New York Times 100 years ago today, November 6, 1912:
Bulgarians Believed to Have Taken Tchatalja Forts and to Have Clear Road to Constantinople.
SAVOFF HAS 200,000 MEN
Ottoman Troops Fewer Than 100,000, Are Panic-Stricken, and Under-Officered.
PORTE FEARS MASSACRES
Asks the Powers to Send Two Warships Each, Instead of One, Through the Dardanelles.
COMPLICATIONS SEEM NEAR
Austria Reported to be Determined to Prevent Servia from Getting Albania.
TURKS MAY GO TO ASIA
If Again Defeated Government Will Abandon Constantinople and Let Powers Arrange Matters.
SOFIA, Wednesday, Nov. 6.— The Turks have suffered another severe defeat between Sarai and Tchorlu.
The losses on both sides far exceeded those at the battle of Lule-Burgas.
The fighting in this battle lasted two days, and the Turks offered desperate resistance.
This information was conveyed in official reports received here at midnight.
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