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Show I TURKISH CITY IS II) TAKEN BY ALLIES j Stronghold of Uskup Captured By Balkan Armies 1 1 After Hard Fighting Slaughter Is Heavy on I Both Sides Allies Take Artillery. , ADIilOPLElEfili BY CANNON ill All Reports Indicate That the Turks Are Rapidly iflj Losing Ground Before the Steady Advance fe if of the Christian Armies. W l Belgrade, Servla, Oct. 26. The Tur- j ,1 kl3h stronghold of Uskup is report- K a ed In a telegram which reached high "9 ft state persons here today to have been yJT ? taken by the allied Servian and Bul- jM ft garJan armies. rj I'Ondon, Oct 2G, The Balkan allies vS ) ll,) t0 tne Present nave nad all the )Y '; best of the fighting in their ware r against the Turks, so far as can be M gathered from the official reports, the majority 'of which come from Balkan pa ' sources. According to these thoy are f pushing their advantage In eevry dl- m k- l'ect!on- The Bulgarians, since "their flm i victory at Klrk-KillsBoh have been IflG J perfectng their line of investment W ! around the fortified city of Adrlan- H f ople. They have taken positions to H & the north, the northwest and south- H S east of the olty and are now busy S 4 strengthening their lines to the jB iiortlfxcst Some of the shells thev ? have thrown into the city hae, it is H i reported, caused serious fires. H 1 At to same time the Bulgarinn H jf eastern army Is moxing to the south- H east along the Bosphorus road to- H I ward Runarhlssar One brigade is 01 reported to have reached the city of IT Visa, whenco It may threaten the fit I Turkish second line of defense at W f I.ule Burgas and also the communi- i J5 !-i cations between Adrlanople nnd Con- 9 X s(antinople. Military experts here J E I consider this movement of the Bui- , "J 'i garians a daring and perilous adven- i Jj Jt, ture loaving opportunities for count- I I? Cr strokes wh,ich the Turkish gen- Kg erals arc not likely to overlook. A I S 9 dispatch from Stara Zagora today I !S ft plr.cesthjj ryunbeivof Turkish prls- ijt 4 oners taken by the Bulgarians at i SZ rt Klrk-KUisseh at 2.000 mon. oxclud- S I lng deserters. The wounded are re- ' 2jt ported to be suffering terribly, ow- 22 f, ing to lack of surgical appliances and j 3 w tho incomplete equipment of the field i 3J( I hospitals, j 1 ,The Serbians, assisted In the south 3f i -by the Bulgarlns, have obtained pos- if ? session of the Turkish wagon road .Sj skirting the frontier from the town jjj? s of Novipazar to Kumanova, v.hile In' 9j f the viclnltj' of Uskup and other places 5 further north they are approaching 5? i the railroad. SX 'I The fighting In the western war " ) area 1b of the hardest kind, all along Su the line and the los3es sustained by 1 both armies must have been enorm- pi ( ous. U y Tho Montenegrin generals report zH. i the capturo of further towns in the J district of Novipazar and the taking JJ( of a town near Tarakosch from which 'i they can throw shells Into tho fort- K A ress of Scutari. , ft Tarakosch is being attacked from jk threo sides with sixty-two field ruhb j if according to a special dispatch from 5 jc .Jitivarl. Tho Greek troops now con- 5 g trol the two main ronds leading from 5. the Greek frontier and they are ad-i ad-i , vanclng toward the Turkish" fortress-w' fortress-w' j eg of Salonlk,, Six hundred Turkish jlK prisoners taken by the Greeks have 1 arrlved at Larlssa on their wny to 1' Greece. |