TURKISH FORCE TRAPPED IN A PASS.
' ' .., ' - —... . - ' • BLOWING UP OF A BRIDGE. ' < THOUBAND MEN AND FOUR GONS CAPTURCO. - . (Spired October 23, 10.15 : Qcfcober 2». • A later message from Sofia states that a Turkish force, which was- : - advancing to relieve • Djumabala, e itered . the .Kresna Pass without: being aware of the presence of 2000 insurgents, who blew up thel bridge over the Struma at the foot of the pass. Confusion followed, and many Turks were drowned. ! " , , A thousand' officers _ and. men and three Krupp guns and one machine gun were captured. || vV/ l- v *\t; '. r ; Voidadontch, the so-called King of Purine carried out the exploit. -•* > ,r % |. * '; r ,"> : * ?TUKKISH ; ,VEEgWN:!O'r4HE • PASS INCIDENT. :"■ ; THE BULGARIANS PRACTICALLY : EXTERMINATED, (Becciyed October 23, 10.30 October 231 , -official report from Constantinople, states that seVeral thousand Bulgarian irregulars in the Djumabala district ' concentrated in the • Kresna Pass fetid burnt '/the. villages to prevent the approach of the Turks. 1 ! '.; ; ■■ *" _ ' " The Turks, it is stated, surrounded, the ' bands . and practically exterminated them; v ,' ' r V W '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15132, 24 October 1912, Page 7
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