Servians Claim Capture of Shukri.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 30, 1913:
    BELGRADE, March 29.— The honor of capturing Shukri Pasha, the Turkish Commander in Chief of Adrianople, with his headquarters staff, belongs to the Twentieth Servian Regiment of Infantry.
    An official statement, issued here today, said that Shukri Pasha, two other Turkish Generals, 22 field officers, and 150 junior officers were in Hadurluk fort, northwest of the city, when the Servian regiment stormed and captured it. On the following day Shukri Pasha was handed over by the Servians to Gen. Nikola Ivanoff, the Bulgarian Commander in Chief. Seventeen thousand Ottoman troops also surrendered to the Servians, and the quantity of war material captured by them in the taking of the city was enormous.
    The Bulgarian, headquarters staff has been informed that Servian co-operation with the Bulgarian troops is no longer necessary in the opinion of Servia, and the withdrawal of the Servian forces from the vicinity of Adrianople will begin to-day.