The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-28
ALKAN WAR IS
A BLOODY one
i, Estimated That 25,ooo People
| Have Been Killed Already and
Trouble Has just
Started.
|oNFLICTING REPORTS
Iar News Is Carefully Doctored Be.
fore Being cIvsn Out and the
Real Truth Is Hard
70 Get.
Today in the Balkans

Today in the Balkans.
Turko- Bulgarian battis raging along |
ont from Adrianople to Black sea,
Eith both sides claiming advantages
Ind capture and recapture OF towns.
Balkan allies warn powers they
Eill not make peace without dividing
European Turkey. Austria in scramble
or territory.
Servians' capture Of Mitrovitza gives
turkeys western invaders front ex-
Eeeding 100 miles.
Turks court martial commanders OF
beaten forces.
Scutari's fall persistently reported.
Roumania growing alarmed.
BERLIN, Oct. 2S.The Turko- Bull
Earian fighting line extended today
rom Adrianople nearly to the Black
6es. according to the best information
bbtainable from the front
Fierce fighting was reported, both
hom Sofia and Constantinople. As
Usual, both sides claimed the advant-
bge,
The same general engagement has
been raging since last Wednesday
morning along a front almost 100
miles long.
Adrianople was still holding out, at
atest accounts. Operations against 1t
were hampered BY heavy rain. The
TURKS continued to claim the recap
nre 81 Kirk Kilfssa and the Bull
garians to deny 1t.
The Turks deny that the Bulgarians
have captured Eskf Baba The re-.
port OF the towns fall seems well au-
thenticated. 4 true, the Adrianople
force has been cut off from COM
nunication with the main Turkish
hrmy.
A Constantinople telegram declares
the Turks 1ayo routed the Bulgarian
left wing at Visa, near the Black Sea.
The speedy routing OF the entire line
backward is expected, compelling
Gar Ferdinand's forces to retreat
heross the frontier.
1t is estimated that about $4,000
we're killed and wounded on both
Eides up to the time OF Kirk Kilissa's
fsll. Since then there have been
Further casualties. The Turks place
fhe number OF killed on both sides
about Visa alone at 1000.
Confirmation had not been received
fere today Of Saturday nights report
taat the Montenegrins had captured
Scutari.
servlans Win.
VRANJE, Servia, Oct. 2S.-The
servians today occupied the Turkish
town Of Mitroyitza, in the sanjak of
Noylbazar. Mitrovitza is the northern
terminus Of the railroad running
northwest out of Salonika It's cap
lure gives the combined Servian and
hungarian forces a front more than
luo miles long extending from Nitro
vita In a southeasterly direction to
lstib, more than half the distance to
salonika. Ratochamk mountain pass
also fell into the Servians' hands,
With fifteen Turkish cannon.
Start South Now.
BELGRADE, Oct. 28.-Now that
frlstina, Uskub and Istib have fallen
in'o the hands of the combined Serv-
'an and Bulgarian forces operating In
sestern Turkey, 1t was said here to
uay that the allies intend to strike
south for Salonika. n they succeed
y establishing themselves along this
iront they will have cut off approx
nately half of European Turkey from
uonstantinople. There are still Turk
sh troops in the region where the
Invaders have won their victories
mus far, but they are badly demoral
azed
Queen Gets Word.
ROME, Oct. 2S. Queen Helena, /
Montenegrin princess, has received
word from Cettinje, saying positivel,
ana unqualifiedly that the Monteneg
rms have captured Scutari, it was re
ported here today.
Editors Are Mad.
LONDON, Oct. 2S.- British and Eu
Eopean continental editors wer'
breathing vengeance against the Bul
sarian government today becaus
lieutenant Wigener, Austria's mill
ary attache and correspondent TO