The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-22
$4,000 SURRENDER
FALL OF MONASTiR GREATEST
INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS OF
WAR.
IMPORTANT GREEK ROLE.
Sultan Makes New Appeal to Powers
to End the Conflict.-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-c chief, Zekki Pasha, $4,000
men and IL guns thus achieving the
greatest individual success Of the war
Monas1ir was the second city of i'm
portance in European Turkey 1t was
Turkeys stronghold in Macedonia, and
by its downfall Macedonia passes
completely ont of Turkish hands.
What part the Greeks played in the
capture has not yet been ascertained
1t is known that the Greek army was
marching to the assistance of the
Servians. and it is supposed that the
Greeks were able to cut off the Turk
ish retreat to the south
The Servians naturally will be elat-
ed at the victory which outshines the
capture Of Saloniki ard must have a
great moral effect on the future course
Of the war
Another Of the strange Slences
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
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 1t seems in
credible that Bulgaria, for the mere
glory of triumphant entry into a
city she does not desire possession of,
should wish to take her army into a
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 COnstanti-
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 to stiffen the Servian
government in resisting Austrian pre-
tentiOns, the consular troubles at Priz.
rend and Mitrovitsa are breeding a
dangerous spirit of i'll feeling between
Austria and Servia which is little cal
culated to avor diplomatic negotia-
tions. The newspapers of both CAPT
tails reflect this feeling.
The correspondent of the Times
with the Turks, giving further details
of the battle along the Tchatalja lines,
says:
THE firing increased heavily to-
wards o'clock Sunday when the Bull
garian batteries, three miles northeast
of Tchatalja opened a continuous fire
against the twin works of Hamidieh.
Here the Bulgarian infantry seized the
village Of IZzedin from which they
were driven by the Turkish artillery.
Soon after the village burst into
flames. The Turkish troops appeared
to be easily holding the enemy at
bay"
Reviewing the campaign the Sofia
correspondent of the Times estimates
that $4,000 men have succumbed to
wounds or disease, that is, about one
in 40 of the whole male population.
The significance of this great sacri-
flee, he says, is scarcely realized in a
country which bears it's losses with
admirable stOicism.