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Show BATTLE IS RAGING NEAR ADRIANOPLE Bulgarians and Turks Fight Hand-to-Hand on Mi Banks of Tjunda River 150,000 Trained Ij Mussulmans to Defend City. . I FIELD COVERED WITH DEM AND DYING Wf -! 1 1 Montenegrin Army Opens Fire on Scutari and PI Will Make Desperate Egort to Capture 1 1 City Face Annihilating Fire of Turks. Mi Constantinople, Oct. 25. Stories of desperate hand-to-hand fighting be-Jjfj" be-Jjfj" tween the Bulgarians and the Turks jfj ar6 told in newspaper dispatches from jli Adriandple. Great losses wore sus-jj sus-jj p tained by both armies In thc'bnttles U l around that city on Tuesriav and tlw Wednesday. f Bayonets were used freely In the fight for the possession of the banks of the Tjunda river, and hundrodo QJ) M Were killed or wounded. m S Eight battalions of Bulgarians that attacked the villagc,,of Marras yester-m yester-m rlaj were repulsed with heav losses. g The Turks have 15,000 of their finest 1 I troops on (he line Btretching from S 5 Kirk-KIlessch to Adrianople. which 1 5 latter city is garrisoned by 00,000 men. 4 Another 60,000 men guard the line j ft from Adrainople back to Lulo Bur- J:!, Abdullah Pasha, -the commander In J i, chief of the Turkish forces, some time y(i ago declared ihat the Turkish troops 2 J' it hie disposal were sufficient, and gV since the great stream of troops has lr ucen directed toward Saloalki. 5S; Communication with Adrianople is jil5i 5l"l working normally and no serl-p, serl-p, ous attack on the defenses or that it? town is yet reported by the Turkish ,11 commander. IRf Many Are Fleeing. jtf Fugitives frstu Kirk-KJlesseh, most Bj of them Christians are being brought f o Constantinople by train. I On the other side of the peninsula. 7ekki Pasha, with an army of 30,000 Turks, is reported to haTe attacked tho Servian army north of Kuma-.nova, Kuma-.nova, justas-a-argo-force''edBulga rlans was about to effect o juncture "with it The Servians found the fdur dMeions of thoir troops broken up and flc1 In confusion back across the frontier, leaving a battery of artillery artil-lery and a general's flag behind them. The Turks took many prisoners and found n large number of dead and wounded on the field Zekki Pasha then turned his attention atten-tion to the Bulgarians, whom he attacked at-tacked and routed, driving them also back across the frontier with tho loss of four of their field guns. A dispatch from LJskup says that civilians ci-vilians who aro able to leae that town are departing toward the south It Is announced today that the foreign for-eign military attaches here are to be permitted to leave for tho front to- j morrow. The Ottoman government I has notified the various embassies' that reports of their military attaches I Bhnuld be made in French, and a aim- t ilar request has been made In the caso of war correspondents, but it is not likely that this can be carried out. Sofia, Oct 26. "If the powers sincerely sin-cerely desire to pacify the Balkans. I peace can soon be obtained," said Premier Gouchoff of Bulgaria in an interview this morning. He continued: contin-ued: mjl "The best friends of Turkey now aie those who advise her not to prolong i! the hopelcsa struggle. The sooner the Sf ' Turks submit the better it will be for -v I Ihem and for humanity. w "All friends of mankind must dep-"tf dep-"tf recate the mlschievious talk that this jtf war is one of extermination. The Bal-!; Bal-!; kan states have no intention of ex-2 ex-2 ' ' terminating the Turkish people f' "The significance of tJie fall of i L the Turkish stronghold of Klrk-Kll-'J i easeh lies In the fact that the Turks j had gathered thero the best troops In j j iljcir arrn' and their best generals ft r If they have failed to hold this stroug-tf, stroug-tf, l hold they will scarcely be able to re-'ja re-'ja ; Bist further south." tj Scutari Is Surrounded. I ti R'eka, Montenegro, Oct. 25 The i yi Montenegrin armv has succeeded in F surrounding Scutari Vesterday nft- Rf ernooii the Montenegrin artlller op- W enedflre on the town The Mon tenegrin infantry then made a des-perato des-perato attack on the town, but encountering en-countering 2n annihilating fire from tho Turkish artillery, the attackers were compelled to retire to their former for-mer positions. The Montenegrins immediately began be-gan preparations for a renewal of the attack -which under cover of artillery fire was to be made ou the city from three sides. At Taikosch tho occupation of the town was effected after a bombardment. bombard-ment. Loudon, OcL 25. The Bulgarian and Greek armies have carried out successfully their part of the first stago of the war waged by the Balkan states against .Turkey bv the capture of KIrk-Killsseh and tho" Turkish base in the town of Servla. Their allies, Montenegro and er ia, are now working desperately to do their share by overcoming tho Turkish posts at Scutari and Kumauova, which latter Is tho kej to linkup. It is said that the Bulgarians expected ex-pected Klrk-Kilisseh to hold out longer and Its speedy fall is considered consid-ered a great achievement. The victors vic-tors in the great battle aro now confident con-fident of their ability to cut the communication com-munication between Adrlanoplo and Constantinople. The capture of Adrianople, in tho opinion of military experts, will bo difficult. Its forts are thoroughly np to date and are connected by an underground motor railway line. .j. .w . , Bulgarians captured " man v guns, much ammunition and food at Kirk-I Kili8seh. Particulars as to the num- ber of prisoners of war have not been given out Even after the fire of the Bulgarians Bulgar-ians finnlly overcame the fortress, fierce fighting took place in the streets, said a special dispatch from Stara Zagora today. Tho Turks declare the evacuation of Klrk-Kilisseh was a "strategical j retirement," a phrase which became familiar during the Russian retreat In Manchuria. They still have a big . army at Adrianople and along the line to Constantinople. i A dispatch to Lloyds from Bursas, i tho Bulgarian port on the Black Sea, says tho Turkish fleet Is blockading tho bay. . no |