Turks Report Victories.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 29, 1912:
Elation at Consulate Here — Vice Consul Hissed by Greeks.
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.— Official dispatches from the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs received here to-day by the Turkish Ambassador are interpreted at the Embassy as news that the Bulgarians have been repulsed at Kirk-Kilisseh with heavy loss, and that the city has been retaken by the Turks.
    A Bulgarian defeat at Maras is also reported.
    An air of jubilation pervaded the Turkish Consulate at 59 Pearl Street, yesterday after the receipt of an official dispatch forwarded from Washington by Zia Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, reporting Bulgarian defeats. The dispatch was addressed to Djetal Bey, the Consul General, who is ill at his home at Atlantic Highlands, N. J., and was received in his absence by the Vice Consul, Aram Mourad Shah-Mir. The telegram was as follows:
    The Bulgarians having been defeated at Maras, the situation around Adrianople has been completely restored. The Bulgarians have also been repulsed at Kirk-Kilisseh with tremendous losses.
    The Vice Consul said: "From unofficial advices, which it has been impossible to confirm, the losses of the Bulgarians at Kirk-Kilisseh, which is reported to have been retaken by the Ottoman army, amount to 12,000 killed and wounded."
    While the Vice Consul was speaking cheers interrupted him from across the street, at Broad and Bridge Streets, where 500 Greek reservists were besieging the headquarters of the Pan-Hellenic Alliance. Mr. Shah-Mir beckoned the reporters to the window of his office and gazed upon the scene.
    "They are poor, ignorant peasants," he, said. "They have all been soldiers. They are going back to fight for reasons which they cannot explain. Their way is being paid by the Greek societies in this country. The Turkish volunteers and reservists are going at their own expense and receive only advice from the Consulate. I feel sorry for these Greeks, because they think that they are patriots.
    "I walked through that mob this afternoon on my way to the office, wishing to estimate their number and to judge for myself what the conditions were. I had every reason to believe that I was unknown to them and that I would not be recognized. When I was in the middle of the throng some one jeered at me, and the next moment every hand was extended, with fingers pointed at me in derision, and they were hissing at me like a flock of geese.
    "I believe that our successes which I have announced are only the beginning of a turn in the tide of warfare, and that when those people learn that the Turks have been victorious they will not be so anxious to go to the front."
    Mr. Shah-Mir added that he had received emissaries yesterday from 500 Turks in Canada and 200 now assembled in Philadelphia, who sought information as to the best manner in which to return to Constantinople. "I advised them," he said, "to sail for Cherbourg and proceed by rail to Vienna, whence they can go to Constanza, Roumania, and thence by water to Constantinople. They commissioned me to arrange for their passage, and the entire 700 will sail before the end of this week."