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Show THREATEN TO TAKE THE CITY BY STORM London, OCL 27. Adrianople burning, burn-ing, cut off from the main TurkiBh army at Deraotika, near the point of starvation, still withholds Its formal surrender to the Bulgarians tonight and In so doing is dariCfc completa destruction. '? I The Bulgarians are bombarding the I city from every point of the compass, Every outpost ban been taken and Bulgarian troops are within the outer city. Only tho inner circle of twenty- four forts remains Intact. Practically Practical-ly all of the public buildings havo been razed by fire. The ancient fortress fort-ress is a fcharrcd shell. Off to the south of the besieged city the strongest of the Bulgarian divisions Is marching on Demotlka, where the helpless army of 150,000 men under Abdullah Pasha is encamped. en-camped. The Bulgarians and their Servian allies have deliverod an ultimatum to the garrison within tho Inner forts that a combined bayonet charge will be executed within twenty-four hours unless the Turks surrender. This ul- tlmatum expires early tomorrow morning. The International News Service correspondent cables from Starazag-ora, Starazag-ora, headquarters of the Bulgarian army, that arrangements have been made for tho complete Investment of tho city Thousands of prisoners have arrived at Starazagora. Ho also stales that estimates placing the Turkish dead at 10,00 are not exaggerated ex-aggerated but probably fall short of tho casualties that will be disclosed by official reports The Bulgarian losses havo also been heavy. Many non-combatants unablo to leave the city have been killed, " Daring Turk Aviator. Reports received here tell of the daring of a Turkish aviator is responsible re-sponsible for practically all the Bulgarian Bul-garian losses slnco tho guns of the outer forts were silenced. This intrepid in-trepid airman has made flights over the Bulgarian batteries with great regularity dropping bombs from a height beyond rifle range. The operations of tho allies are greatlv facilitated by the capture at Kirk Kilisseh of the complete plans for the Ottoman army for the eastern east-ern campaign. |