The searchlight., 1912-11-22
$4,000 SURRENDER
FALL or MoNAsTiR GREATEST
INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS OF
WAR.
IMPORTANT GREEK ROLE.
Sultan Makes New Appeal to Powers
to End the Confiict.-Other
War Moves.

London. Nov. 20.-Any idea that
the Turkish government may have
had of benefitting by continued resist
ance must be shattered by news of
the fall of Monastir. In the capture
of that important town the Servians
took three pashas, including the COM
mander-in-chief, Zekki Pasha, SC, 1000
men and AZ guns. thus achieving the
greatest Individual success of the war
Monastir was the second city of i'm
portance in European Turkey. II was
Turkeys stronghold in Macedonia, and
by its downfall Macedonia passes
completely out of Turkish hands.
What part the Greeks played in the
capture has not yet been ascertained.
IL is known that the Greek army was
marching to the assistance of the
Servians. and il is supposed that the
Greeks were able to cut OFF the Turk
ish retreat 10 the south.
The Servians naturally will be elat-
ed at the victory which outshines the
capture of Saloniki and must have a
great moral effect on the future course
of the war.
Another of the strange silences
which have been characteristic of this
war appears to have fallen over Con-
stantinople. from which city only brief
dispatches have been received, telling
of the resumption of the Tchatalja
battle and that the sultan has made
a fresh personal appeal to the Euro
pean sovereigns to intervene for the
termination of the war. Quite as lit.
tie may be expected to come of this
appeal as of the previous attempt at
mediation by the powers.
With cholera and typhus ravaging
her demoralized army and a powerful
enemy hammering at the gates of the
capital, Turkey must again appeal to
the allies for terms. Undoubtedly the
object of the commanders in ordering
the attack on the Tchatalja lines was
to compel this course. II seems in
credible that Bulgaria, for the mere
glory of a triumphant entry into a
city she does not desire possession Of,
should wish to take her army into q
disease infected zone.
Turkish reports. according to the
official dispatches of the results of the
operations, have been SO unreliable
throughout that little credence can be
paid to the statements regarding the
Tchatalja battle issued at Constants
nople on Sunday and Monday. The
operation probably was little more
than an artillery preparation. which in
all important battles lasts several days
for the purpose of drawing the enc.
mics fire and locating his batteries.
As the effect of the victory at Mon
astir will be 10 stiffen the Servian
government in resisting Austrian pre-
tentions, the consular troubles at Priz
rend and Mitroyitsa are breeding q
dangerous spirit of i'll feeling between
| Austria and Servia which is little cal
culated to avor diplomatic negotia
tions. The newspapers of both capi
tails reflect this feeling.
The correspondent of the Times
with the Turks, giving further detail.
of the battle along the Tchatalja lines
says:
The firing increased heavily TO
wards o'clock Sunday when the Bul
garian batteries, three miles northeas
of Tchatalja opened a continuous fir,
against the twin works of Hamidieh
Here the Bulgarian infantry seized tn,
village of lzzedin from which the.
were driven by the Turkish artillery
Soon after the village burst int,
flames. The Turkish troops appeare'
to be easily holding the enemy a
bay"
Reviewing the campaign the Sofi
correspondent Of the Times estimate
that $4,000 men have succumbed I
wounds OF disease, that is, about on
IN 40 of the whole male population
The significance of this great sacr
fee, he says. is scarcely realized in
country which bears its losses wit
admirable stoicism.