Turks' Relief Force Met Grave Disaster.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 12, 1913:
Two Divisions, Attempting to Succor Bulair, Driven Back with Great Slaughter.
LEFT 5,500 DEAD ON FIELD
Bulgarian Pursued Panic-Stricken Foes as They Re-embarked — 10,000 Turks Wounded.
    SOFIA, Feb. 11.— More detailed accounts of the Bulair battle on the Gallipoli Peninsula show that it was a complete disaster for the Turks, 2,500 of whom were buried by the Bulgarians, while 3,000 Turkish corpses were left scattered over the battlefield. According to reports received here nearly 10,000 Turks were wounded. The Bulgarians are intrenching their positions before Bulair.
    The Turkish disembarkation of two divisions at Charkeui occupied two days. At 6 o'clock on the morning of the third day the Bulgarians attacked them fiercely and in the afternoon, finding themselves in danger of being surrounded, the Turks fled in panic. They regained the shore with difficulty, pursued by Bulgarian infantry and artillery. Their reembarcation was effected in great disorder under the protection of the guns of the Turkish warships.
    When the remnants of the Turkish forces were aboard the ships, the flotilla steamed away.
    Several thousand Turks fell in a battle before the Tchatalja lines on Feb. 9. A report says that the Bulgarian Army, having repulsed several Turkish attacks along the Tchatalja lines, except on the extreme right flank, where the Christian troops were exposed to a convergent fire from the Turkish warships in the Sea of Marmora and the Gulf of Buyuk Chekmedje, retired to fresh positions five or six miles to the rear.
    The losses of the Bulgarians were insignificant, while those of the Turks amounted to several thousand men, mainly due to the excellently directed Bulgarian shell fire.