Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-19
Cross Servian From
tier, Apply Torch
to Villages--Bu
Christian Churches.
NIGHT RAID ENDS IN
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER
Montenegrin Advance Checked
by General Gessed Pasha's
Army-BuIgarians Capture
Mustapha Pasha.

LONDON, Oct. 19.-Turkish bands
today massacred the inhabitants of
three Servian villages to the south
west of the town of Krushevatz, kill
ing women and children, according to
q news agency dispatch from Bel
grade Three Christian churches were
also burned.
(, The Turbs crossed the Servian from
tier from the Novipazar district, at
tackled the villages and then retired.
The advance of the Montenegrin
army on Scutarl has been checked by
the Turkish troops commanded by
Easad Pasha, according to dis
patch from Saloniki. The Monteneg-
rims are said to be in critical po-
sition, as 10000 Albania tribesmen are
cooperating with the Turkish troops.
SOFIA, Oct. 19.-The Turkish town
of Mustapha Pasha was taken last
night by the Bulgarian army corps
which is marching on the great for
.ress of Adrianople. The Turks were
repuIsed all along, the line,
Inc bulkdIldn AiOOpo io'S e~iHN
crossed the frontier at other points
and have captured the small towns OF
Tsareyoselo, Garnia and Djuma. Other
columns have penetrated through the
passes of the Rhodope mountains and
marched across the frontier into
Turkish territory.
The advance of the Bulgarian
troops on Mustapha Pasha was
watched by King Ferdinand, several
princes and General Savof. the Buf-
garian commander-in-chief, from q
height at varmaly Belitha, on the
frontier. u
The Bulgarians occupied one after
another fortified position around the
town of Mustapha Pasha, which itself
finally fell into their hands.
There was considerable fighting, and
after the battle King Ferdinand con-
graduated the troops and decorated
many of the wounded men.
BELGRADE, Servia, Oct. 19.-The
report of the capture of Pristina yes
terday by the Servian troops was
false. according to an official note is
sued here toda.
The First Servian army corps,
commanded by the crown prince, has
crossed the Turkish frontier, neal
Ristoyatz, where it drove back a
force of Arnaut tribesmen and took
the small town of Bujanovatz and a
railroad station between Ristovatz
and Usl1up. The Turkish troops are
destroying the railroad.s
The German Red Cross Society at
Berlin today sent surgeon and
twenty-five nurses to Turkew to as
sist in caring for the wounded.
German officers employed in the
Turkish service have been forbidden
to participate in the war, unless they
resign their commissions in the Ger
man army.
The first big battle in the war in
the Balkans is being fought today.
The lighting began at kirk -Kilisseh,
an important strategic point near
Rrustapha Pasha, which is in Eu-
ropean Turkey, twenty miles north
west of the city of Adrianople.
1t is already evident that the great
est struggle of the campaign on Tur-
keys northern border will be for the
DOSSeSS1OH Ol -AuI ehhS SoPSoA
of which by the Bulgarians would
leave the road open to Constantinople.
Promptly upon the declaration OF
war Bulgaria has driven her troops
on forced marches straight for
Adrianople. She must first seize Mus
tapha Pasha, the key to the road to
4 Adrianople, lying near the mountain
pass from Bulgaria to Turkish soil.
While the Bulgarians are whipping
down to The south their Serb allies
are pushing toward Uskab. The
Macedonian Serbs, says report, have
risen and are giving all aid to their
intended liberators by destroying the
aileI of railroad between Uskab and
eak MICA. They are doing all they can
~ harry the Turks. blowing up
@ydges, cutting telegraph lines and
e,alring up rails.
CONSTAN Oct. 19.--The
transfer of ex-Sultan Abdul Hamed
from the place where he has been con-
fined in Saloniki to Constantinople
was sanctioned by the sultan today,
after the council of ministers had de-
clded on the step. The press gener-
a1tv ooneidera tha chanpa iuonnar-