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Show iRIOPLE FALLS BEF0REJULGAR3 TURKS L08E LAST LINE OP Ob FENSE3 AND OPPONENTS NOW HAVE CLEAR SAILING. attle Lasted Two Day and H and-to-Hand Struggle Ensued Before Attacking At-tacking Army Beat Down the Desperate Defenders. London. The Turks have been driven In disorder from the TehataIJa forts and the Bulgarians now have practically a clear road Into Constantinople. Constan-tinople. Sofia dispatches Thursday night convey this history-making news. Some of the mot severe fighting of the war attended this final defeat of the Turkish troops. The battle lasted for two days. A hand to-hand struggle strug-gle ensued before the Bulgarians beat down the desperate defender and poured through breaches in the defense de-fense made by their artillery. Then the Turks broke and fled. They are row reported to be In confused and disorganized retreat upon the capital. Panic has broken out In Constantinople. Constanti-nople. At the demand of the foreign embassadors, lntrenrhmenta are being thrown up at Ban Stefano and Klat-kane Klat-kane to chock the mob of soldiers who are fleeing toward the city. So threatening has the situation become be-come that the powers are considering the advisability of forcing the Dardanelles Dar-danelles with their waiting fleets so that the 6.000 men on these ships will be available for landing when the expected ex-pected sacking of the city begins. In this event reinforcements from the Russian fleet in the Black sea will also be called upon to assist In saving sav-ing life and property. Before the Bulgarians forced the TehataIJa forts half a dozen villages In the vicinity of this last Hue of defense de-fense were occupied by them. The dispatches eay that the Turk fought with fanatical fury aa If the eye of Allah was upon them In their last defense of the holy city of Mo-hammed. Mo-hammed. Acta of unparalleled bravery brav-ery were displayed on both sides. The Bulgarians were repeatedly forced back by the army, which had already suffered a series of crushing defeats. The losses sustained toy both artnlea will mount into the thousands. |