The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-18
Correspondent Describes Scene

London, November 1s-The Times cor respondent at the Tohatalja lines tele- graphs:
 The Bulgarians unmasked their ar- tillery positions at daybreak and opened fire along the front from the Hamidien forts at Papas Burgas. This is the first real endeavor they have made against the Turkish lines.
 The position the Bulgarians have se- lected Is fronted on the left by the Papas Burgas marshes and on the right by the gradual glacis of the two Hsmldieh forts. The Turkish front is connected by trenches, worked into the alignment of the old forti1cations.
 'All the permanent works have heavy Krupp guns in emplacement and other iarge calbre guns have been mounted in the recently constructed works facing tue Papas Burgas valley. Above these, field artillery batteries are dug in at in- tervals all along the line which is a plain series of redans
 The Turks also have placed trenches in front of the permanent works in which the infantry are disposed.
 The Bulgarian artillery positions are not so advantageous, as the Bulgarians have been forced to avail themselves of the under-features of the seml-pla- teaux at the foot of Tchatalja ridge There appeared to be three batteries in action against the Papas Burgas front and seven in front of the Hamidieh group.
 Wonderful Spectacle
 "The opening of the battle was a won- derful spectacle. The black fee of the Bulgarians' position sparkled with flashes Some of the Turkish heavy guns fired black powder. The bursting of heavy shells soon raised curtain of smoke, which mingled with the morning n.sit rolled majestically down the valley be- tween the combatants.
 "A Turkish warship in the bay Joined the concert, firing its heaviest guns in broadside. capping the Bulgarian right with great pillars of squirting mud and fire.
 Tt was certainly the heaviest artillery combat since the Japanese massed the corps of artillery that pounded Grekors rear guard of Lfoyang.
 Working my way under the shrapnel fire, I discovered that during the night the Bulgarian infantry had passed down under cover of the banks of the Karasu and were trying to take possession of the upper loop of the railway. Small groups of Bulgarians rose out of the sheftering banks and advanced cautiously and slowly.
 The Turkish gunners found them nice- ly, and the attempt failed.
 Bulgarian Attempt Fails
 The whirr of machine guns and the crash of infantry magazine fire in the direction of the Hamideh forts told us that another infantry effort was being made there. but the fire died down and as there was no movement on the part of the Turkish reserves. it was presumed that this attempt had also failed
 This was 10 o'clock in the morning The Armament was still ringing with the crack of shrapneLand the dull revrebrations of heavy ordnance. The Bulgarians scorcned us heavily, but the shrapnel burst high, and in my part of the field. there were but few casual ties.
 Tn my vicinity the Turkish infantry were very snug, and unless ordered to man the works, the men were cheerily munching bread. carloads of which ar rived during the engagement
 Toward II o'clock there was a luil and as could not make out the slight est movement, among the Turkish re- serves. 1t seemed to me that the Bull garians had found their undertaking less easy than they had anticipated. It certainly looked if the taking of this Turkish position on the left will only be by the slow process of stealing posi- tions under cover of heavy artillery"
 Outbreak of Cholera
 Constantinople, November 1s.-(By Indirect Route )--There are now more than a thousand cases of cholera daily in and around Consta ntinople and the death rate has reached 50 per cent. The authorities are powerless to cope with the situation.
 On Thursday last 5000 cholera pa- tients arrived by train at San Stefano. They would have been brought here. but for the protests of the railway com pany and the Austrian ambassador, who asked that they be sent to the I.aza- rettos at Becos and Ismide
 For 24 hours the patients remained in tho train on a siding at San Stefano without water, food or medical atten-