TURKS' LAST LINE BROKEN

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 8 November 1912, Page 5

TURKS' LAST LINE BROKEN

ARMY DRIVEN FROM CHATALDJA.

ROAD TO CONSTANTINOPLE OPEN.

HORRORS OF THE BATTLEFIELD.

DREADFUL MASSACRES AT RODOSTO.

Tlie uninterrupted scries of successes to th« Bulgarian arms continues, and the Ottoman army has again been driven from its entrenchments—this time from Chataldja, only 25 miles due east of the capital. The forces of Xazim Pasha have made their last stand in the open, and must now fall back on the capital. '„• This is not the only loss suffered by the Turks, the Bulgars ,• having marched southward to the sea. capturing the port of Rodosto, and eastwards across the Istrandja, Dagh to Visa. The siege of Adrianople is nowvery close, fifty thousand Serbs having pone to tie assistance of the. Bulga.rs. The belea.gured area looks like, a deserted city to those outside it, save for the fitful work of the defenders' guns, -which occasionally disturb the surrounding scenery without hurting the Bulgars, who are withholding their fire till the final brush. It is reported that the losses in the two-day battle over the long line from Tchnrlu to Ferai were heavier than at l.ule Burgas, where 15,000 men were killr.l or wounded in the army of the invaders, and 40,000 on the Turkish side The sufferings of the wounded on the battlefields have lx-en terrible, many having been left to lie wounded entirely without attention, owing to the insufficiency n{ doctors and nurses. The Turks have been firing ou the Red Cross parties. j The cordon is now drawn fairly tightly round Salonika, and the army of Macedonia, under Fethi Pasha, which was opposing the Greek advance, has withdrawn into the town, which is overcrowded by the presence of 150,000 j The retreating Turks nre keeping up their record for massacres, and at Rodosto. prior to the Bulgarian occupation, ruthless slaughter was witnessed. The town was set on fire, and helpless children were thrown into the flames. I Servia is insisting on her right tn a port on the Adriatic, a proposition to which Austria is strongly opposed. The allies are of opinion that they should be left to divide the spoil ag they think fit. though King Nicholas of Montenegro thinks they can please Europe in the process.