The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-01

Berlin, Nov. 1-Mf1itary men here
 were positively shocked, today, at the
 completeness of the defeat which it
 was reported the Turks have finally
 Earians.
 The Turkish army was trained on
 tTerman lines and by German instruc-
 tors, with the great soldier General
 Von Dertholz at their head, while the
 Balkan states military education has
 been mainly in the hands of French offlcers so that the outcome, in it's
 way, is distinct blow at German
 prestige.
 Latest reports here were to the ef-
 feet that the Turkish commanders
 were rallying their disorganized forces
 for another stand across the peninsula
 at the extremity of which Constanti- they were forming along a line ex-
 tending from Rodoeto, on the Sea of
 Marmora, to Midia, on the Black Sea. According to another account they had
 been driven by the Bulgarians back upon Constantinople's last line of de- lenses, crossing a still narrower part
 of the paninsula, approximately from SAivarie. on the Sea of Marmora to
 Derkos, near the Black Sea coast only 30 miles west of the capital. In either case, the same outcome was expected-another Bulgarian vic- tory, except that there probably will be two fights if the former position Is be- ing defended and only one if it is the latter
 Fighting, today's dispatches said, was again in progress or perhaps has
 been going on uninferruptedly ever
 Indeed. German experts generally looked the encounters which have been taking place since last Wednes- day. when the two armies clashed at Kirk Kilisseh, as different parts of
 the same big engagement
 Of Adrianople's fall definite news
 taken in the matter here since the city
 has either been lost by the Turks it
 was said. or is about to be lost.
 S NOT 1,1nd many details of Wednesday's
 ceived but of what happened, Iast week, in the vicinity of Adrianople and Kirk kilisseh accounts were com era1ly wounded BuIgarians or Turks The Turkish soldiers evidently fought well at the outset but became un- Officers fought their own men fllr1- ously when they. began to retreat, gal loping up and down the retreating | ranks in an effort to force them again to resume the fight, blowing out the brairs of many fugitives with their pistols, cutting down otffefs with their swords and clrsang them wildly. SThe raw recruits were so panic stricken that nothing could stay their flight when it once started.
 The Bulgarian cavalry followed the successive routs hotly, striving to | scatter; them and complete their de-
 mcraIization, the artillery meantime pouring a hail of shots into the brok- en columns and moving it's victims l down sometimes by entire companies. The resistance offered by the train ed Turks wrought desperate havoc. Several tried Ottoman regiments were
 wiped out almost to a man, it is said, rather than surrender.
 The Greeks were close to Salonixa, according to latest accounts and news of the capture of the city was hour ly expected. The Turkish force there l was said to be weak and badly dis organized.
 The Servians, it was said, were meeting with practically no opposition in their advance on Monastir, while a
 fTo1nd from the opposite % direction Al Mons
 astir there may be q fierce fight as most of the regiments of the western Turkish army have been assembled there. Scutari, it was stated, today, was still holding out against the Montene- grins.