The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-27
DOOMED GARRISON
IN AOR|ANOPLE IS
SWEPT BY FIRE
Bursting Shells of Bulgarian
Army Set Buildings and
Forts Ablaze
USKUB STRONGHOLD
is TAKEN BY STORM
News of Terrific Fighting
With Heavy Losses Is
Heard in Wilma
Turks Cut Off

ey's hope against the armies OF tho
East, has fallen.
Adrlanople. key to the Bosphorous.
swept by fire started in hundred
places by bursting shells from the
Bulgarian artillery, and beset on three
sides by an irresistible infantry and
cavalry attack, is doomed.
Scutari, the easternmost Turkish OUT
post in Albania, and the only re-
straining barrier before the army Of
King Nicholas, IL undergoing Mon-
tenegrin bombardment that cannot be
resisted another twelve hours
News of the fall OF uskub. the over
shadowing development of the day
In the Balkan war. comes this evening
In a dispatch from vran1e, via Vienna
Details of the lighting are neagre.
The dispatch refers to terrific light
ing" heavy losses on both Sides. ana
thousands Turkish prisoners
Only humiliation tonight awaits the
brave garrison that Is holding the In
ner forts Of Adrianopie against the ter
rife onslaughts Of. the Bu1ga-iAnA
The residents have fed. and the Bull
gars are swarming into the outer
city. their way lighted by the fiaEneMs
of the burning buildings and forfta.
cations
Abtiullah's Army IDLE.
Twenty miles away to the Southeast
In the main Turkish army-urd~r
Abdatiahz Pasha.- 80. ono nssn-sa3y@
waiting at Demojita In the belief that
no attack. however strong. could take
the ancient and. heretofore regarded,
insprernahle STRONGHOLD OF Adrianopfes
DetourinE to the Southeast from
the base OF operations in front of
Adrianople, a formidable force of IsaI-
garians and Serbs il making TOR the
line Of communicate ons connecting
Adrian0pie with CpnstankinopI6, and.
hewfag path for the other nrrnles
which will advance on DomokitM.
when the garrison Of Adrianopia shall
have SURRENDERED. News OF this rrr-
render Is expected hourly.
Estimates OF the Turkish iosscs al
Kirk Kilisseh and Adranop1e place
the number at 1900. and the wound-
ed at 10000. Thousands Of prisoners
have been taken. and thousands more
will be taken from divisions OF ti10
Turkish army whose retreat Is cut on.
Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish conf-
mander at Kirk X iiisseh, with the
bulk of his army. has been cut of On
all sides but the North. and In that d.
rection. only few miles away. IL tho
neutral border Of Eastern Raumallas,
Seige Of Adrianople.
nopie is regarded as a daring and
master stroke on the part OF Gar
Ferdinand, who, at last reports last
night, had apparently resolved to be-
siege the city and encourage the
Turks to surrender by dropping shells
among them.
The effect Of the shells overreact1ed
the expectations of the cxar, how
ever. Fire sprang up in various sec
tions of the city with remarkahle
rapidity throughout the evening. and
at midnight the fire-lit sky could h4
seen for miles around. as could the
great volumes Of smoke that rolled
off through the hills. The Turk kun-
ners were helpless. The Bulgars werel
firing from the darkness. with only
the spit of the cannon to betray their
position.
soon after midnight the czar ORDER
ed general advance. one army de-
touring to the north. another to tho
northeast. and third to the south. Az
daybreak these divisions were at the
outer Notifications. and those thak.
had not been devastated by fire Ans4s
flame, were wrested from their d0-s
lenders Through their glasses the
artillery officers ON the heights SAW IN
Wild scene OF panicstricken inhAbtr
tants stampeding through the city,
gates. The artillery fire WAS KEPT
up, covering the main bodies as they
followed the advance guards.
Garrison EnyeIoped.
Before noon, the main advance hasaa
developed into series OF vicious
charges. One after another OF tM0A
outer forts fell. until the invaders lat4s
today held enough ground to ropN&l
any advancing Turkish refnfOtG&sI
ments, Of which there can be nonesS
for the most formidable force ~
Rulgars stands between Demokita A11sS
fhc beaieged city, The remafn1M0S
Turks are prisoners within their o.
licenses.
AT Uskub the method OF attack Ill
the Servians was q replica Of tANs
Bulgarian tactics at Adriancple. l15Ss
fan NJ the city has unlimited 1O11s
days Of the most g,'narv aHhftnT
The battle began at kumanova, t1a
strongly fortified outpcat. where N1
Wednesday, morning the Turks tQeS
the offensive and advanced to aMMs
Servtan position. Ave miles from gNa
city. The battle iastAsl NIL day. 1lN5
Servians holding their positiCn, 6G@
r,akin~ M headway toward their ~ IN
Jectivc point. Thursday morning CO.
Herviars ATTACKED the Turks who h(
entr1nched themselves during the III
IN the fiRhting At 6 o'clock the 80
Wan commander ordered 9c049 Z
advance. Marching over open eroN
the Hervians met rnking stro &k4
the TurKish field artillery, hut
sforming the Tuskteh trenches Ae@1 s
and again they finally drove tn 0&
man frnopa pllt. ne
Seraa CIear NaIIcy. ss
Four hours later the 6efhe
cleared the valley. Yen4erdAy
fO0k the heights an the right 64HE