The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-11-07
Turks Driven Back AL
most to Walls of
C~onstantinople
100000 ENGAGED
Constantinople in Tenor and
Refugees Dying from
Starvation

Budapest, hungary. - A battle
comparable with any in the worlds
history is drawing to its close before
the gates of C%onstantinoplc today.
On both sides. the BuIgarians and
Turks, nearly 800, 900 men have been
engaged. The fighting began ten days
ago and has ragged almost continu-
ousIy since. Military men here argue
that the losses on both sides will
approximately $4,000 e
NJ the latest accounts the fighting
WAS in progress completely across the
ConstantimopIc pensinsula and within
3o miles oil the capital itself.
n c~oncens,iS ot opinion was that
il is the turks last stand. The man
ner in which the troops have fought,
according to the mel Who Witnessed
parts OF the battle, was like nothing
seen hitherto i'm the history OF mod
"im Warfare.
taken for granted here h II the
Turks realizing hat their capital was
besieged and that n more defeat
would be their last, would fight to the
last man. General faith i'm the ot-
t0nian troops powers is now Shatter-
ed.
Tho events of today are
iIed as follows:
Terror rei2ned in Constantinople.
n,J ,nxl ..tIlnun nI.aNnII
Throughout Turkey.
The powers are rushing WarShipS
To the Turkish waters in fear of mas
sacsc : hut still bubble over inter-
yention terms.
Thousands of fri9htfully Wounded
pour into C%nnstantinople and Sofia.
S%ervianS and Greeks are close to
Monastior and Salonika.
MurShipS in the Ilarbor nay save
the foreigners by taking them on
board.
Just outside Constantincplc are
hundreds of thousands of refugees
from nciahboling villages who fed
toward the capital before Bulgarian
advances. They were not permitted
to enter. the city. however, but have
been reid in concentration camps ON
its edge. suVFvy
No p%retcnce was made of supply
ing them with food and today they
are starving by the hundreds of sheer
starvation.
London England. Graphic des-
criptions of the week long battle be
tween the Turks and RulSarlans III
the southeastern corner of the BAL
kan peninsula, are reaching London
today. Nearly 40, 600 men have been
engaged in the struggle, which is
still in progress. Fighting on the lett
wing of the Turkish army was lhe
most severe.
In their attack on Lulc, the Bull
garians found Rorgut Shefket Pasha
with his troops in a position on lnt
slopes behind the town. The battle
ragged %fiercely and uninterruptedll
and the losses were heavy. NO DIES
criptiOn oil the later Dallle nave 3c'
been received.
Sofia. Observation-Disclosures evacuat
ING Bunahissar. the Turkish troop:
shut UP two hundred ~Bulgarians II
the barracks and set fire TO the Dulld
ing, according to the news paper Mlr
All the Bul2arians persisted. inc
Turkish troops, according to the sam
paper. also massacred residents IL
Stuma valley.
Turks Claim Checking Bulgarians.
London, England.-The perpleN
;tv arising from the policy OF tn
Governments engaged i'm warfare II
southern Europe in totally excluding
newspaper correspondents from iii
zone of hostilities is more pronouhc
ed than ever ,day.
An extraordinary series of dlSpat
cbes from Nazzim Pasha, the TURK
ish commander in chief, claiming tina
tbe Turkish army had ~recapture
Renerhissar and was still holding IL
own against the Bulgarian adVanc
was published in Constantlnople las
night. In the absence oil mdependei
testimony, however, various assuh
ptions as to the accuracy OF ines
kilograms are possible. They may b
belated dispatches referring TO ear
stages OF the struggle or may D
mere representations for the benef
of the Turkish population.
On the other hand they mean thf
the Bulgarian victory was not as COZ
plete as was represented by Soma {
possibly the nine divisions OF TURKS
reserves, the reports OF yesterday Sd
had been ordered to the Turkish cel
ter. may be holding back the bui'
arian advance.
Except for the general statemel
that the Turks were retreatlng
Chataldja. fighting rear guard actle
no details of the battle was tort
coming from Sofia today, but the a
rival of 5000 wounded men in co
st%antinople tells it's own story OF Il
%sanguinary character of the encou
ter. Despite the optimistic repor
from the Turkish side it it not belle
ed here that the Turkish army CT
retrieve itself.
No Hope for Army.
Constantinople, Turkey. (via ku'
endje. Romenia.) "A Turkish ONO
who was at Kirk-kilisseh when 1t II