The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-11-12
ATTACKS ON ADR|ANOP[E
Forts of Kazaltepe and Papazfepe
Captured After Tremendous Fight
ing-Desperate Battle I'm
the Dark

Paris. Nov. IA graphic descrip-
tion of the storming by the BuIgarians
Of the two Turkish, forts at Kazaltepe
and Papaztepe, in the outer line of
Notifications around Adrianop1e, is for
warded by correspondent of the
Matin. He declares that their capture
seals the doom of the Turkish strong
hold.
The operations began at daybreak
on Thursday. Following their usual
brilliantly successful tactics the Bull
garian infantry advanced in the direc-
tion of the forts under cover of a
murderous fire OF shrapnel. The Tur-
kish troops in their turn sailed out
from the forts to deliver a counter al
tack.
1t was then the turn of the Bulgar-
ians' heavy siege artillery. which from
every point on the surrounding hills
rained a terrible hail of projectiles on
the lines of the Turkish troops. Every
moment saw fresh companies OF Turks
marching out from the city and the
forts toward the Bulgarians who con-
tinued to draw their lines closer
around the forts.
The accurate fire of the Bulagrians'
big guns began to tell at about 10
o'clock in the morning, when the can
non in the fort of KaZaltepe began to
slacl<en their reply. The fort had been
swept by a heavy storm of shells for
several hours, the great projectiles
bursting right over the works.
The Turkish infantry had mean
while resisted stubbornly the Bulgar-
ian advance, but their lines gradually
began to waver.
Suddenly the command, Fix bay
onets" rang out from the Bulgarian
officers, and then, cheering wildly, the
Bulgarian infantry dashed forward
and the Turks broke and ran toward
the city.
At about noon the Bulgarian colors
f1uttered up over the fort of Kazaltepe,
but Papaztepe still held out.
Fighting by searchIights
Nightfall found the Turks and Bull
garians still fighting. Suddenly in the
dense darkness a long dazzling ray of
light shot across the sky from one of
the crests held by the Bulgarians
bringing the fort on Papaztepe clearly
into view. Then from the fort itself
another brilliant ray shot out.
The cannon and rifle fire which had
been slackening Immediately became
more Dr1Sk wnlle ABOVE the search
lights flashed their rays around, in
which little balls of white smoke caus-
ed by the bursting shrapnel fioated
like flies in a sunbeam, making even
deeper the surrounding blackness that
was punetured here and there by
flashes from the muzzles of cannon.
The roar of the siege and field guns
dominated the rafting of the rifle vol
leys and the screeching of shells a.
they hurled through the air.
The fire from the Papaztepe fort be-
gan gradually to slacken. There also
the Bulgarian siege guns had caused
enormous ravages.
| Attacked I'm Darkness
Abruptly the searchlights were ex-
| tinguished at about IL o'clock at night
and the Bulgarian infantry began tc
storm the fort at the point of the bay
onet Shortly before midnight they
had become masters of.the position and
the Turks were in flight. They left
their dead and dying by hundreds or
the field.
The fort on Papaztepe is one of the
most important features of the defense
OF Adrianople. 1t commands not only
the city itself but all the other works
Throughout the operations Bulgarian
aeroplanes flew back and forth ovel
the Turkish forts, bringing valuable
information to the Bulgarian generals
! in command.