Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-24
BLOODY WAR IS
BEING FOUGHT
IN THE BALKANS
Portentous Battles are Be-
ing Waged on Every Side
of Peninsula Says Report;
Greek Army Victorious.

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London, Oct. 23.-Bloody, portent.
GUS battles are being fought on every
side of the Balkan peninsula today,
military experts believe. While the
allied armies of Bulgaria, Servia,
Montenegro and Greece have doubt,
skirmishes 1t remains to be seen
which side will be more successful In
the main theater Of war. Both Turks
and Bulgarians claim to be ad'
vancing In the vicinity of Adrianople.
Everything seems to indicate that
the Bulgarians haze deployed the
bulk of their main army from the
Mustapha Pasha-Adrianople line to
the Djumbala- Kirk Kilissehe line and
are attacking the Turkish front be-
tween the last named place and Ardi.
anople, while attacking the extreme
Turkish right. to the east of Kirk
Kilissehe. From this latter point re-
ports have reached here Of serious
conflicts.
The Servians continue their ad-
vance. One of their armies has taken
Prishtina and another is at the gates
of Kumanoya.
An oficial report by the Servian
commander says that the Turkish
troops after Offering q desperate re-
sistance are falling back along the
whole front.
Around the town of Novipazar brisk
fighting has been in progress for sew
eral days and the Servians are said
to have suffered severe losses. They
have captured some of the surround
ing towns, although Novipazar itself
is holding out.
Most Of the Servian successes have
been won over mixed forces Of Alban-
ian tribesmen and Turkish frregulars.
They will not come 4in contact with
tho trained Turkish troops until they
reach Uskup.
Greek official reports disagree as to
the situation on the Greek frontier.
One of them reports heavy fighting
on the road between the town Of
Elassona and the Turkish base at
the town of Servia, while another de-
clares that the Turks are in full re-
treat.
All the armies in the field are ham,
cases they have to bring the wounded
to the rear In slowly-moving OK carts.
A message here from Constantine
ople by indirect route and dated Oct
22, says the Turkish fleet has left q
torpedo boat flotilla to carry out the
blockade of the Bulgarian coast The
Turkish battleships, It says are lying
at the entrance to the Bosphorus, and
1t Is expected they are about to re-
turn to Constantinople and refit after
which they will 60 out into the Medi-
terranean and engage the Greek feet.
The Greek naval forces are divided
into three flotillas, one OF which as
sisted in the landing Of Greek troops
at Katarnina on the gulf of Salon
Xxi, another Is holding Lemnos and
a third is bombarding the Turkish
port Of Provesa.
Greeks Win Engagement.
Athens, Oct. 23.-The Greek army
defeated the Turkish troops this
morning beyond Elassona after Wig
orous attack and the Turks are now
retreatinE to the town of Servia. ac-
cording to dispatch from Crown
Prince Contantine Of Greece, COM
mand er.in-chief of the Greek army.
The crown prince telegraphs that
the Turkish army, composed of twen-
ty-two battalions of infantry and six
batteries OF artillery was compelled to
abandoned its position and retired
from the Greek onslaught. The order
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The crown prince has established his
headquarters at Khanhadjigogo.
Resumption Of battle which lasted
all day yesterday between strong
forces Of Turk and Greek troops on
the road from the Greek frontier be.
tween Elassona and the Turkish
headquarters at Servia, had been ex-
petted today.
General P. Danglis, the commander
of the Greek army, sent a dispatch
to the war Office from the Turkish
village OF Desanitza, timed $3.50 last
evening, saying:
"Our troops have approached the
Turkish position and remain there.
Only darkness stopped the battle,
which will be resumed tomorrow
morning."
PROPOSED INCREASE !.
RATE IS HELD UNJUST
Washington, D. c., Oct. 23.- Pro-
posed increases by transcontinental
railroads OF three cents hundred
pounds on barley from California,
and Utah, to Minneapolis and other
northwestern destinations, was held
today by the interstate commerce
commission to be unjustly discrimina-
tory against Minneapolis and unduly
preferential to Chicago.
The carriers will be directed to