Turks' Losses Enormous.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 7, 1912:
    SOFIA, Nov. 6.— The Turkish Army commanded by Nazim Pasha was completely crushed in the great battle of the, last two days on the Sarai-Tchorlu line.
    According to the semi-official Mir, the Turks lost in killed and wounded more than double the losses at Lule-Burgas,
    The Bulgarians are now pursuing the defeated enemy.
    The sanguinary character of the recent engagements, which, it is reported, involved losses to the Turks of 40,000 men, was due to the extraordinary energy of the Bulgarian attack. The view of the Bulgarian Staff is that the Turks are so demoralized that frontal attacks may be undertaken even against the strongest positions without superior forces, and the Turkish shortage of artillery and ammunition has contributed to the success of these tactics.
    The Bulgarian vanguard, it is said, has reached Lake Derkas, one detachment passing between the lake and the sea.
    Another line of the Bulgarian advance is reported to be attacking the forts in front of the town of Tchatalja, while still another column, which marched down the main road from Tchorlu to Silivri, is now advancing to Bogados for the purpose of forcing a passage along the coast of the Sea of Marmora.
    These, however, are only flying columns. The main body has not yet commenced the attack on the Tchatalja fortifications.
    In the five days' fighting in the vicinity of Lule-Burgas and Bunar-Hissar the Bulgarian troops captured thirty-seven batteries of quick-firing guns and took 2,000 prisoners. They also seized four locomotives and 243 railroad cars. Regular communication has been restored between Lule-Burgas and Kirk-Kilisseh by railroad.
    The Bulgarian Army in Macedonia is advancing rapidly down the valley of the Struma. The troops have occupied the Rupel Pass and are continuing their march upon the town of Serres.
    According to statements made by prominent public men in Sofia, Bulgaria will reject mediation until Tchatalja has been captured and Adrianople has fallen, and, although it is said that an entry into Constantinople is no part of the allies' plan, Bulgaria will not listen to the suggestion of peace negotiations unless Turkey gives an undertaking to bring no more reinforcements from Asia.
    Gen. Savoff, the Bulgarian Commander in Chief, reports that after the battle of Kirk-Kilisseh a Turkish officer was captured bearing a letter from his Commander, Mahmud Mukhtar, to his father, then the Grand Vizier, advising him to resign in favor of Kiamil Pasha and to conclude peace, as the condition of the army was so desperate that it was useless to continue the war.