Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-10-28
TURkO-bULGAR|AN
BAT TIE GOING ON
Lines Of Hostile Armies
Stretch From Adrianople
To Black Sea.
BOTH CLAIM VICTORY,
Balkan Allies Warn Powers They
Will Not Make Peace Without Di-
viding European Turkey.

Berlin, Oct. 2S.-The Turko-Bulga
rian fighting line extended today
from Adrianople nearly to the Black
Sea, according to the best information
obtained from the front.
Fierce fighting was reported from
Both Safia and Constantinople, AS
usual both sides claimed the advan-
tage.
Properly speaking, the same gener-
al engagement has been raging since
last Wednesday morning. The con-
flict has sometimes been hottest at
one point and at other times in anoth-
er, but has really been single great
battle extending along front almost
100 miles long and now we'll on its
sixth day
Adrianople in desperate plight, was
still holding out, at latest accounts.
Operations against it was hampered,
Sofia dispatches said, by heavy rain.
The Turks continued to claim the re-
capture of Kirk Kalissa and the Bull
garians to deny it strenuously. The
Bulgarian version was generally ac-
cepted here as true.
The Turks, on their side, deny that
the Bulgarians have captured Eskl
Baha. The report of the towns fall
seems we'll authenticated. If true,
it means that the Adrianople force
has been cut off from communications
with the main Turkish army at the
rear and the Bulgarians can deal
with them separately.
A Constantinople telegram declares
that ths, Turks have routed the Bal
parian Left wing at Visa, near the
Black Sea and that prospects are Tor
the speedy crumpling of the entire
line backward, compelling Car Ferdl-
nand's forces to retreat preclpltate-
ly ecross the frontier.
Vienna, Oct. 2s.-A Turkish rout Of
the Bulgarian's left wing was report
eded in dispatches from Constant
nople today. That Kirk Kalissa has
been recaptured by the Ottoman
troops was also asserted in messages
from the Sultan's capital. The Bul-
aarian government has issued an en-
nhatic denial of the latter claim.
Belgrade, Oct. 2S.-Now that Pms
tina Uskub and Istib have fallen In
n the hands of the combined Ser
Wan and Bulgarian forces operations
in western Turkey, it was said here
todav that the allies intend to strike
south for salonike. If they succeed
in establishing themselves along this
front they will have cut off approx
mately half of European Turkey from
Constantinople. There are still lur-
lisb troops in the region where the
Invaders have won their victories thus
far but they are badly demorallzed
Rome. Oct. 2s.-Queen Helena a
Montenegrina princess has received
word from Cettinje saying positiVel!
and unqualifedly that Mon;enegrins
have recaptured Scutari, it was re-
ported here today. =.
Paris, Oct. 2s.-The Balkan aliieS
have notified the powers that VneS
will listen to no pleas for restora-
tion of peace with the Sultan except
IN the basis of division Of prac-
tically the whole of European turkey
among themselves, according to a
renort on good diplomatic authority
here today. All that they are Wiling
q leave of the Ottoman empire on
\ this side of the Bosphorus Is Con
}stantinople and small district sur
rounding it, it was said.
y The allies plan is to extend Bull
oaria south to the Aegean Sea, to
piye Scrvia an Adriatic seaport and to
hand northern Albania over to Monte
negro. The rest of Albania and Mace
\ donia they propose to transfor mlnec
two independent municipalities united
nv close alliance with the rest OF
the league.
Austria, it is understood, has en-
tirely abandoned negotiations with
the other powers looking toward IN
tervention in the Balkan struggle ant
is in communication with the capital
of Bulgaria, seryia. Montenegro
and Greece in an effort to convinc