BATTLE AT CHATALJA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1704, 22 March 1913, Page 5

BATTLE AT CHATALJA.

desperate: engagement.

BOTH CLAIM SUCCESS. By Telec ranh—Pi 'ess Association—Ooryrinlit (Rec. Mi arch 21, 5.5 p.m.) Ccinstantinoplo, March 20. It is officially slated that a dosperato infantry battle Is in progress at Chatalja, where the Turks are engaging the Bulgarians' whole' line. . The Turks liavo advanced five kilometres to the north of Derk'os, and have occupied many strategical' points. (Rec. March 21, 5.5 p.m.) Sofia, March. 20. Five divisions of Turks at Chaialja, with artillery and cavalry, attempted to advance supported by the Turkish war-' ships, but wero routed with hfeavy loss. Two battalions wore,isolated and driven to the shore, where a portion of them escaped to the ships. • ■

(Rec. March 22, 0.80 a.m.) Sofia, March 20. Tho attack' on. tho Bulgarian centra at Chatalja' was repulsed. Five hundred Turks were killed oa- woundsd. SERVIAN TRANSPORTS SAIL. (Ecc. March 21, 5.5 p.m.) Salonika, Jlarch 20. Sixteen transports, with 13,000' Servian infantry aboard, have 6ailed for San Giovanni, on tho Adriatic Sea. IN SEARCH OF A PRINCE. (Bee, March 21, 5.5 p.m.) Constantinople, March 21. Tlio Government is expelling eight Albanians, who havo been conducting a ■propaganda to secure a European princo to rule .Albania. Tho Committee of Union and Progress desire a Moslem prince. NTJNS KILLED AT SCUTARI. (Rec. March 21, 5.5 p.m.) Vienna, March 20. The "Reichpost" reports that eight Italian nuns, acting as nurses, have been killed, and several wounded, during tho bombardment of Scutari.