Fears Siege Of Adrianople.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 22, 1912:
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 21.— It is admitted here to-night that the Bulgarians are established about twelve miles from Adrianople and that a big battle is imminent.
    The Governor of Adrianople has issued a proclamation warning the residents to husband their food owing to the possibility of an investment of the town. He recommends those able to depart to do so.
    It is announced that an important concentration of the Bulgarian forces has taken place at Kostendil, in the southeast of Bulgaria, the objective of which is doubtless the Struma Valley, which is the easiest road to the heart of Macedonia.
    Official information concerning a Bulgarian reverse says that the Bulgarians concentrated at Hanlar, in the Dospat region, were induced to advance into Ottoman territory by a feigned retreat of the Turks. A strong Turkish force then suddenly attacked the left wing of the Bulgarians, who suffered heavily.
    A dispatch to a Constantinople paper says that the Turkish warships have sunk a Bulgarian torpedo boat, while another escaped by taking refuge in the harbor of Varna. The forts replied to the Turks and eventually silenced their fire.
    According to information received by the Porte, Albanian volunteers under ex-Deputy Hassan Bey of Pristina have joined the advanced body of Albanians marching on Kurshumli, Servia, thirty miles south of Nish, in the neighborhood of which town severe fighting is now going on.
    Several Turkish successes on the Eastern frontier of Montenegro are reported in dispatches from Salonika. Sharp fighting occurred in the districts of Grevitza, Kirchiska, and Ogra-Kimineh, where the Montenegrins retreated with a loss of six officers and fifteen men killed. The Turkish casualties were two killed. The Turks captured some, ammunition and tents from the Montenegrins.
    It is asserted that in the fighting around Elassona the Greeks lost 1,500 killed.
    The Turkish Government to-morrow will issue a proclamation to the people of the European provinces as a reply to King Ferdinand's manifesto, enjoining the Moslems to good behavior and assuríng the Christians that they have nothing to fear provided they remain loyal.