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Show HEAVY LOSSES OF TURKS IN THRACE LONDON, Nov. 15. Fighting has commenced com-menced at Monastir, according to an Uskup dispatch to the Dally Mall. Tho Servian forces marching through Albania Al-bania to the Adriatic are meeting with llttlo opposition, many places being occupied oc-cupied without firing a shot. A Daily Mall dispatch from Constantinople Constanti-nople declares that one of the ministers is authority for saying that 300 deaths from cholera occurred in one- Turkish camp at Iladomkcul "Wednesday. An uncensored Daily News dispatch from Constantinople by way of Constanta Con-stanta says: "The government is flying In the face of providence by bringing cholera -Infected troops from the Adana district in spite-of 'the protests made by the railway rail-way company. They have been sent to Tchatalja where, as elsewhere, tho officers of-ficers mako not tho smallest effort to secure sanitary precautions, even in the camp. "Steamers have been chartered to take 23.000 useless and mutinous soldiers, sol-diers, who aro famishing in Constantinople Constanti-nople back to Anatolia." .'Che., total Turkish losses In Thrace, according to the Constlnoplo correspondent correspon-dent of tho Times, numbers 35,000 klllod and wounded nnd 20,000 mlsclng. The Tchatalja lines are held toy G0,-000 G0,-000 troopH, most of whom are demoralised. demora-lised. At San Stofano and lladonikoul thero are 20,000 first rcForvcs, who present pre-sent a smart appearance, but who have not yet hern engaged. "The Austrian nnd German military preparations In Peru," continue? the correspondent, cor-respondent, "are exciting Interest and a we. Not only ure Krocker's hotel and the Austrian embassy held bv strong guard a landed from the warships, but the flat roof of the German embassy Is admirably protected against nn nero-plnnc nero-plnnc attack by maxim guns nnd a. sandbag cover and another maxim guards the porter's lodge. "Many regard this mllllarv parade with discreet mirth am think tho en-orgy en-orgy would belter be brat owed In measures meas-ures of sanitation against the cholera.'" A Sofia dispatch to the Times caya the Bulrarlans are bringing t."0 Iieavv guns to bear on the Turkish positions on the Tch-italja lines. |