Big Servian-Turkish Battle Near.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 23, 1912:
    LONDON, Wednesday, Oct. 23.— Telegrams received here indicate that an important battle is impending in the Kumanova district between the Servians and the troops under Zekki Pasha, who, according to a Constantinople report, which is probably exaggerated, has 100,000 men and strong artillery.
    The investment of Kumanova, says a Belgrade dispatch to The Times, has already begun. The united Servian and Bulgarian forces have occupied Kotchana and Kratova.
    All the divisions of the Montenegrin army concentrated south of Scutari are taking part in the attack on Tarabosch. A terrific bombardment, says a Podgoritza dispatch to The Daily Express, has occurred, and the greatest battle yet fought between the Turks and Montenegrins is now in progress.
    Grown Prince Danilo is personally commanding the operations. King Nicholas is advancing his headquarters to Antivari, on the southwestern side of Lake Scutari. Roads have been blasted in the mountainside to allow the passage of heavy artillery which has been mounted on the heights around Tarabosch.
    A dispatch from Sofia to The Daily Express says that a big battle has been raging around Kirk-Kilisseh for two days. It is reported that the line of Turkish defenses between that city and Adrianople has been broken by the Bulgarians.
    A Stara-Zagora dispatch says that news which has reached there confirms the impression that the allied armies have taken the initiative with vigor and complete success. Amazing progress has been made along the whole line, and events must develop rapidly.

Greeks Too Impetuous.
    Wiring from Larissa, a correspondent of The Daily Mail describes the capture of Elassona. He says that the impetuosity of the Greek frontal attack prevented the completion of a flanking movement behind Tsaritsena to cut off the Turkish retreat. Otherwise 3,000 Turks would have been captured,
    An Athens dispatch reports the safe arrival at Piraeus of the four destroyers purchased in England.
    The Daily Express understands that Gen. Sir John French has been recalled to London from Denver, supposedly in connection with the Balkan war.
    Greek armies have crossed the Turkish frontier at two points. In Epirus, at the western end, they have occupied the heights of Grimbovo, while at the eastern end they are pursuing the Turkish troops to their base at Servía, where an important battle is expected, and the taking of which by the Greeks would carry them appreciably nearer to the Monastir-Salonika road.
    Greek troops were landed yesterday at Katerina, on Turkish territory, in the Gulf of Salonika, about seventy miles from Salonika, according to a news agency dispatch from Constantinople.
    In naval matters the honors so far are with the Greeks, who have captured Lemnos, thus obtaining a base from which they can attack the Turkish squadron should it ever emerge from the Dardanelles. Seemingly, however, the Turks are not disposed to leave the Black Sea and risk an encounter with the Greek fleet.