Bulgar Victory At Tchatalja.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 8, 1912:
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Friday, Nov. 8.— Once more the situation in the Balkans is obscured. There has been heavy fighting, in which both the Turks and the Bulgarians have lost heavily. That much only is clear. The rest is so far from certain that the widest field is left open to speculation.
    It is generally believed that the Bulgarians succeeded in part in their plan and effected an entrance into the Tchatalja lines at their eastern end, but the fact that no news of their complete victory has been received is taken to indicate that the Turkish resistance has been attended with greater success than might have been thought possible after the crushing defeat of Lule-Burgas.
    The ultimate triumph of Gen. Savoff's forces is considered beyond doubt. In fact, at the moment of writing this dispatch a telegram from Sofia intimates that it is already attained, and that the Bulgarians are in full possession of the Tchatalja lines.
    The Times's correspondent, who filed the telegram at 11:20 P.M. yesterday, says that the report is not officially confirmed, but this correspondent's dispatches have hitherto been so conservative that there is every reason to believe the correctness of this particular telegram.
    Another dispatch, of a more surprising character, is that sent by Charles E. Hands to The Daily Mail, reporting the fall of Adrianople. Mr. Hands, who was stationed at Sofia, journeyed to Bucharest in order to send off his telegram without the interference of the censorship, and though the reasons he gives for the unwillingness of the Bulgarian authorities to permit the news to become known are somewhat unconvincing, it must be assumed that he has not sent the report without good reason.
    On the whole, The Times's dispatch of the occupation of the Tchatalja lines appears more likely to be true at the present moment than The Daily Mail's report of the surrender of Adrianople. Both are eventual certainties.

Austria Vetoes Servian Plan.
    The past twenty-four hours, which brought little definite news of the progress of the war, were prolific with reports, some of which, like that of the Turkish abandonment.of Salonika, have been speedily shown to be false. Another, which appears based on more accurate information, is that Austria has definitely vetoed the opening of a port on the Adriatic to Servia.
    The Servian Premier has declared that his country wants three Adriatic ports — San Giovanni di Medua, Alessio, and Durazzo. The acquisition of an Adriatic port was, with the freeing of Old Servia from the Turkish yoke, the chief object of Servia in going to war, and Russian sympathy is entirely with the Slav kingdom in this particular.
    Austria's objections, which Vienna dispatches describe as definite and final, are likely to prove a stumbling block in the settlement of the territorial questions, which will keep Europe on tenterhooks long after the last shot has been fired in the present campaign.