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Show IGREAT BATTLE TO I BE FOUGHT SOON JW , 111 Armies in Balkan States Gather Around Adriano-11 Adriano-11 pie, Old Turkish Capital, and Will Attempt H. to Capture City by Storm. I HALF IIJLLEOiN MEN READY FOR STRUGGLE m fit Bulgarian Army Has Taken Turkish Town of Mus-B Mus-B tapha Pasha and Crossed Into Sultan's H Territory at Many Points. LSf London, OcL 10. Half a million I Dp men, armed with tho dealHcsL of 1E modern 'war implements, are gather-jB gather-jB ing around Adrlanople. the old capl-W capl-W tal of northern Turkey todav for what WLg military men anticipate will ba. long III hardfought and bloody siege. JB The Bulgarian army, estimated to ijjJiE number 200,000 men, reinforced by riv 50,00 D Servians, as soon as war was &. C'arei began (o fight its way in By three columns through the mountain Hf passes which divide the Balkan states Ha from the territory of the Ottoman flf empire. The Bulgarians succeeded in r driving back the Turkish outposts, in. 2 eluding that at Mustapha Pasha. 'Ms As Mustapha Pasha is only seven -fffi teen miles from the fortress of Bl- Adrianople, a long time cannot elapse Llf before the main armies come into III touch. Ill The Turkish army a read v has 200,- J 111 000 men in position and thousands m& more are arriving dally at the front, ' BiK so that while their adversaries for v the moment have some advantage in . Hi numbers, the two forces when they ttf meet probably will be nearly equal. iiT Tue Turks apparently are prepar-Wm prepar-Wm 'nff 'or n S11-'111 nattle and are satls-nXfled satls-nXfled new to withdraw their troops HFfrom the frontier posts as their oppo-BE oppo-BE nents advance. Bfl Cut Off From World. Kg The drama on which tho curtain Is BE rising is practically cut off from tho It view of the rest of the world, as the Bt chiefs of staffs of the various armien Ht have imposed a strict censorship. One p. of the rules Issued to war correspond. Hgcnts by ihe Bulgarian government Is. Hjthat nothing may be cent regarding"? JB any reverse tho Bulgarian army may V buffer. HJ' A simultaneous advance Is being mj made by the eoveral Servian columns dB and they are making some progress. He, according to roport. "JK It is said in Belgrade that the old H Servians and Macedonians havo cut H the communications between Uskup atf and Salonikl thus preventing the Sw transport of reinforcements for the Jp Turkish troops at the front This II report lacks confirmation. IjB' The invasion of the Novipazar dis-Hj dis-Hj trlct of northwestern Turkey by an-Tl an-Tl other Servian column, whose aim wbb l to Join the Montenegrins doubtless Jaw Jlccounts f1' l1je visit made by the BE Russian and Austrian minister to 7 King Nicholas of Montenegro at j PI Podgoritza. as It was this strip of j IK territory which Austria would not al- j Qb low any other people to occupy. Dls-BE Dls-BE turbanco there might cause Europe BV to be drawn into the conflict. I ink Fear is expressed in some quarters aj that King Ferdinand's manifesto to Mm. the Bulgarians Is likely to force the i 'lUt Russian government to intorvene In I ClS behalf of tllG,r s,av relatives gjl Eombard Turkish Towno, H Podgorltza, Montenegro, Oct. 1ft. Bf The Turkish port of Tarakosch on Wjt lake Soutarl and other places in the KB vicinity were bombarded yesterday by H the Montenegrin troops. m ; Crown Prince Danilo of Montenegro j v left today for Lake Scutari, where Si i plans for further operations by the W Montenegrin army are being prepared 1 ' by tho staff. u!j Tho declaration of war against B Turkey by the other Balkan states 5 was celebrated at a dinner, during ' which all the Balkan ministers drank ; toests to the health of King Nicholas Bi j and the Montenegrin army P' I Turkc Are Advancing. f ! London, Oct 19. One of the Turk- I ; ish armies, according to a news agen-IJ agen-IJ ' cy dispatch from Constantinople, iB p : advancing toward Sofia, tbe Bulgarian r caplta.1, through the Djuma Paoo In - the Rhodope mountains, while anoth-M anoth-M er Is marching on PhlHpopoliE, B through Tlmrush. II ' Destroying Railroad. Br Belgrade. Servla, Oct. 19. The re-Bf' re-Bf' port of the capture of Prishtlna yea-H' yea-H' torday by Servian troops was false. Ifj according to an official noto Issued 'Mt today. The first Servian array corps Jf commandel bj' the crown prince hns Ki crossed the Turkish frontier near S Rltzovatz, where it drove back a force or Arnaut tribesmen and took the il ' small town of BujanovRz and a rail-yl rail-yl road station between Rltsovatz and II Uskup. Tho TurklBh troops are de-R de-R l stroylug the railroad, 1 Abdul Hamld Changes Places. Wn Constuntlnoplo, OeU 19. The trans-dri trans-dri for of ex-Sultan .Vbdul Hamld from jk the place whero ho haG been confined rit In Salonikl to Constantinople wob 'IRJ sanctioned by the aultau today after J the consul of ministers had decided ait upon the step. The press generally Jjj considers tho change inopportune. wp Capture Turkish Town. "Ik Sofia, OcL 19. Tho occupation of Ithe Turkish town of Mustapha Pasha (by two battalions of Bulgarian ln-. ln-. fantry lEbt night I3 reported In a dispatch dis-patch from the front. Tho Turkish troops are said to have abandoned the town before tho arrival 'of tho Bulgarians, j The Bulgarian troops have also ' crossed the frontier at other points and have captured the small towns of T8nrevosclo, Garnla aud Djuma. Other Oth-er columns have penetrated through the passes of the Rhodope mountains and marched across tho frontier Into Turkish territory. Under General Saoff. the commander-in-chief, the Bulgarians oc-Icup'ed oc-Icup'ed one after another of the fortl-I fortl-I fled positions around the town of 1 Mustapha Pasha last night which It-! It-! self finrlly fell into their hands. ! There was considerable sharp fight- ing. |