Nazim Pasha's Fate.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 1, 1912:
    LONDON, Friday, Nov. 1.— Nazim Pasha, the Turkish Minister of War and Commander in Chief in Thrace, has been either shot or taken prisoner according to a dispatch from Sofia to The Morning Post.
    This is the latest news received here in regard to the four days' battle in Thrace which has ended in the triumph of the Bulgarian Commander in Chief, Gen. Ivanoff, whose skillful strategy has probably brought to a close one of the shortest and most remarkable wars on record.
    A great Turkish Army, estimated at over 200,000 men, has been defeated and is in retreat. Constantinople is believed to be at the mercy of the victorious Bulgarian Army, and a council, sitting at the Porte, is discussing the advisability of suing for peace.
    Such is the news which comes from Constantinople.
    It is only a fortnight since Turkey declared war. The first week of the campaign closed with the dramatic fall of Kirk-Kilisseh, fully revealing for the first time the disorganization, bad morale, and inefficient commissariat of the Turkish Army. To-day that army is defeated, routed within fifty miles of Constantinople, and possibly its retreat within the capital's line of defenses is cut off.
    Only the briefest and vaguest accounts of the great battle have yet been received, for the war has been especially remarkable in that not a single war correspondent has been allowed at the front except in the case of the little Montenegrin campaign against Scutari. Thus no independent personal narrative of the absorbing events has been possible, and the world has had to depend on biased official accounts provided by the respective governments or confused details supplied by wounded soldiers.

The Turks Outmanoeuvred.
    Apparently Nazim was completely outmanoeuvred by Ivanoff's skillful generalship, The Bulgarian turning movement along the Black Sea Coast now appears to have been a feint, which induced the Turkish commander to throw his main army to the eastward, to such effect that the Bulgarian force on that side had the greatest difficulty in holding the Turks in check. In fact, this point seems a little in doubt. The Bulgarians gave way, and thus enabled Nazim Pasha to report to Constantinople some success in this direction.
    In the meantime, however, Gen. Ivanoff hurled his great strength against the Turks' weakened left wing, which he crushed in at Lule-Burgas. The fighting along the whole front, which evidently has been of the most stubborn and determined character, was carried on day and night without intermission, and both sides lost heavily.
    The capture of Nazim Pasha's headquarters at Tchorlu, to which town the defeated Turks retreated, has not as yet been reported, but is hourly expected at Sofia.
    In this case the Turks will be forced within the defensive lines of Tchatalja, the only remaining fortified position protecting Constantinople. It lies 25 miles to the northwest of the capital.
    Adrianople still holds out, but has lost its importance now that the Turks have met their Sedan at Lule-Burgas. The campaign of Servia, Greece, and Montenegro continues with the success which throughout has attended them. Scutari has not yet been captured, but Ipek has fallen to the Montenegrins. The Servians have taken Prisrend, and Greece is occupying islands in the Aegean, in addition, to various towns in Macedonia.
    A noticeable feature of the war is the insignificant parts played by the Turkish and Greek fleets.