Fresh Army Was Routed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 1, 1912:
Consisted of Anatolians Just Concentrated — Many Prisoners Captured.
By Frederick Palmer,
Special Correspondent of The New York Times.
    SOFIA, Oct. 31, 9:30 P. M,— It is now officially announced that the Turkish Army, comprising 150,000 freshly concentrated Anatolians, has been driven back after three days of fighting on the line from Lule-Burgas to Bunar-hissar.
    They are being closely pressed by the victorious Bulgarians, and have retreated to a new line, extending between Sarai and Tchorlu.
    The victors have captured a great number of prisoners and a large amount of war material.
    The losses of the Turkish Army, of which Nazim Pasha, the War Minister, was in command, have been heavy.
    Rodosto and Midia, the ports which have been used to disembark the Anatolian troops, are exposed to attack of the victors and must soon fall.
    All the Turkish forces to the westward are facing Greek and Servian armies and are isolated from the Constantinople base.
    After thirteen days of war Adrianople is under siege and fighting there has begun.
    The Bulgarians have advanced altogether sixty-five miles.
    The victories of the allied armies have hardly ever been surpassed, either as a military feat or in the endurance of the peasant and shepherd soldiers or the work of the commissariat. All reports agree that rations were always up with the fighting men.
    The feeling here is that peace will not come through the intervention of the powers, until Turkey sues for it, and the Bulgarians are confident that they will soon force her into that attitude.
    The Bulgarian reservists are responding to the call to the colors, and also many volunteers continue to arrive.
    They are promptly dispatched to the front. The Bulgarians think that the industrial development which will follow the war will keep those who have returned at home.
    Several Servian divisions passed through Sofia on the way to the siege of Adrianople to-day. With the Macedonian and Bulgarian volunteers. Bulgaria alone claims to be able to place 500,000 men in the field.