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Show U FEARFUL BATTLE RAGES. COlili Viennu, Nov. 2. A fearful battle da the most sanguinary tl'.e Bulgarian Hi army has hud to sustain before Ardl- V anople, Is raging today near the bridge over the Marltza river at .Maras, wires jjj 'ho Delchspost'B correspondent with j ' the Bulcarlans. 5 l The Turks are displacing oxtraor- J5l dinary stubborness, canlinually mo- ; ing up fresh reserves and hastenlu? i : them into the fight The Bulgarians , are showing a complete contempt for i ; death. London, Nov. 2. Graphic descriptions descrip-tions pf the week-long battle between the Turkish and Bulgarhin arrni"3 in the southeastern corner of the Balkan peninsula are leaching London today. ; , It would appear that between 100,000 I and 500,000 are engaged in the desper- ; ate struggle, which, accordiug to some ' authorities, is still in progiess ' In their attack on Lule Burgas the Bulgarians found Torgut Shefket Pa- ' sha wlh Irs troops In position on the felopr& behind the town The Bulga-r-Jf' , broucht up six batteries and ) - led the position on Monday cen- ; "a. They then cairled out an iufau-(rj iufau-(rj attack which was unsuccessful. 0 : On TUefday afternoon It became cv- IJf . ident to the Turkish commander that U the Bulgarians were pushing up mass- II - es of reinforcements to the firing ' line to givo weight to their attacks. . Tho Turkish advance line fell back : In admirable order to Torgut Shof- 5 ket Pasha's main position on the left, jjj ' guaiding the iron rallwa bridge over the Itlver Erkene. Close battle was begun between tho Qj J opposing forces at dawn on Wcdnes- 1 day and raged with equal fierceness J? I along the whole front for a dlsta'ice 5 a of 20 miles No description of the g " later stages of the battle has come I l through, but reports, from Sofia ns-M ns-M fcert that the Bulgurlaps carried cv- erythlng bofore them. W 1 Further dispatches Horn Sofia say II the Turkish troops offered an obatl- ijg nate resistunce The conflicts con- 1 tlnued until lato on Wednesday night I 1 vlth waverings. Eventually, howoer, hj , the Turks gave wa all along the line, the Bulgarians capturing the I railway station at Muradi, thus com- I r , manding the railway line to Galonikl. I vhlch is now isolated, jj1 ' Day and Night. I t ; Constantinople, Nov. 1, Whatever ' the Issue of tho terrible battle now I ( raging on the western slopes of tho I ' Istrandla mountains in Thrace, it nn- doubtedly will be reckoned among the world's great struggles. Almost uninterruptedly for four days and thrco nights tho battle has proceeded, the moon having afforded afford-ed sufficient light at night for the armies to continue their fierco onslaughts on-slaughts Turk and Bulgarians arc locked In a grapple which will be bfflroken only by the decisivo defeat of one or the other The dearth of news from the front Wednesday and yesterday had given rise to a feollng or despondency and sensational rumors ru-mors of Turkish reverses gained currency. 'Today official reports proved there rumors tp be unfounded. Telegrams fiom various sources' gave favorable accounts of the military situation and the troops commanded by Mnhmoud Mukhtar In the vlcinitv of Visa were especially commonded The Turkish forces wore reported not merely to have been holding their own, but to have effected an Important advance which was threatening threat-ening the Bulgarian rear If this Turkish column joins hands with the garrison at Adrianople the Bulgarian army will be practically surrounded I and Its position very desperate. It Is alleged that, realizing the gravity of the situation, tho Bulgarian commanders have withdrawn the (army at Kustenje and their forces before Adrlonoplo and that these I troops arc being hurried to support I the center of the main Bulgarian army. I Some Idoa of the desperate natiire of the fighting 13 gathered from the fact that, mpre than 5,000 -wounded soldiers arrived n Constantinople to-nlhtrfroTir?thrtrnt:SFortunltlel to-nlhtrfroTir?thrtrnt:SFortunltlel n " majority of tho bullets drilled clean holes in thel'- victims and these will i heal rapidly. Athens, Nov 2 Accounts arc published pub-lished here of a massacro of Greeks b Turks in the town of Scrvia, Just j across the Greek frontier In Tur- I key. The reports say the fleeing Turkish troops In passing through l the village of Metassa ordero-l the Greek InhaDltanls to follow them on ' pcrlt of being massacred bj Turkish cavalrj On rcfi sing, 52 of the Greeka were made prisoners and taken lo Scrvia Scr-via and lodged in the Jail, in which were 7 others of their compatriots. I ator the governor of the prlt-on told tho Greeks they were free and or-I or-I dered thorn t- leave the building On i emerging the Greeks were surround-I surround-I ed by soldiers and an armed mob. I who began a massacro. Only four of I the Greeks escaped with their lives. When the massacre was over a soldier cut off the noses and hands of the dead men. Dispatches from Aita say that Turkish Turk-ish atrocities in Albania are continuing contin-uing and that the inhabitants of Epl-uis Epl-uis are Hoeing to Arta and the mountains. moun-tains. Constantinople, Nov 2. Essad Pasha, Pa-sha, commandoi of the Turkish forces at Scutari, teh'giaphing under date of Ootober 30. to the commander of the Turkish corps hi Salonikl, said "Send me some Turklsn troops. It is impobsiblc to hold out at this place with Albanians alone." Essad Pasha himself Is an Albanian. Alba-nian. At El Bassan, a town of I5,00i inhabitants, in-habitants, C4 miles southeast of Sci.-larl, Sci.-larl, In the vilayet of Monabtir, only 3.000 out of the 10,000 Albauians responded re-sponded when culled to tho colors The Turkish commander is asking for Turkish troops. The condition of refugees who are arriving from Kirk-Kilesseh Kirk-Kilesseh and Adiianople Is most pit-' lahle. Some 10,000 of them, including includ-ing women and children, are camp-lug camp-lug in the court yards of the mosques and there is danger of an epidemic. Three Turkish officers committed suicide at Klrk-Klllsseh when the panic arising from the defeat of the Turks by the Bulgarians set In. |