Tighter Grip On Adrianople.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 20, 1912:
Bulgars Steadily Move Closer to Turks' Many Forts.
    LONDON Wednesday, Nov. 20.— Bennet Burleigh, correspondent of The Dally Telegraph, wiring Monday, says: I witnessed the bombardment of the Adrianople forts to east and north of the city. The firing was not heavy, but accurate. The besiegers are not attempting to break or destroy the city, but are devoting their attention solely to the demolition of the Turkish works, of which many interlines of trenches and bastions have been constructed. The bombproofs are legion. The Turks have artfully concealed their gun positions, and most of their fire is delivered from batteries securely hidden far behind the front.
    "They must have worked very hard and skillfully to construct such a honeycombing of the terrain around Adrianople. But irresistibly the Bulgarians are advancing — always contracting their steel halter. The Turks again attempted a sortie to-day to the eastward. Fighting desperately, they strove to pass out by the Turkish cemetery roadway, but the Bulgarian gunners and infantry beat them back into Adrianople. They left rows of dead. The Bulgarians were able to follow the enemy up and move their lines of attack still closer to the masses of ramparts, bastions, and trenches."