Bombardment of Kavarna.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 22, 1912:
    SOFIA, Oct. 21.— There are renewed reports here to-night that Kirk-Kilisseh, near Adrianople, has been captured by the Bulgarians.
    Turkish warships to-day bombarded the Bulgarian fort of Kavarna. The custom house was destroyed, and several shops and dwellings were damaged. Kavarna is on the Black Sea, twenty-eight miles northeast of Varna.
    After the bombardment of Kavarna one of the Turkish warships sailed in the direction of Baltjik. Four others cruised along the coast, between Kavarna and Kalikoia, bombarding the villages.
    According to advices received late this evening, Turkish warships also bombarded the barracks and monastery at Euxinograd, near Varna, which port they bombarded several days ago. The Custom House and two warehouses were also damaged.
    The Turks attempted a landing, but two boats launched encountered a heavy fire from the Bulgarian soldiers, and returned to the ships.
    The Bulgarian Government has entered a protest against the bombardment of Kavarna as a violation of the principles of international law laid down by The Hague Conference. The town is a trading port only, and is not defended. No warning was given of the attack.
    The newspapers to-night report the bombardment and capture of Losengrad by the Bulgarians, after several hours' desperate fighting, and also the capture of Tchirmen, an important point six miles to the west of Adrianople.
    The advance posts of the Bulgarian Army, besides penetrating to the immediate vicinity of the important strategical point of Kirk-Kilisseh, which is the headquarters of the Turkish Third Army Corps, are also in touch with the line of outer forts surrounding Adrianople, where another Turkish army corps is stationed. They to-day occupied the village of Vakoruda, in the District of Razlog.
    A semi-official statement dealing with the progress of the campaign says:
    "The Bulgarian troops are advancing in all directions, while the Turkish troops are stricken with panic and are retiring in disorder, abandoning their rifles, howitzers, ammunition, and provisions.
    "The Turkish peasants are leaving their homes, and in certain villages small Turkish children whose parents have disappeared have been found wandering, and are now being cared for by the Bulgarian soldiers.
    "At Mustapha-Pasha the Bulgarian troops seized 100 tons of grain.
    "Up to the present not a single Bulgarian soldier has been made prisoner by the Turks. The Ottoman prisoners taken by the Bulgarians are being well treated." In order to preserve secrecy as to the movements of the army, the most positive orders have been issued to the Bulgarian officers and men that matters connected with the war and with the military operations must not be referred to even in private letters.
    The Military Attachés, including Lieut. Sherman Miles, the American Attaché at Bucharest, together with the war correspondents, proceeded to-day to the Bulgarian headquarters, at Starazagora.