The Prescott daily news., 1912-11-01
TURKS DEFEATED
 IN BALKAN BAT TIE
SOFIA OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES DECISIVE VICTORY AT
 LULE BURGAS.
100000 TROOPS ARE ROUTE
Unless Fleeing Mohammedans Make Another Stand on Narrow Penin- suIa, Invaders Will Be Unop-
 posed in March on Capital.

Vienna, Nov. 1.-The Bulgarian
 main army has overwhelmingly de- feated the Turks after three days
 battle 40 miles southeast of Adrian ople, and Nazim Pasha's 100000 men are in full flight from Lue Burgas,
 with Bulgarian cavalry harassing them from the rear, an official an nouncement from the war office at | Sofia says.
 At no time since the beginning of the Balkan war have official reports
 from Sofa been greatly overdrawn, and the report from the Bulgarian | capital is accepted generally here as substantially accurate. Lule Burgas was a Turkish military headquarters. The Turks claimed some small sue | cesses farther east near the Black
 Sea coast, but they were of trifling | importance compared with the demor-
 alization of the main Turkish army,
 wEich alone has opposed the Bulga- rian advance toward Constantinople. Maxim Pasha's Next Stand. That Nazim Pasha will try to rally his men for a last stand, 45 or 50 miles west of Constantinople, across l the narrow peninsula on which the capital is situated, was the belief of military men here. His line, if he chooses his position well, need not be more than 30 miles long, and by mass | ing his entire force to protect it, ex- perts believed, he might offer a des- lperate resistance for a few days more. Even Turkeys friends here have practically abandoned hope Few Aus trian authorities believed that it will l be more than a week before the Bull Parians are in control of the sultan's capital It was agreed that their oc- cupaton of it will mark the end of Ottoman rule in Europe, though Con-
 stantinople itself and few square miles of territory west of it may be | left to the sultan from which to ad- minister his Asiatic possessions. Notification of rumors that Adrian ople has fallen were lacking, but the best military judges thought them ulSHlg pIODdDle' il io poheNSu lHoI the Turks now are penned by the Bull garians inside the triangular patch of territory bounded on the northeast by the Black Sea, on the south by the BOsphorus and the Sea of Marmora, and on the northwest by line of Bull
 garian bayonets stretching from the Gulf of India, in the Black Sea, to
 Rodosto, on the Sea of Marmora. It
 was rumored, not verified, that Ro- dosto had been captured
 Scutar Resists Montenegrins.
 Little was learned of the situation in western Turkey, but the few dis patches received from Belgrade and Athens reported uninterrupted ad- vances by both Servians and Greeks.
 Within the next day or two, 1t is ex- pected, they will be in complete con- trol of Macedonia and all of Albania
 except Scutari. where the Turks were
 still hoding out, and were said to have repulsed a Montenegrin assault. 300 of the assailers being slain.
 Austria is negotiating directly with
 Servia concerning a division of the Turkish territory for which both coun- tries are greedy, according to reports current in diplomatic circles here.
 The Vienna government is not so jealous of Bulgaria, Montenegro or Greece as of Servia, because the three countries first named are not so anx- l ious for territorial acquisitions in To- ealities which Austria considers its own special sphere of influence. Aus tria and Servia, however, want prac- tically the same districts.
 Reports Are Conflicting.
 The latest reports conflict with ear Her word to the effect that Russia has represented the Balkan governments in negotiations with Austria. It is possible, however, that a separate Russo-Austrian agreement has been reached. It was again rumored that the powers are arranging a general conference concerning Balkan affairs. to be held shortly in Paris.
 A dispatch from Belgrade says strong resentment was displayed in government circles there over reports that Austria and Russia have com missioned Roumania to veto what may be considered excessive demands by