The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-01
JOY AND SORROW.

Sofia, Nov. 1.-The Bulgarian capital was given over to a carnival of the widest rejoicing today. The people believe the war with Turkey practical ly over The masses did not under stand the danger of interference by. the powers and assumed that the whole of Turkey will be divided up among the Balkan allies immediately.
 The only depressing feature was the news of enormous losses at the front and the presence of continuous stream of wounded.
 The hospitals overflowed, public buildings were pressed into service and private hospitals were thrown open for hospital purposes There were not enough doctors, medical supplies were exhausted and practically the whole feminine population volunteered as
 As the cost of Bulgarian victory be- gins to be more fully appreciated to- day it Is believed there will be a re- duction of the expressive Joy. So far however, there have been no signs of it.
 General savoff. who led the BuIgar- ta-ns, was the hero of the hour H1a popularity seemed even greater than Czar F'erdinand's., Pictures of him have been posted everywhere and cheering crowds surround them
 The Turks did not retreat from Lula Burgas, 1t Was said. but fled ,fell--nelL Thousands of them -rFessa cesrfs4 Cd and. they ran An enormous quantity of guns, ammunition and supplies fell i'm to the Bu1garians' hands
 Reports of the capture of Maxim Pasha, the Turkish war minister, who commanded the Sultan's troops. had not been confirmed but the people ac- scepted them as true.
 Vienna, Nov. 1-grhe sultan's Europ- can dominions were represented today as g. high foreign office official here expressed it, by a little patch of ter ritory about 40 miles long by 30 wide. bounded on the north by the Black Sea, on the east by the Bosphorus. on the south by the Sea of Marmora ian bayonets-
 Though this was not literally true, it nsacb mas practicay bsr d s1 There There TSrs 9thsF European Turkey, which the allies have not yet occupied. From all ap- pearances, however, the Constantfnople have not either taken possession of or cannot take possession of as rapidly as they are able. to distribute troops. Two mere speclxs there were which are today holding polIt- Al irfanop4e and Scutari-but even they cannot hold out long.
 off from his territories-or former ter ritories-beyond that line of Bulgarian bayonets. He was cut off from them almost entirely, except possibly by sea, and no certainty that this avenue was not cut off too, for the Greek WarBhips have been used as effectively against the TurKS the lew times they. nave been used at all, as the Greek troops
 In the west, the Servians and GreelE1 have either conquered or are plainly on the eve of conquering everything between the Montenegrin, Servian and Bulgarian frontiers on the north the Turko-Greek frontier on the south, the Aegean Sea on the west and on the east a line drawn from the WeBt coast off the Gulf of Salonika. due north to the Bulgarian frontier.
 Between the eastern district in the Bulgarian possession and the western district in the possession of the Ser Vians and Greeks is a strip 190 miles long by 60 wide which the allies have not yet entered. as least in any mum bers. This strip. as soon as the Bull garians have pacified the east and the Servfans and Greeks the west, the al- lies will have no trouble occupying between them. This is, of course, as- suming that the powers do not inter fere.