Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-10-30
THE FIGHTING HAS BEGUN
NEWS rs CAREFULLY SUPPRESS
Ed AND THE WORLD is
LEFT GUESSING
ALLIES ARE HARD PRESSED
INDICATIONS ARE THAT BALKAN
TROOPS HAVE STRUCK
A sNAe.

London, Oct. 3O.-A big battle, per-
haps the decisive one Of the war, is
proceeding somewhere to the east Of
the line from Constantinople to Ad-
rianople, between the Turkish and
Bulgarian armies and heavy fighting
also is taking place around Adrian
ople itself.
Beyond the fact that a clash has
come, however, the general staffs Of
the Turkish and Bulgarian armies are
keeping the outside world ignorant
as to how things are going with
them. No news has come through
from the scene of action, except the
dispatch from Nazim Pasha, the Turk
ish commander in chief, saying: THE
position is favorable to the Turks.
While admitting that they have to
depend on mere rumors and suposi-
tions, military critics here are IN
clined to believe that the Turkish
army is at last ready to take the Of
fensive and has chance Of retriev-
ing itself.
The Bulgarian troops have obvious
" suffered d,oaesA Ia ghe vicinity 81
Adrianople, as dispatches from Sofia
report the arrival there of many
wounded from the front and it is an
nounced that the Bulgarian plan OF
storming the great fortress has been
delayed until reinforcements arrive,
The Turkish commanders plan is
not clear, but it is believed that he
will attempt to relieve Adrianople
and its garrison of $4,000 while at
the same time holding the Bulgarians
on the left flank. The rumors that
Bulgarian troops mad reached the sea
are unconfirmed
zeekki Pasha is gathering the rem
nants Of his army at Monastir to meet
the advancing servians and the allied
Bulgarian columns 1t is thought he
may make another Plevna Of Monastir
and prepare himself there for a long
siege.
The failure of the ex-sultan, Abdul
Hamid, to arrive at Constantinople
whittier he was being removed from
/ Salonilli, seems to confirm the report
that the railroad between these Two
cities also had been interrupted.
From Belgrade came reports that
the Servian victory over the Turks at
veles was accomplished by the caval-
ry which divided the Turkish force,
while the Servian artillery drove
them from the positions. Turkish
troops defeated by the Servians and
Montenegrin's in the district Of Novi-
pazar are arriving in hundreds in
Bosnia, having crossed the frontier
Colonel Charles A. Court-Repington,
one Of the best informed military
writer's, in an article in the Times
today after silence since october
rs. says that the military situation il
the Balkans had been so hopelessly
confused that It had been useless to
attempt any appreciation Of 1t.
/ If she is not victorious in q
decisive battle at Adrianople, Tur
i key is sure to sue for peace, accord
i ing to George H. Moses, former Uni
ed States minister to Greece. In the
course Of an interview today he said
@The terms of peace will be die
tated by the Balkan allies without
hindrance from the powers. Th'
terms will agree with those laid dowr
in the note sent by the Balkan ma
tions to the Porte before the declara
ton Of war, with the important ex
ceptions that the Balkan nations will
hold all the territory conquered b.
them and will exercise suzerainty
over the other Christian districts d
European Turkey
"The Balkan allies are probabl,