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Show ALLIES BOMBARD ALL SIDESOF CITY Troops Train Heavy Siege Guns on Fortress of Adrianople Heroic Conduct of Servian Regiments Reg-iments Praised Correspondents Are Barred. SHARP FIGHTING BEGINS AT TCHATALJA Roar of Cannon Plainly Heard in Constantinople Bulgarians Capture 1,000 Turkish Troops in Attempted Sortie From Adrianople, Latest News From the Front. Sofia. Feb. 6. The bombardment of Adrianople continued today on all Bides of the city The heavy siege guns brought up by the Servian troops were trained on the principal works of the fortress. Bulgarian army headquarters report thar yesterday passed without any fighting along the Tchatalja lines. I London, Feb. 5 The bombardment of Adrianople. which opened on Monday Mon-day proceeded without interruption today. A report was spread that the Bulgarians Bul-garians had decided to suspend operations oper-ations for 24 hours so as to give the Turkish garrison an opportunitv ol surrendering This, however, appears to be without foundation, as are man of the stories spread broadcast in reference to conditions around and in the beleaguered fortress. A message from Belgrade. Servia, this morning speaks of the "heroic conduct" of a couple of Servian regiments regi-ments which participated in an stta Is S on the ouler circle of forts. There is no means of erifying this or any other reports, as such fighting as max ,bo in progress is taking place behind be-hind closed doors so far as the out-tide out-tide world is concerned Dependence has to be placed on the more or less biased stories given out by the respective army headquarters Only on extremely rare occasions w tan a newspaper correspondent snCrl W4 ceed in circumventing the 6frict cen- 1 I scrship Late Dispatches. A sharp engagement began late today to-day on the Tchatalja lines, accord-I accord-I ing to a dispatch from Constantino- ' pie. The roar of the cannon is said to be plainly audible in the Turkish capital. During a sortie by the Turkish troops from Adrianople 1000 of them were taken prisoners by the Bulgarians, Bulga-rians, according to a dispatch from Sofia |