The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-04

At Kumonova the Turkish loss was
placed at 1000.
Around Soutari the best informa-
tion was that the Turks Lave had in
the neighhorhood of 1900 shot and
the Montenegrins twice as many.
In the small engagements and
skirmishes before and after the battle
of Kumanova and in Novabazar it was
estimated that the Turks lost 5000
and the Servians 5000.
The Turko-Greek fighting has not
been very severe as yet, but in the
! various small engagements authorities
believed 1t safe to place the losses at
1000 on each side
How many non-combatants the
Turks have massacred In their various
retreats could hardly even be guessed.
Greek advices would run the figure
high into the thousands.
Unquestionably scores OF entire
villages have been wiped out. The
| fighting men we're all under arms. and
only the aged and inflrm women and
children were left to kill. The actual
fact Of these massacres was less hor-
lribIe than the frightful cruelties which
accompanied them. The Turks were
mot satisfied with butchering their
victims. They tortured and mutilat-
i ed them first. The women were sub
ljected to every imaginable indignity,
children were slowly killed before
! ~ 4, ,,yc pd
were Topped OH. eyes gouged out and
men, women and children burned
alive.
Bulgarian Cleanup.
BERLIN, Nov. 4--Either by exter-
mination or capture. the Bulgarians
4 today had practically cleared eastern
1 Turkey of Ottoman troops down to the
4 last line OF defenses thirty miles west
4 of Constantinople, according to reli'
/ able information from the field Of the
1 Balkan war.
How large proportion of his army
of approximately 100000 men Nazim
! Pasha succeeded in getting back tc
and behind the Chatalja Notifications
was not positively known here, but
military authorities said they would
be surprised If he saved more rhar
half his force.
While the Turks main strength al
Lule Burgas was still fighting, the
Bulgarians were crumpling UP the
Turkish east wing in the vicinity O
, Visa and striving to get between Luls
, Burgas and Constantinople, SO as t.
cut off the arny's retreat. Until full
er details can be received 1t canno
, be told how we'll this attempt sue
ceeded.
II Turkish reports that the Creek
. we're meeting with vigorous oTposl
! ton In their march on SaloniSa ap
peared today to have been like 81
many Constantinoplo rumors, who'll,
haseless.
: The news that the Salonika author
! tiles had decided to surrender as 500,
as the Greeks arrived came from
salonika itself and was accepted a
authentic A Greek force unde
9 Grown Prince Constantine at lates
2 accounts was at Jenidge, only twenty
: five miles west Of Salonika, and an
! other force under General Smolensk
: was at Pcligyra, twenty-five mile
southeast of 1t.
Several other Turkish towns wer
reported to have fallen into Gree
hands over Saturday and Sunday. II
: Guiding Prevesa, on the Gulf Of Arts
where the Greek fleet made ITS firf
:, demonstration.
: 1t was said that the cre- Of tn
Turkish torpedo boat destroyed b
: the Creeks ship fire off Preva e.
d capped.
J OF the operations OF the servia
troops, little has been heard In tn
% mast few days, beyond the assertion
i telegraphed from Belgrade, that the
W were rapidly occupying fresh teri
10 tory and expected shortly to join tn
IGreeks in an attack on Monastir
IA An unconfirmed report here, tn
=. origin of which could not be trace
st credited Essad Pasha with the decl
10 ration that he intended to hold SCI