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Show TM i TOWN IS BURNING. 1 Sofia, Oct. 26. A portion of tho n I town of Adrlanople has been set on It fire by tho Bulgarian artillerj, ac-fj ac-fj jl cording to private dispatches recelr- jj erl hero. The Bulgarian troops have I rjt taken the outlyln; forts of Maras, I ;? Ilavaras and Sufliar. lying to tho I v north and northeast of the city, and I also have captured a railroad station I :i iu the extreme outskirts of the town. I Jl Eighteen hundred prisoners have fall- IRff on Into their hands. f Tho 860 prisoners who arrived here ' yostorday from Mustapha Pasha were captured in some of tho smaller towns taken by the Bulgarians Tho entire absence of Turkish officers among thu prisoners captured at Kirk-Klloa-seh 1b much commented on, as the first reports wore that the Turkish garrison had been taken. The army is roported to be advancing advanc-ing along the whole front and a dispatch dis-patch to tho government organ Mir says the Turks are retreating In panic, pan-ic, while the civilian population Is fleeing toward Constantinople. The villape of Kotchavi was captured cap-tured by the Bulgarians yesterday after af-ter severe fighting at the point of tho bayonet. |