TURKS' REARGUARD VANQUISHED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5

TURKS' REARGUARD VANQUISHED.

THE GOVERNMENTS FINAL MOVE.

WILL GROSS TO ASIA MINOR.

ANOTHER 810 BATTLE APPROACHING.

Once/ again the Turks and Bulgarians have been in collision, and once again the Crescent was sunk before the Cross, the Ottoman rearguard haWng ■been defeated and forced to retire upon the main position at Chataldja. Here a great battle will probably be fought in the course of a day or two. Two Bulgar armies will here attack the Turks, and it is hardly possible, in view of the rapidity of the invaders' march, that their progress will be long stayed. Then the way to Constantinople will be opened. It is reported that when the capital is occupied the Sultnn's G-overnment will cross the Jiosphorus, and set up its house in Asia Minor, refusing u> sign treaties, and ieaving it to the alHes and the Powers to pacify the country. The fierceness of the Bulgarian atta-ck may be gauged by the fact that 36,000 wounded Turks have reached the capital, starving non-combatants are pouring into the city, and it is anticipated tha-t the mortality .by disease will be enormous. The Serbs are still driving the Turks through Albania and Macedonia, and have captured several important positions, while they are now close to Salonika, the port being completely invented. On the Montenegrin frontier the demand for the surrender of Scutari has been rejected, the commandant, Riza Bey, stating that he can hold out for three months. The men of the Black Mountain have captured Alessio and San Giovanni de Medua. A second a.ppeal to the Powers by the Porte has 'been rejected until all the bclligcren-ts are prepared to accept mediation. British battleships are steaming at full speed for Eastern waters, and a large body of bluejackets is to be landed in Constantinople,