Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-25
BELGRADE, servia, Nov. 2l-

| BELGRADE, Servia, Nov. 2l.-
Twenty thousand Turks who defended
the four days battle that preceded
the capture Of that city by the Servian
army. is the estimate today. The
Servian loss was almost as great.
In defense of the fortress the in
habitants of the city fought with the
/ Turkish regulars. They had been arm
ed with rifles provided by the regu-
lar army. The Turks had 100 heavy
guns.
The battle is described by some
officers as one of the bloodiest en-
counters of the war. 1t extended over
a line thirty miles long. The Turks
in reply to each assault the Servians
made, made fierce counter charges, but
always were repulscd.
LoNDoN.-A private telegram re-
ceived at Belgrade today reports that
Scutari has surrendered, according to
a dispatch to the Daily Telegraph.
Servian headquarters report the
Turks attempted to sortie from Adri-
anople yesterday inside of the Servian
division but were repulsed with great
loss.
The Daily Telegraph's correspond
ent at Scutari sends series of dis
patches the latest of which is dated
Nov i3, describing intermittent bonn
| kp, I,, a.
have killed numerous people and set
fire to buildings.
He says that although the price of
bread has risen considerably there
are still 5000 bags of flour in the
town. The difficulty, however, is the
scarcity of fuel for baging, there being
hardly any coal or wood left The
| government has requested all stocks Of
wood.
| The correspondent supposes the OBJ
ieet of the Montenegrin bombardment
is to induce the Turks to consume
their ammunition. The Turkish COM
mander, however, is on the alert and
has given orders that shells must not
be fred uselessly.
| BELGRADE.-The fighting that
| preceded the surrender of Monastir
lasted two days. The Servians had
occupied all the high points to the
northwest of the town. They brought
| up a large number of field batteries,
| Howitzers and other heavy guns.
| On Saturday a Servian division was
ordered to storm position west of
the town held by 10000 Turks with
| seventeen guns. Colonel Nedlich, com
mandng the Servian Moravia division,
was detailed for this occupation. He
| encountered great difficulties in the
marshy ground, but effectually pre-
vented the attempt of this section of
the Turks to break through the retreat
into Albania.
In the meantime the Servian right
wing swung round and seized the
Dolintze-Giawar road, cutting into the
Turkish line Of communication. The
Turks thus surrounded fought desper-
ately, and it is supposed that the ar
rival of the Greek army from the
south rendered surrender inevitable.
DENVER, Nov 21.-Showing not
the slightest trace of regret for their
| crime, one of the most brutal in To-
cal police history, Frank l.. Smith
and William Patrick Code, railroad
laborers told in detail how they shot
and beat to death Jesse II. StingIey,
an operative in the employ of the
DeLuce detective agency, at Utah
Junction, early on the morning of
Oct. "a, after he had caught them in
the act Of robbing one of the string
Of merchandise cars which he had
been detailed to guard.
The confession was made in the of
flee of Chief O'Neill shortly after the
| arrival in Denver of Smith, who was
arrested at Altus, Okla, last Monday
by Sheriff Herman Schloo of Adams
county.
The prewsome details were related
without the quiver Of an eyelash. In
addition to the story Of the murder
they told of FIVE box car robberies
which they committed previous to the
time of the killing and of how after
they had killed Stingley they burned
the stuff they had stolen in order to
do away with the evidence of their
guilt in the event they were suspected
and placed under arrest.
DENVER, Nov 19.-Vice President
Brown Of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, yesterday awarded to the
Utah Construction company of Ogden,
Utah, contract in the sum of 81 ,5o0,-
900 for the grading of the new dou-
ble-track detour line over Soldier Sum-
NIT, where the railroad crosses the
Wasatch range in Utah. This change
involves the building of fifteen miles
Of new line and reduces the grade
from 4 TO per cent. Construction
will commence at once, and contract
calls for completion Aug. l, 1918. The