TURKS STILL FIGHTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15142, 5 November 1912, Page 7

TURKS STILL FIGHTING.

ANOTHER DEFEAT BY , THE BULGARIANS. MAKING A FINAL STAND. WEAKNESS ' OF TURKISH OFFICERS. Sofia, November 3.'' The remnant of the Turkish army is making a stand between Tchorlu, on the railway about 100 miles from Constantinople (and 60 miles west of the capital in a direct line), and Serai, 20 miles further to the north.

It is reported that the Bulgarians have surrounded Shevket , Torgut Pasha's division in the heights east of Serai, in the Istranclja Dagh Mountains,

After a desperate fight, the Turks broke through and fled to Chataldja, about 20 miles from Constantinople.

The Reichpost publishes an account of the heroic assaults on the Turkish centre at Kavakdere during, the second day of the Bunar Hissar battle.

Undismayed and unshaken by the appalling Turkish fire, the Bulgarians captured the heights at the fourth charge. Efforts made in Berlin have failed to extract from Field-Marshal Von der Golz the reason for the failure of his Turkish pupils. German experts say that the fault does not lie with the tactical lessons, but in the wretched individual work of the officers.

Twelve thousand wounded soldiers from the battlefields have arrived in Constantinople from the scenes of the recent battles.

A bomb exploded in the Government, Department at Dimotika (south of Adrianople), causing much damage.

The Bulgarians, during the battle of Lule Burgas, captured 80 guns and 160 ammunition waggons.