Turks' Retreat Cut Off Close To The Capital.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 29, 1912:
Railway Bridge at Tcherkesskeui, 50 Miles from Constantinople, Blown Up by Bulgars.
MUST FIGHT OR SURRENDER
Garrison at Adrianople Surrounded on All Sides — Battle May End the War.
A BIG SERVIAN VICTORY
Turkish Force Surrenders and 123 Guns Are Reported to Have Been Taken.
TURKS ARE DEMORALIZED
Unnerved by Their Terrible Losses — Whole Regiment Lays Down Arms.
GREEKS CONTINUE ADVANCE
Montenegrins Also Achieve More Successes and Turks' Retreat from Scutari Is Almost Cut Off.
By LIEUT. WEGENER.
Dispatch to The Vienna Reichspost.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    WITH THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE SECOND BULGARIAN ARMY, AT THE FRONT, Sunday, Oct. 27, 10 P.M.— The concentrated action of the Bulgarians against the Turkish eastern army makes steady progress despite the unfavorable weather.
    The Turks' retreat on Constantinople is already cut off. The railway from Constantinople to Lule-Burgas has been broken at Tcherkesskeui, only twelve miles northeast of Tchorlu, the Turkish headquarters, and fifty miles from Constantinople, and the railway bridge there over the Tchorlu River has been blown up.
    The Turkish Army has no other means of avoiding being totally surrounded than by accepting battle on the line of the River Erkene. This will  be the Turks' last fight.
    The strength of the Turkish forces in the region from Baba-Eski to Lule-Burgas is estimated at four army corps.
    About 150,000 men altogether are reported to have taken part in the battle of Kirk-Kilisseh, the greater part of whom, however, began to retreat on the night of Oct. 23, while one division and a half, by defending the positions at Kirk-Kilisseh, covered the retreat.
    On the heights of Jundala the rear guard of the defenders of Kirk-Kilisseh made a desperate resistance. At noon the Turks were dispersed in all directions and the greater number of them were cut off.

Turkish Army Demoralized.
    The prisoners say that the Turkish Army is greatly demoralized and that the officers are the first to throw up the sponge.
    The trophies taken by the Bulgarians at Kirk-Kilisseh include a diamond-studded sword of honor presented to Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish commander, by the Sultan.
    The fall of Adrianople is imminent. Some of the troops stationed there may yet be able to retire along the Maritza River to Demotika, but the rest of the garrison of 60,000 men are already cut off from retreat.
    The terrible losses suffered by the Turks in their recent sortie from Adrianople to the northeast demoralized the Sultan's troops, and one entire regiment laid down their arms without resistance.