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Show SULTAN IS DEFEATED HIS TROOPS GIVEN A SOUND THRA8HINQ BY INSURGENTS. Fierce Battle Which Raged Over Six Hours, In Which Turks Are Repulsed Re-pulsed With Heavy Losses. A florco battlo Is reported to havo occurred In tho neighborhood of Monastic Mon-astic Thrco Turkish battalions attacked at-tacked 1,000 insurgents, and after tho fight had raged for six hours tho Turks woro repulsed with tho loss of 210 killed and wounded. Tho insurgent loss Is not given. Reports received at Sofia, Uulgarla, from Constantinople and bollovcd to bo nuthcntlc, confirm tho previous stntcmcntH to tho effect that when tho Turks recaptured Krushovo thoy slaughtered tho entire Chrlstlnn population popu-lation without oxccptlon, nnd it is pointed out that among thoso killed wcro tho employees of tbo government tobacco establishment, which woro under Kurapcan control, ns tho proceeds pro-ceeds from theso establishments woro assigned to tho sorvico of tbo Turkish dobt. |
