BULGARIAN ACTIVITIES
KEEP TURKS BUSY MOVING BACK
WARD
SOFIA. October 23.
It is officially announced that there is fighting to-day along the whole front. The Bulgarians reached the Arda redoubt, westward, of Adrianople, The Turks fled in disorder, leaving a hundred dead. Several advanced positions northward of Adrianople were captured after furious fighting, tho Turks fleeing precipitately, and leaving many dead behind. When tho fighting was at the heaviest in tho north-east, a Turkish force made a sortie and was annihilated. Starting from Mustafa Pasha an aeroplane made a flight in the direction of Adrianople. Turkish outposts failed to hit it, and it made half an hour’s reconnaissance and returned to safety. Bulgarian troops have occupied Vasiliko, a small coast town in the province of Kirk Kilisseh and 80 miles southeast by , south of Burgas, and are advancing along the coast preparatory to moving inland on Visa (a Turkish town about 30 miles eastward of Kirk Kilioseh and 75 miles north-west of Constantinople). TURKISH WARSHIPS LEAVE BLACK SEA PORTS. CONSTANTINOPLE, .October 23. The Turkish cruiser fleet has returned to the Bosporus, leaving tho torpedo flotilla to blockade Bulgarian ports.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8261, 25 October 1912, Page 1
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