Jlerce engiise-ionta had resulted re-sulted lucccidfully for thrs Hulgarlans both at .V.unarhlaar and Lulo Uurgas, yet they 'had Htruck 110 decisive blo-, for thes Turlui bad brought up the whole of thejlr rcHcrvcu and had held their advance in chick. "Lr! W'wiin'rdio morning Jttont; (Continued on Tagc Two.) EYEWITNESS TELLS OF TURKISH DEFEAT (Continued from Page One.) Bulgarian force!' were bioiight by-forced marches; from Adrianople and tcnewod tbe attempt 10 break through the renter Of the Turk's position. The Bulgarian attack fell partly on the Turkish ttoops drawn un in the forc.t region south of Kirk Killiscl) and on the Viva load and partly on the entrenched pohllluiiH noilh-west noilh-west of Lul". L'Mrjt.HS Roll Up Turk Wing. "After heavy fonat lighting and continually con-tinually repeated rourdernus bayonet uses us-es ults, l lie Bulgarians succeeded bv noon In breaking through the Turkish position and In co-operation with an attack delivered de-livered simultaneously at Uulc Burgas In rolling up the whole Turkish wing. "Hole In the. early afternoon began a. gineial retreat on tin: line :it Uulc Burgas mid Dtdcrkenl. along the railway mid In. the direction of Tchorlu. The BnJ. garlans Immediately took up tho pursuit apd continued to press the enemj with oxtiaordiriarv energy throughout the n'gbl. tiler result being tlut the Turkish retreat degenerated into wild flight and 011 this wing tho Turks became, totally dispersed. Meanwhile on Iholr own left wing south of Bunarhlssnr the Bulgarians had completely enveloped the Turk? from the northeast. Completely Routed. 'When dawn broke today (Tbuivday) a decislvi; attack upon the right flank of the Turks was delivered from the line at Urun. Belli and Vtm. Heavily shaken by previous fjehllng. the. Turks were unable to withstand the Bulgarian overwhelming flank attack, and abandoned their line of retreat through Sural. Almost totally disbanded, the TurklBh masses retired in disorder through Entfarl, directly south of Tohorlu. "Here also (he Bulgarian pursued the enemy with parallel and continual outflanking' out-flanking' movements along the Turks' msin Hue of communication through Serai. Tarkonl and Tcherkesskcnl. find sought to cut tie enemy's retreat to the Tchalja llnep "The Turkish looses are enormous. Their line of retreat la traceable by a long trail of discarded equipment and, sad to vay, also by burning villages and the bodies of mawicred Clirinlians. "The Bulgarians captured guns and many thousands of rifles." |
