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Show RUSSIANS CAPTURE BULGARIAN FORI ' CITY TAKEN AFTER SEVERE BOMBARDMENT BOM-BARDMENT DURING WHICH TOWN IS LAID IN RUINS. The Russians Then Landjd Infantry and Artillery Without Loss and in Sufficient Force to Hold the Town Against the Bulgarians. London. The Daily Chronicle reports re-ports the capture of Varna, Bulgaria's chief Black sea port, by the Russians. Rus-sians. It says the bombardment of the Russians Rus-sians silenced the Bulgarian guns and laid the town in ruins, the garrison suffeing heavily. The Russians then, according to the report, landed infantry and artillery without loss and in usfflcient force to hold the town again Bulgarian attack. at-tack. - The Russian force was reported by the Athens correspondent of the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company to consist of a Russian cruiser and two destroyers, destroy-ers, convoying sixteen transports filled with troops. The Bulgarian port of Varna is on the Black sea a few miles south of the Roumanian border. It is a railroad rail-road terminus. This city and Burgas, fifty miles further south, are the principal prin-cipal Bulgarian Black sea ports. On several occasions since the beginning be-ginning of the Teutonic drive through Serbia it has been reported that the Russians would attempt an invasion of Bulgaria from the sea and it has been said forces were being concentrated concen-trated for this purpose at Odessa. Previous Pre-vious dispatches reporting Russian naval na-val demonstrations before Varna or Burgas, presumably preparatory to an effort to land troops, were not borne out subsequently. The only additional details of the withdrawal of the British forces from the Gallipoli peninsula revealed from British sources Tuesday were those gleaned from Premier Asquith's speech in the house of commons in which he stated that the British losses were confined to three men wounded, a few guns abandoned after being rendered useless, and an insignificant amount of stores which were left -behind. From Turco-German sources, however, how-ever, several contradictory details reached London. The Constantinople official communication gave the Turkish Turk-ish aide of the withdrawal and it was somewhat amplified by a Constantinople Constantino-ple dispatch circulated through the British wireless. |