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Show GREEK WIN BIG BATTLE! Defeat Turks on Road to Monastir Many Are Slain. I Athens, Nov. 2. The Greeks have dofeatcd the Turks in another battle on tho road to Monastir Advancing along the diiect road from Kosanl instead of bj the railway frdm Ver-ria. Ver-ria. the Fifth Greek division arrived at C o'clock last evening before the Turkish position or "Katioanhze, near the village or Malton. During the night a lorcc of Turks nnd Albanl-' ans attacked the Greek camp, but they were lepulsed 'with a lpss of I2u killed and wounded. At dawn tne Greeks began a gen-oral gen-oral attack on the fortified pasltion of the Trrks and after a fight last'ng two hours drove them out of their i trenches i ' Tho Turks lost 200 cavaliy and 100 infantry soldiers killed, while seven o; their field cuns were captured The inhabitants of the Turkish town of Nisusta, to tho northeast of Ycr- rla. have expelled the Turkish au- Ithoiities and invited the Greek crown j prince to occupy the town They have promised to supply the Greek ' army with 25,000 rations of bread I dally Constantinople, Nov 2. Newspaper l dispatches from Salonlskn, dated Np-I Np-I vcmber I, sav Jieayy fighting con-'tlnucs con-'tlnucs on the plain of Vnrdar aud that the Greeks are sustaining heavy losses The Turkish troops arc said to havo captured twenty-five Greek cavalry men and two field gunH and the Greeks arc described as being pursued bv the Turks. British nnd Trench cruisers have arrived at Salonika and two Gorman war vessels aro expected there. Moslom refugees continue to arrlvo here from Rodesto and Mldla. The price of bread has risen here but tho supplies of wheat, flour and meat continue to come from Russia, Roumania, and the Anatolian prov-lnce. prov-lnce. , The German gunboat Lorlel, bringing bring-ing aboard Abdul Hamld from Salonika Salon-ika arrived here todaj Abdul Ham-id Ham-id and tho women of the harem are to be placed for the present In Loyler Bev palace, on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. |