The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-11-11
Further Positions In Front Of Con.
stsntInopIe Reported to
Have Fallen
GRAPHIC BATTLE DESCRIPTIONS

LOnuOn, NOV. ll.-Ine bulgarian at-
tack on the Tchatalja lines protecting
Constantinople goes on unrelentingly.
According to correspondent at the
front, further Turkish positions have
been. captured. but their location has
not been indicated. in accordance with
the. invariable Bulgarian plan to new
er reveal Information to the enemy,
There Is an unconfirmed report that
Honastir has been captured. This
and the capture Of Dibra, an impor-
tant town In Albania. by the Servians.
after heavy. fighting. constitute all
the. military news Of importance since
Saturday. A. p.
Some, idea of the bloody nature Of
the war may be formed from the fact
that It Is now estimated that one hun
dred and fifty thousand men have
been put out of action on both sides
since the opening of hostilities.
Grsphie Battle Descriptions. s..
hoIiS, .4yOss - - ~ kA abstAC 0CSeiiP
ton Of the storming by the Bulgarians
of TWO Turkish forts at Kurtkaitepe
snd Papaztepe. in the outer line of
fortihcations around Adrianople and
forwarded by correspondent Of the
Matin, declares. their capture seals the
doom of the Turkish stronghold.
Operations began at daybreak
Thursday. z, The Bulgarian infantry
advanced under murderous fire of
shrapnel The Turks sailed forth
from, The forts TO deliver the counter.
The Bulgarian siege artillery from
The surrounding hills rained a terrific
hail OF projectiles on the Turkish
troops. Every moment saw fresh COM
panies Of Turks marching out from
the city and the forts towards the
Bulgarians. who continued to draw
their lines closer around the forts. The
Turkish infantry resisted stubbornly
the Bulgarian advance. but their lines
gradually began To waver. Suddenly
The command. Fix bayonets." rang
cut from the Bulgarian officers. and
cheering wildly the Bulgarian infan-
Try dashed forward and the Turks
broke and retreated. At noon the Bull
sarian colors fiuttered over the fort OF
kurtkatepe. but Papaztepe still held
out Ntghtfall found the Turks and
Bulsarians stiil fighting.
Suddenly In the dense darkness a
long dazzling ray Of light shot across
the city from one of the crests held |
by the Bulsarians. bringing the fort
Of Papaztepe clearly into view. Then
from the fort itself another brilliant
ray shot out Cannon. and rifle fire, |
which had been slackening. again be- |
came brisk. Above the combatants
The searchlights flashed and whirled
an immense ray around In which lit
lie balls Of white smoke, caused by the
bursting OF shrapnel fioated like flies
IN sunbeam. making even deeper
The surrounding blackness which was
pupctuated here and there by flashes
from the nuxzles OF cannon. The fire |
rom The Papaztepe cort gradually be-
gan to slacken. Abruptly the search
lights were extinguished and the Bui-
'S''-'' suhdhtTy DeBdH 10 stOTn tno l
tort at the point Of the bayonet. Short
~ before midnight they became the
masters Of the position and the Turks
were In 6isht They left their dead
by hundreds on the field.
The fort on Papaztepe is one of the
most important. features OF the de-
lenses OF Adrianople 1t commands
not only the city itself but all the out
er works, Throughout the operations
the Bulsarian aeropianes few back
and forth over the Turkish forts.
bringing valuable information to the
suisarian generals In command.
The correspondent talked with some
oI the Turkish prisoners in the hands
VI me Rulkafians.. Many of them came
nom Asia and never before heard OF
huisaria. When the cause Of the war
was explained to them, one said: we
Knew nothing of that. At Brusa.
wnere we were recruited. we were
'o'u that, according 70 the law Of the
s.opnet we must 90 and fight the in
nae.s, that the hour to .exterminatc
'hem had arrived"