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Show OTTOMAN ARMY LOSES THOUSANDS Many Men and Fifty Officers Lost at Bulair Several Thousand More Fall at Tchatalja Lines and Thousands More at Charkeui WELL DIRECTED SHELL FIRE CAUSES HAVOC Bulgarians Entrenching Their Positions Many Men Removing Bodies of Turks 12,000 Wounded Deadly Infantry Fire Inflicts Heavy Losses When Ottomans Attempt to Land . Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb U. The Turk fgta army in the peninsula of Galipoli lost six thousand men and fifty officers offi-cers during the fighting at Bulair, according ac-cording to a report issued here today Several thousand Turkish soldiers are declared to have fallen in a battle bat-tle before the Tchatalja lines on February Feb-ruary 9 and thousands more at Charkeui Char-keui Today's report says "The Bulgarian army having repulsed repuls-ed seseral Turkish attacks along the Tchatalja lines, except on the extreme right flank. where they were exposed to the convergent fire from the Turk ish warsnTps in the sea of Marmora and the gulf of Buyuk Chekmedje re tired to fresh positions five or si miles to the rear The losses of Hip Bulgarians were insignificant, whil those of the Turks amounted to several sever-al thousand men, mainly due to the excellently directed Bulgarian shell fir. Entrenching Positions I "'The Bulgarians are entrenching their positions in front of P.ulair Large bodies of men have been sent Jm to elea th field of battle of the bod ies of Turkish soldiers, which number from 5,000 to 6,000. It is believed that the number of wounded Turkish soldiers must be more than 12.u00 "The Turkish warships Bbelled the Bulgarian left flank all day but only I killed one and slightly wounded another an-other Bulgarian soldier. Ottomans Almost Surrounded. The Turkish troops which descend- j d upon Charkemi nar the port of Rodosto on Saturday and Sunda were almost surrounded by the Bnl garian army and were compelled has I tiiy io retire to their tranaportat ion under the protection of the Turkish il warships "The Bulgarian infantry on shore I kept up a deadly fire on the small boats loaded with Turkish troops, in- flirting losses amounting to sever.il j thousand men The Bulgarian losses In the who!" aftalr did not exceed 100, l killed and wounded vote on it during this legislative d Further conference with the house was demanded on legislative, cxecu-tive cxecu-tive and judicial appropriation bill for considering commerce court prevision. previ-sion. Agricultural appropriation bill, carrying car-rying approximately $17,000,000, w;-c; passed Representative Ileflin in speech eulogized eu-logized Lester Brian, the Kentucky corn club bov, who died here Attorney General declines to furnish j congress with reasons for withdraw:'! I of suits against the Standard Oil In Texas. |