The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-04
.ULGARS DRIVING TURKS TO
 RETREAT
Terrific Fighting at Gates To- day Be fore Sultan Troops Driven Into Constantinople
Inside the City Riots Follow Att tempt of Starving People to Seize Food, Set Apart For Soldiers

Vienna, Nov. 4-Terrific f5gf1tire
 between Turks and Bulgarians was in progress just outside Constantinople. today. and rioting had broken out in the city itself. according to generally credited reports current here, today.
 The Rulgarians. it was said, were attempting to take the CataIja forti-
 lcations ny storm The rumor said they had succeeded and were driving the Turks into constantinople.
 The riots inside the city were said to have followed an attempt by the starving people to seize food, the gov ernment having communicated near Iy the whole supply in the city for several days to feed the troops. The or l9 2oths of it's strength for, Service at the front. was in ilnrnincnt dan 1t was said. Grave fears were ex. pressed that the outbreak Is only fhe oegfnning of 2 carnival of violence which will result in a wholesale mas sacre and sack of the city.
 Sofia. Nov. 4-rhe Bu1sarians sgs,n.t wers pgsin1g .,,a 1s.+ 9peratiens % today nople's defenses, which cross the T,Ir- kish sotltheastern 7z peninsufar from Kara Hllrun. on the Black Sea. Sea of Martfor a- N aps Of renewed dghfins tfie entire length oz thfrfy stantinopisss capture vas loses iooEed s,r for before the Turks haHe time to re- orEanize their forees The Turkish se,ina M the sS hatsdIa fortificstions eflls Ths capital Itself IS distant from the chain of forts less than 30 raAies.
 CLEANING UP. TURKS.
 Berlin. Nov 4.-Efther by exter- animation or capture. the Bulsarians, today. had practtcaily cleared east to the last line of defeuses. 30 miles west of Constantinople, accprding to reliable inforfnation from the field of
 How large proportion Of his army of approximately 2oo.006 men Maxim Pasha Succeeded in getting back to tions, was not positively known He force.
 While the Turks main strength at Lule Burgas was still lighting, the Bulgarians were crumpling up the Turkish east wing in the vicinity of Visa and striving to get between Lule the main army's retreat.
 Turkish reports that the Greeks are meeting with vigorous opposition in their march on SaIonika, appear ed, today, to have been like so many l Constantinople runors, wholly base less.
 The news that Salonika authorities ! had decided to surrender as soon as the Greeks arrived came from Salon l ika and was accepted as authentic. A | Greek force under Crown Prince Con stantine at latest accounts was at | Jen1Je, 25 miles west, and other force l under General Smolensky, was at | Polygra, 25 miles scutf cast.
 Several other Turkish towns were | reported to have fallen int Greek | hands, including Prevesa, on the Gulf | of Arta. where the fleet made its first | directly after the war began.
 Of the Servian troops little has been heard beyond the assertion, tele- from Belgrade, that they were repeatedly occupying fresh ter rltory and expected shortly to join the Greeks in an attack upon Mona stir.
 An unconfirn1ed report here credit ,d Essad Pasha with the declaration hat he intended to hold Scuta-, against the Montenegrins even if the sultan lost every other square foot of his European dominions.