Adrianople Turks Beaten Back Again.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 18, 1912:
Make Desperate Sally and Leave Thousands of Dead and Six Guns on the Field.
BESIEGING WORKS STRONG
Constructed independently, but So They Can Co-operate — Negotiations for Surrender Under Way.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, Nov. 18.— Bennet Burleigh, in a series of dispatches to The Daily Telegraph from Mustapha Pasha describes the progress of events in the siege of Adrianople. In a sally on Saturday morning the Turks lost six guns, which were captured by the Bulgarians, and also left many thousand dead on the field. The garrison tried to break out toward the southeast, evidently hoping to escape by rapid marching and unfrequented routes toward Tchatalja.
    "The Turks seem incapable," he says, "of realizing their truly desperate straits and that the battle-power has gone from their hands. The Bulgarians are now within field gun range of many parts of the city.
    "The Bulgarian military engineers have adopted an admirable system of constructing and placing their siege works. These — each so many self-inclosed and independent camps — are placed so as to command the approaches to the city, as well as the exits. They can either in attack or defense co-operate with the neighboring camps behind and all around the inclosing circuit of the besiegers' works. These camps are almost impossible nuts to crack in any sally. In addition there are lines of barbed wire everywhere. The morale of the besieging troops is splendid.
    "It is stated that negotiations have been proceeding with Adrianople with a view of saving the needless waste of life. The Turks have been told that the city will be taken by bombardment or assault unless it is surrendered. The terms will be discussed for a day or so. The Turks realize that the forts can be taken from them one after another.
    "In the capture of Marash and its works a few days ago the Turks left 3,000 dead upon the field but succeeded in carrying most of their wounded into the city, which now must be in a frightfully insanitary condition as well as in privation. In contrast, the roads from Mustapha Pasha to the front are being regularly cleaned and repaired under Bulgarian direction by peasants."