Great Battle Due Around Adrianople.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 22, 1912:
Bulgars Close to City — Capture of Kirk-Kilisseh and 20,000 Men Reported.
LEMNOS SEIZED BY GREEKS
Turks Shell a Bulgarian Port — Servian Regiment Said to Have Been Annihilated by Mines.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Oct. 22.— There is very little real fighting in the Balkan war to record. The armies have not yet got into touch, and what fighting is reported has been largely in the nature of skirmishes.
    But signs of the imminence of a great battle multiply. The war correspondents and Military Attachés have now gone to the front with the Bulgarian  Army. This is taken as an indication that the concentration of troops before the battle is now complete.
    According to official news published in Sofia, the Bulgarian troops are continuing their advance along the whole line. The advance guards, having got within touch of the fortifications around Adrianople, are now directing their attention to Kirk-Kilisseh as a preliminary to a great assault on Adrianople.
    It is estimated that the Bulgarians, with the Servian contingent whose presence with the main Bulgarian force has been reported, should muster at least 325,000 men, with 600 field guns. The Turks should be able to place 200,000 men in line, with 300 guns.
    There is a hint in one Sofia dispatch that the Bulgarians are aiming to destroy the railway south of Adrianople, thus cutting off that town from Constantinople.
    In other quarters minor Bulgarian columns are developing an attack against the Salonika-Constantinople Railway, which is only second in importance to the Adrianople Constantinople line. Yet another column is marching down the Struma Valley, and, with the aid of the guerrilla chief, Sandansky, is said to have inflicted heavy loss on a small Turkish force south of the Servian frontier.

Turkish-Servian Battle Near.
    An important battle is also imminent between the Turks and Servians. The Servian main army, pushing down the railway from Ristovatz, has outposts close to Kumanovo. A large Turkish force is marching on Kumanovo, and a decisive action in this quarter of the field cannot long be delayed.
    A telegram from Vienna says it is announced from Salonika that Zekki Pasha has concentrated 100,000 men at Kumanovo, with numerous artillery and machine guns. The Servians also have probably 100,000 men.
    The Greeks are reported in a telegram from Athens to have seized the Island of Lemnos, near the mouth of the Dardanelles.
    The Turkish fleet in the Black Sea has bombarded the little Bulgarian port of Kavarna, and, according to a Constantinople dispatch, has sunk a Bulgarian torpedo boat off Varna.
    From Constantinople also comes the information that the General Staff will not proceed to Adrianople and the front before Thursday. The war correspondents will start to-night. Hence it is gathered that the Turkish military authorities do not expect anything decisive before the end of the week. According to The Times's Constantinople correspondent, Turkey will be able to mobilize 700,000 men in European Turkey by the end of the month.