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Show I TURKISH ARMY IS I ROUTED BY ALLIES f Nazim Pasha, Sultan's Minister of war, Defeated K In Battle Near Adrianople Turks Are j ; In Full Retreat ! K 1 flGHTIIG CONTIMUED FOR TIME DAYS II Victory of the Balkan Armies May Have Decisive II Effect on the War Situation Only Ml Meager Details Sent Out K ofia, Oct. 31. The Bulgarian army K lias completely routed the main.Turk-JfjML main.Turk-JfjML ish array under Nazim Pashu. The SB Turks fled in disorder, leaving ninny ft killed and wouiuluc on the Held. MM The battle, which is regarded as v the moaL Important engagement since e banning of the war, lasted throe P entire days. It extended along the ' line from Luele Burgas eastward 10 'yM- Serai. The Turkish front was over m 31 miles long. The Ottoman troops retieated to SB. Tchorlu, about 21 miles to the south M of the positions from which they were K driven by the Bulgarians. The town of Tchorlu, where tho Turks aro expected to make another I stand, occupies an important posltlor on the main road between Conitcn-tinople Conitcn-tinople and Adrianople at the point where the road from the port of Ro-dosto Ro-dosto joins. Unless the Turks hold this place they will be unable to brinr. any more troops from Asia Minor by way of Rodosto. London, Oct. 31. The flaT' s of the Turkish and Bulgarian armies, which roughly occupy lines stretching from I.ule Burgas to Vlss, have been engaged en-gaged for the last three days In a f-erics of determuitd fights. The Bulgarians claim to have defeated de-feated the Turks at the Lule Burgas, Bur-gas, while tho Turkish advices a3sert that the Bulgarians have been driven hack around Viss. Oi the Ilvhllng In the center no authoritative report ban et been received. The Bulgarians are staking ever-, thing on tho crslilt of this lnttle. They have brought up all the available reg-ilars reg-ilars to the front leaving the Investment Invest-ment of tho fortrcss-of Adriample, which now is completely hemmed inr lu their reserves, some of whom have taken the field m Chilian clothing. Tho Turkish commanders, too, appear ap-pear to have brought t- Europe all the troops it was possiblo to withdraw with-draw from Asia Minor, as it now is announced that iegu!fir traffic on the Anatolian railways has been partly resumed. re-sumed. Some of the Turkish troops from Asia Minor arc being landed at (he Bulgarian port of Bur?as, on the Black sea, doubtless with the hope of Graving Grav-ing in that direction part of the Bul- K garian troops engaged further to the B touth. B The report that Bulgarian cavalry 4J had gone to the port ofRodcslo, on U the Sea of Marmora, Is considered In". "jjj military circles to he fjuitc natural, I as there is a good road leading from I Lule BurgEs to the coast. Along this i is a line of railroad which has been ; under construction for some time, for the purpose of giving direct commu- nlcatlon between Asia Minor ar?J Ad- drlanople, without touching Constan- Itinople. Turkey has been using the port of Rodesto to replenish thv supplies sup-plies of the army at the front. On the other sldo of the peninsula tho Servian troops arc extending the area of territory conquered by them In Macedonia, It Is reported today that ? they have crossed the mountains and ; taken the town of Prlsrend, with a : large, quantity of Turkish war mate- ; i. rial. They arc said also to have tak- ' ; en Diakovo, still further to the west. (S Tho Greeks, too, appear to be spreading out their llnef They have ., occupied Grevena, on tho western L't road leading to MonaBtir l Grave fears are expressed in regard I to the Christian populations of Con-; Con-; Htantinoplo, Salonski and other Turk-l Turk-l iBh ports, where the news of Turkish 1 , defeats is being circulated In spile of i the censorship and official denials. Great Britain already has ordered a warship to proceed to Salonlki for the : : protection of British lives and prop 's ' erty there, and the action of the pow- t crs" in the matter is under consider- I I ', atlon. . '- . Sir Edward Groy, the British foreign ) : minister, slated today In the house of i tr commons that when tho military sit- M untlon in the Balkan peninsula per- 4 mltted, the powers would take step8 : to Insure enduring peace between the I ' , belligerents. |
