Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-10-12
TROOPS LOSE POSITION
Balkan Soldiers Now Hold Fort Dom
mating the Town Of Tushi.
ENTRENCH ON sCHIPCINCK HILL
Road to North Now Cleared and Open
to Advance Of Montenegrins.
STUBBORN RESISTANCE OFFERED
Assault After Assault of Advancing
Forces Are RepuIsed, but with
Persistent Attacks Invad-
ers Win a Victory.

PODGORITZA, Montenegro, Oct. H.
The Montenegrin troops followed up their
success in capturing Detchitch mountain
from the Turks by taking late last even-
ing the Turkish fort which dominates the
town of Tushi from schipcinck hill.
The Turks offered a stubborn resist
I ance, but the Montenegrins succeeded in
rushing the position after several furious
assaults that the Turks repulsed.
Both forces suffered heavy losses in
killed and wounded. The fighting lasted
y fourteen hours. The road to the Turkish
/ town of Tushi from the north is now open
to the advance of the Montenegrin army.
Fighting still in Progress.
! CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct f1.-Fighting
/ between the Turkish and Montenegrin
troops was still in progress this morning
in the region of Tushi to the north Of
Scutari No further details have reached
here.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE fall of the Turk
ish city Of Scutar is imminent. Unless
Turkish reinforcements arrive soon the
town, with its manufactures of firearms
- will be taken by the advancing Montene-
grin army. The Ottoman government
took lightly Montenegrin threats and the
Turkish military authorities were not pre-
pared on that frontier as on the Servian
and Bulgarian borders. Hence the re-
ported continued success of the King
Nicholas forces.
The Montenegrins followed up their
success by capturing yesterday the fort
guarding Tushi, thus improving the road
for an advance on Scutari, and an Off
cial telegram received by the consul gen.
eral of Montenegro in London says the
advance has begun. 1t Is pointed out
here however, that the way cannot be
Travelled without serious fighting, as the
Albanians In the vicinity have been
aroused by Turkish emissaries and are
expected to join the Ottoman troops.
News from other parts Of the Montene-
grin frontier is more conflicting.
If. as is generally believed, Montenegro
precipitated Its declaration Of war as a
part of strategy Of the the Balkan allies.
unpreparedness Of Turkey on its frontier
must have influenced Its decision.
Capture Turkish BIoclxhouses.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 11.A dis
patch from Podgoritza, Montenegro, says
Che Montenegrin southern army under
command of General Martinovitch. has
crossed the Boyana river and captured
several Turkish blockhouses at Tarakosch,
near the Turkish town of scutari.
The Russian minister Of marine has
postponed his proposed visit to Paris In
view of possible complications in the
Black sea.
still Hope for Peace.
VIENNA, Austria, Oct 11.-Emperor
Francis Joseph in the course of a conver-
sation with prominent parsonage at the
palace yesterday said
II hope that peace may still be pre-
served"
Abandon Visit to Turkey.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct IL The Amer
lean military commission has abandoned
its proposed visit to Turkey Brigadier
General Edward j. McClernand and other
officers today watched the cavalry
maneuvers in the vicinity of Moscow.
They intend to proceed shortly to Vienna.
Paris Bourse Panicky.
PARIS, Oct. ia panicky feeling pre-
vailed today at the opening Of the Paris
Bourse and heavy falls were almost gen
eral. Rentes dropped 65 centimes (i3
cents) Rio Tintos opened at 1901, loss
of Sc points. but later recovered to 1907.
Baku petroleum dropped 100 points. Turk
ish and Servian stocks fell sharply.
On the Berlin Bourse.
BERLIN, let. 1.-THE uncertainty of
the Balkan situation caused an all
around decline of from to 10 points on
the Berlin Bourse today. Canadian Pa
cities fell points.
Greece is Expecting War.
ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 11.-Princess
Alice. wife Of Prince Andrew Of Greece.
has decided to leave at once for the
frontier with d. number of nurses.
AL the Indications here point to war.
A cabinet meeting lasting several hours
was held today, under the presidency of
the king.