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Show f ARMIES OF SULTAN I FACE SURE DEFEAT 'felli &alkan Forces Continue to Push Way Toward Con- Bp'"8i stantinople And Meet Only Weak Resistance ?fl From the Scattering Moslem Hosts. 8 H TWELVE THOUSAND TURKS ARE WOUNDED Sail arEI Var Vessels of the Powers Are Hurrying East to -mm Protect Lives of Christians In Mohammedan mm Cities From Defeated Soldiers. ill altK London, Nov. 2. Only two lines of ?3wK forts, both known aB Tchatalja, one to 'QB the northwest of the fortlfned city of Il$OT Adrianople, and the othor stretching; l.3jC acroBs the pcnlnBula outside of Con- ftirtS 'l stantinople, now Btand between Tur- 'SfiS ' koy and the total obliteration of her Mfiv power in Europe. fOn neither of theBe lines of fortH can much reliance be placed in view of what has happened at other places supposed to bo strongly fortified. There seems now to be no escape tvjrt, for the TurkB. The Bulgarians are jfl ; following their successes with a dash H ' that surprises the world. They are ajB now endeavoring to get a fore of fQE troops from Serai between the routes IVM7 of Turkish armies under Nazim ra tSSI' 8na and tne Tchatalja Hues. This JgfJj move would fulfill the two-fold pur- ,M pose of putting an ond to all Turkish 'M resistance and stopping the defeated H ! and maddened soldiery from reaching SI J Constantinople, where their arrival is $ much feared. Sr If the Bulgarians plan succeeds they ?5 are likely to go on to Constantinople. htijuI where they will dictate their terms 11MJ4 of peace. They are not likely, how- 9 ever, to slay in tho capital. There is irM a Bulgarian logend that any nation uWtjE occupying Constantinople is certain to Jigl ne 'n Perpetual trouble with its nelgh- 3 bors. IJVfljk The Turkish troops might have jgG foynd a way of retreat toward the lH. port of Rcdosto on tho Sea of Mar-, SjjHR mora, but this is now occupied by tbci Tf?qL Eiilgailaus jflp .More than I2,00p Turkish -wounded I m? arc roported to have arrived 'Olrjjadyj mi&-. -- ,aL ronstantiuople. Jfc ' IBh' .iranyway'vnear,-nple to JR cup0 itj1'tii?K'tuc.tlon. and.hllo all j SHt the countries of Etropo have sent sur- )KJ gc-;ns to assist In caring for the ."jjrQ wounded, this war will be unparalleled f- for killed and wounded ittftrl Meantime the war vessels of the WS powers are hurrying to the east to mKIr protect the Christians among the W K Turkish population, whose danger, nc- yR cording to most of tho correspondents PSlEJ there, is very real |