The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-29
WHEREABOUTS OF TURKISH ARMY |SAT PRESENT UNKNOWN AdrianOple May Prove to Be as Vulnerable as
 Kirk-Kilisseh
LITTLE IS KNOWN OF
 TROOP MOVEMENTS
Turkish War Minister Reviews Opera tions Along the Eastern Line. Turks Must Take Offensive
 to Retrieve Many Defeats

London, October 4-An interesting question at the present moment is the whereabouts of the Turkish army, of which nothing definite is known. The news that Eski- Baba has been taken by the Bulgarian cavalry apparently with out resistance shows that Nazim Pasha army Is not where it was supposed to have been-on the line between Kuleli- burgas and Dpleburgas.s4It may be fur. | ther west. in the direction Of Dcmotica. but 1t is generally supposed it has rec tired from inc line of the railway and entrenched itself on the long line from Demotica to Chorlu.
 The town of Bunarhissar, says Sofia dispatch to the Times. will form point in the outer line of Bulgarian positions surrounding Adrianople, which will bs drawn through Demotica and ortakoi- an envcloping movement which would
 isolate Abdulah Pashas army or compel
 1t to retreat to the westward.
 Meanwhile, the Rhodope army. under General Kovatcheff. advancing by way of Novrokop down the valley of the River Mesta Karausu. will approach the railway line further west. A third party Is re- ported to have reached Istip, although this is not officially confirmed, and is expected to poin the Servian army and advance towards Monastir.
 Adrianople Is Vulnerable
 An important decision remains to be taken regarding Adrianople. The troops investing the town are enocuntering great difficulties because the surrounding coun- try is inundated by overflow of the rivers Maritza, Tundja and Arda. as result of heavy rains. The floods also impede transport of provisions.
 Further developments largely depend on Abrullah's plans and pitched fbattled seems in prospect But the general move rnents of the Turks already have been much hampered by repulses on the right wing. The Bulgarans have to decide whether fin view of the effect produced on their own troops and on the Turks by the fall of Kirk -kilisseh the psycholog- ical moment has not arrived to attempt to storm the fortress.
 In the opinion of some of the foreign military experts Adrianople may be found as vulnerable as kirk-Kilisseh, inasmueh as the Notifications though laid out by the German officers, were constructed hy Turkish contractors and may prove of doubtful solldity for resisting artil- lery fire.
 London, October 2S,--The Montene- grins are still besieging Scutari and Tarakosch. hampered by the Turks stubborn resistance today. The Greeks have put forward the claim that the portion of Turkey in which the HeI- lenic crown prince Is operating must fall to them if, as a war sequence. there Is dividing of the Ottoman empire.
 No confirmation of report that the Turks had recaptured Kirk Kilissef from the Bulgarians today has been received. The report is believed to be repetition of the official statement made in Constantinople on Friday that the capture of Kirk -kilisseh by the Bulgarians was fictitlon. No credence is attached here to the report
 First reports not censored giving de tails of the battle at Kirk Ki ilisseh saying Turkish force started out yes terday with the intention of surprising the Bulgarian troops The night was dark and after the corps had been split and the movement launched it was discovered the Bulgarians were too strong. The Ottoman troops then, after midnight sent forward one or their columns to aid skirmishing line which was infiieting big casualties. Soon both forces yielded quickly. 1t was reported one Turkish corps was decim2ted.
 Few Reports Received
 Since the capture of Eski-Baba by Bulgarian troops few reports have been received from that region where Tur- keys future may be decided within few days, according to todays gist vf advices.
 short Sofia dispatch says the Bull garians have seized Turkish military train on the way from Constantinople to AdrianopIe. This indicates that the Bull garian invaders nave cut the railroad isolating Adrianople from it's base thereby accomplishing one of the greatest strokes in strategy
 The Bulgarians have been pushing for lCentinned e Pags NiAe.l