No Quarter At Adrianople.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 15, 1912:
Bennet Burleigh Describes Conflicts — Bulgars Fight Like Furies.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Friday, Nov. 15.— Bennet Burleigh, in a series of dispatches to The Daily Telegraph which carry the news of Adrianople up to Wednesday morning, gives some vivid pictures of the siege by the allies. The capture of Chair-Tepe Fort, already reported in Lieut. Wagner's dispatches, is thus described:
    "The Bulgarians determined upon further bayonet charges and directed their attention upon the north and west of Chair-Tepe and the other works marked down for assault. The storming battalions, who had first attended divine worship, stripped off and oiled up their superfluous coats and baggage in the trenches and made ready, linesmen and reservists in common, for a furious charge.
    "Then the Turks precipitated things by attempting to make another sally to the west and south. An inferno broke loose. The Turks came on, not knowing what was in store for them. The lines of their levies advanced, anxious to regain lost ground, particularly near Marash. They first raked the Bulgarian lines with their artillery and then with rifle fire, which raged continuously.
    "Bulgaria was ready. Her gunners fired in all directions under perfect control. The tornado of artillery must have appalled as well as smitten and devastated the lost Turks. Though they struggled with hopeless frenzy, the Bulgarian gunners bore down all appearance even of Turkish opposition. But still the bombardment continued, and riotously the Turks hurried to their bombproofs and safest quarters.
    "It was then about 10 o'clock at night. The Bulgarian infantry ran in with the bayonet. There was wild, terrible work, and no wish to ask for or to give quarter. Here were men whose homes and offspring had been harrowed by scenes of blood and conflagration by these Turks.
    "Such of the Turks as could fled from the victorious troops into Adrianople, but they left un awful trail of dead and dying on the field." Another encounter is thus described: "The Turks made a prolonged sally to the northeast, fighting what was almost a pitched battle. In trying to relieve the pressure from the Bulgarian forces, the Turks hurried onward at first with great hardihood, their field guns searching the hillsides and crests with shrapnel, while the infantry fired tremendous volleys with rifles. The Turkish infantry's assault was further supported by Maxims and pompoms.
    "The Bulgarians, who were busily constructing siege batteries in that vicinity, paid relatively little attention to the advancing, noisy Turks. Very soon, however, battalions ran forward at the double and soon stopped the Turks' attempt to gain the summit of the hills.
    "Perhaps the Turks also had the intention of trying to recover their lost ground by the junction of the Arda and Maritza Rivers, but they lacked strength sind courage for that herculean task. Instead, I saw the gallant Bulgarian reservists clambering and bounding up a shoulder of a hill by the Maritza like goats. There were not more than 500 of these resolute Bulgars. They gained a flanking position upon the Turks' right, and then, as if inspired by one impulse, poured over the ridge and smote the sorely smitten Turks like incarnate furies.
    "The enemy stampeded, running with all their might to the northeast. Subsequently other Bulgarian troops and guns headed the wretched Turks, and they came back like driven cattle under cover of their remaining fort to the streets of Adrianople. "
    The Turks' losses can be put down at thousands in killed and wounded."