BATTLE OF MONASTIR

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 279, 23 November 1912, Page 2

BATTLE OF MONASTIR

A BLOODY ENCOUNTER

BELGRADE, Not. 21. The Turks armed the inhabitants of Monastic, and the latter fought with great ferocity, inflicting heavy rasas on the Servians. The fighting j itte covered 30 miles, and tho battle Mated four days, and indkuied the most bloodx, encounters of the vrar. Th« Turks made desperate counterattacks, bnt ir«e continually re■ulaed. When tha Servians captured Ihe h«igjhte, th<» Turks, with a final «flfort, broke through the cordon and escaped to OchridA. Prisoners etat» that 80,000 Ttirks were engaged, and tho Seivians ' estimate that 20.000 Turks were killed I and wounded. j