Monday, November 5, 2012

Turks Again Repulsed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 5, 1912:
Prussian Officer Killed by His Own Men After Battle of Lule-Burgas.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 5.— The Turkish Army, occupying the line from Tchorlu to Istrandja, was repulsed yesterday by the Bulgarians on the eastern flank, according to a news agency dispatch from Sofia.
    A dispatch from Belgrade to The Standard gives a report that a Servian force has reached the neighborhood of Antivari, on the coast of Montenegro. If this is true, the Servians will join with the Montenegrins in the attack on Scutari.
    A Vranya dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company says that the concentration of the Servian forces has been completed and that the advance on Monastir and Salonika has commenced. The Third Army is advancing westward toward Durazzo, and another division, starting from Novi-Bazar, is approaching Scutari. Gen. Stephanovitch, with another large force, is marching to form a junction with the Bulgarians besieging Adrianople.
    A Mustapha Pasha dispatch to The Morning Post says it is officially stated that twenty battalions of Turks, supported by artillery, made a sortie along both banks of the Maritza River, west of Adrianople. The battle lasted all day. The Bulgarians made a vigorous counter-attack and drove the Turks back with heavy losses.
    The Bulgarians complain of serious breaches of the rules of war, alleging that the Turks use the white flag to entice the enemy into danger.

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