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Show ALLIES TO OPEN j THE DARDANELLES Bulgarians Plan to Clear Straits and Greek Fleet to Attack Constantinople From Sea of Marmora Mar-mora Troops iMarching on Gallipoli I TURKS KET DEFEAT ON PENINSULA Ottoman Troops Said to Be Retreating in Disorder With Bulgarians in Pursuit Whole Coast of Sea of Marmora to Bulair in Hands of Balkans Sofia. Bulgaria Feb. 6 The main object of the Bulgarian armies, apart from the reduction of the fortress of Adrianople. wa6 disclosed In dispatches dispatch-es given out by the war office to-if to-if day. The plan is to reach the Dardanelles Darda-nelles straits and clear them lor the i passage of the Greek fleet into the sea of Marmora Then the Greeks twill attack Constantinople directly .from the sea. From the reports of the fighting to the north of the peninsula of Gallipo-jli Gallipo-jli It can be seen thai one column of King Ferdinand's troop?, i? marching straight for the city of Gallipoli 1' has occupied rlreaclv the villages of ufedeste, Charkeul, Ravak and Bulair, which are on the neck of the peninsula penin-sula It has not yet, however come jlnto contact with any large force of iTurkish troops, of which there are raid to be 70,000 on the Galllopoli .peninsula The guns of the Hnrda-nelles Hnrda-nelles forts also can be trained toward 9. the land side. Turks Meet Defeat The Turkish arm) occupying the' peninsula 19 Galllopoli and defending 'the Dardanelles suffered a defeat a' the hands of the Bulgarians to the south of the river Kaak yesterda. Ilao.eonlinp to a statement by the Bulgarian Bul-garian war office today. The Ottoman troops are said to be ireterating In disorder toward Bulair. a small town to the northeast of the city of Gallipoli. pursued by the Bul-J Bul-J garians " The statement concludes that as Jf- .the result of this success of the Bnl-5 Bnl-5 garlan troops the whole coast of the sea of Marmora as far as Bulair Is ,now in the hands of the Balkau al- lies. |