Turkish Denial Of Defeats.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 26, 1912:
Story of Fall of Kirk-Kilisseh Called Fiction.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 25.— It is still maintained here that the reported capture of Kirk-Kilisseh by the Bulgarians is fiction; that communications with that city are still working regularly, and the Turkish troops are holding all their positions between Kirk-Kilisseh and Adrianople.
    The Turks, according to these accounts, have 150,000 of their finest fighters on the line from Kirk-Kilisseh to Adrianople, which is garrisoned by another 60,000 men. Still another 60,000 men guard the line from Adrianople back to Lule Burgas.
    Abdullah Pasha, Commander in Chief of the Turkish forces, declared some time ago that the troops at his disposal were sufficient, and since then the great stream of fresh troops has been directed toward Salonika.
    A dispatch from Adrianople, timed 3 o'clock this afternoon, reports that all is tranquil there, and says no firing has taken place since yesterday. All the inhabitants who are not supplied with two months' food have been advised to leave the city.
    Stories of desperate hand-to-hand fighting between Bulgarians and Turks are told in dispatches from Adrianople. Great losses were sustained by both armies in the battles around that city on Tuesday and Wednesday.
    Bayonets were used freely in the fight for the possession of the banks of the Tundja River, and hundreds were killed and wounded.
    Pathetic scenes are being witnessed at the Constantinople railway stations, where there is a dally influx of aged refugees and children from the frontier villages. All of them have a bewildered look and carry bundles containing their poor belongings. Four thousand refugees from Adrianople and Kirk-Kilisseh arrived here to-day.
    The Sultan to-day had an audience of the Minister of War and the Minister of Works, previous to 'their departure for the front. The departure of the foreign Military attachés for the seat of war has again been postponed, this time to next Monday.
    Tramway service in Constantinople has been suspended, and all the horses have been requisitioned for the purposes of war.