TURKISH SORTIE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1912, Page 7

TURKISH SORTIE

VIOLENT ATTACK *ON MONTENEGRINS. (Received December 5, 8.10 a.m.) CETTINJE, 4th December. Turks sortied violently and attacked the. Montenegrin positions, but were repulsed with many dead. A PITCHED BATTLE IN TORRENTIAL RAIN. GROUND STREWITwiTH CORPSES. (Received December 5, 8.5 a.m.) CETTINJE, 4th December. A sortie on the left flank early on Monday gradually developed into a pitched battle, which lasted for twenty-eight hours in spite of torrential rain. When the Turks left the entrenched cover, the Montenegrins held their fire, j then the rifles, and artillery and machineguns decimated the Turks ranks. The artillery on both sides was engaged throughout the night. The ground was strewn with corpses. Shells did great damage to the town, fire breaking out at several points. The people were panic-stricken. The Montenegrins' losses wero small. CHATALDEJA WOUNDED EXCELLENT WORK BY RED CROSS NURSES. INDICATIONS OF DUM DUM BULLETS BEING USED. (Received December 6, 8.10 a.m.) SOFIA, 4th December. The wounded from Chataldeja are coming to Kirk Kib'sseh in great numbers. 'die British Red Cross nurses are doing excellent work although their resources are overtaxed. There are indications of dumdumm dum bullet injuries. MISS ALT BREAKS DOWN. (Received- December 5, 8.5 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE,, 4th Dec. Miss Alt, the English lady, formerly, one of Lord Dufferin's nurses, who has

been undertaking Red Cross work at the San Stefano cholera camp, has broken down through overwork. TROUBLE IN SOLONIKA FRICTION BETWEEN GREEKS AND BULGARS. LONDON, 4th December. The DailyTolegvaph's Salonika correspondent has sent a censored message which shows that the Greeks have had much difficulty in keeping order in the city without causing a rupture with the Bulgarians. Numerous cases of friction Occurred. In Vienna it is reported that three thousand Greeks attempted to enter Seres, On the railway from Salonika to Constantinople, but the Bulgarians repelled them, killing 250. RUSSIAN INTIMATION WILL NOT RECOGNISE ALBANIAN INDEPENDEXCE. (Received December 5, 8.10 a.m.) ' VIENNA, 4th December. The Neve Freie PreSse states that M. Giers (Russian Ambassador in AustriaHungary), has _ informed the Grand Vizier that Russia will not recognise Albanian independence but will only agree to an autonomous province under an international guarantee. ADRIANOPLE SULTAN , CANNOT RENOUNCE IT. ' a mokammedTn sanctuary. CONSTANTINOPLE, 4th Dec. The Sultan has telegraphed to King Terdinand of Bulgaria, stating that though prompted by the most peaceful motives lie is unable to renounce Adria* hople, which all Turks consider a Mohammedan sanctuary. RUSSIAN MONEY FOR BULGARIA. (Received December 5, 8,10 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 4th Dec. The Novoe Vremya states that three Russian banks have advanced Bulgaria a million sterling. NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE. (Received December 5, 10 a.m.) x PARIS, 4th December. It is denied that Prince Henry of Prussia's visit to England has any poli' tical significance.