Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-11-02
UninterfuptedIy, the Struggle
Has Gone en- Day and Night
During Half a Week Of Des-
perate Fighting,
MOHAM MEDANS CLAIM
ADVANTAGES so FAR
Movement to Front Continues
Precautions Taken to Pre-
serve ConStantinople tom
Disorder,


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Con-iantnopic, Nov. ID u. m)
Whatever the issue of the terrible
battle now raging on the western
slopes OF tho lsuandia mountains III
Thlace. II undoubtedly will be reckon
cd among the worlds greatest strus-
Giles. Almost uninterruptedly for four
daVs and three nights the battle mas
proceeded the moon having afforded
Sufficient light at night for the armies
to continue their fierce onslaushts.
Turks and Bulgarians are locked in
a grapple which will be broken only
by the decisive defeat Of one OF the
other.
'rhc dearth of news from the front
Wednesday and Thursday had given
rise to feeling of despondency, ana
sensational rumors of Turkish re-
verses gained currency. Today OIL
claI reports proved these rumors TO
be unfounded.
kilograms from various sources
paye favorable accounts Of the milf
tary situation and the troops COM
manded by Mahmoud Mouktar Pasha
in the vicinity Of Was were especially
commended.
The Turkish forces were reported
not merely to have been holding their
own. but to have effected an import
ant advance which was threatenihs
the Bulgarian rear. II this Turkish
column Joins hands with the garrison
at Adrianople the Bulgarian army WIZ
be practically surrounded aud its po-
sition very desperate.
Ii is alleged that. realizing the
gravity Of the situation, the Bulgar-
ian commanders have withdrawn the
army at Kustienje and their forces
before Adrianople and that these
troops are being hurried to support
the center OF the main Bulgarian
army.
some idea of the desperate nature
of The fighting is gathered from the
fact that more than 5000 wounded
soldiers arrived in Constantinople TO-
night from the front Fortunately
majority Of the bullets drilled clean
holes in their victims and these VIII
heal rapidly. A batch of deserters ar
rived with the wounded.
INDIGNATION and surprise were eX-
prosscd here today over the TACT that
a creek torpedo boat had succeeded
in entering the Gulf Of Saloniki last
night, despite the mines and heaNiS
armed forts, ana had blown up the
Turkish battleship Feth-l- Bulend'
The commandant of the forts will be
called to account for permitting TINS
incursion.
The movement of troops to the
from continues A battalion of Kur-
dish and Albanian volunteers marched
through the streets of Peratavo on
the way to the railway station. The
men were cheered and appeared to
be in the best Of spirits.
AS a result of a meeting Thursday
of the heads OF the diplomatic mis-
sions to consider the situation in Con-
stantinople, the Marquis de PallaVona,
the Austro Hungarian ambassador
and dean of the diplomatic corps, TO-
day visited Noradunghian Etfendl, the
foreign minister, and called his atten-
ton to the necessity of adequate mea-
sures to maintain order in the city.
Among the measures the govern
ment has in nina in event OF further
Turkish reverses is the despatch OF an
army division to stop all fugitive sol
diers between Tcnatalja and Constan-
tinople The city at present is tram
Gull, business is proceeding as usual
though the keenest interest is being
taken in the military drama in the
Thracean hills.
Isssad Pasha, commander of the
Turkish forces at Scutari. telegraphine
under date of October 80 to the COM
mander of the Turkish corps at Sa
loniki said
Send me some Turkish troops. 1t
is impossible to hold out at this place
with Albanians alone" Essad Pasha
himself is an Albanian.
At Elbassan. town of 5000 in
hahitants siXty-four miles southeast
of Scuiari in the vilavet Of Moaastir,
only 5000 out of the Il 0,o0O Albanians
responded when called to the arms.
The Turkish comma nder there is ask
ing for Turkish troops.
The condition of refugees who are
arriving from Kirk-kilisseh and
Adranople is most pitiable. Some TO-
coo of them. including women and
children are camping in the court
Yards Of the mosques and there is
danger of an epidemic.
Three Turkish officers committed
suicide at Kilisseh when the
panic arising from the defeat of Turk
ish troops by the Bulgarians set in.
RUSSIAN BEAR GROWIS