KUMANOVA FALLS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8262, 26 October 1912, Page 5

KUMANOVA FALLS

SERBS SUFFER SET-BACK IN THE

NORTH.

LONDON, October 24.

Reports have been received that desperate fighting is proceeding at Kumanova, sixteen miles north-east of Uskub. Both sides claim victories. Great slaughter occurred during the fighting at Novibazar. chief town of the sanjak of that name, and which is reported to have fallen to the Servians. Mr E. Ashmcad-Bartlctt, a "Daily Telegraph" correspondent, states that Zcki Pasha, with 30,000 men, routed four divisions of Servians north ot Kumanova. BATTERIES RAZED. BELGRADE, October 24 A portion of the Servian Army entered Kumanova after annihilating the Turkish batteries. PLBVIJE BACKED. , VIENNA, October 21. A telegram from Scrajcvo (Bosnia) states that the Montenegrins have burned Plevije, in Kossovo. MACEDONIAN REFUGEES. LONDON, October 24. Tho Bulgarian Legation hero states that 5000 Macedonians have taken refuge in Bulgaria, alleging massacres and burnings by the Turks. SMYRNA TRAIN WRECK. LONDON, October 24. The disaster at Ephesus to the Smyrna-bound train, which resulted in the killing of 200 Turkish soldiers and injury to 200 others, is now attribute! to Macedonian emissaries sent to A .via • iiiinnr to impede the oispatch of Asiatic troops to tho front. POWDER HELD UP. VIENNA, October 24. It is reported that the delivery ot twenty-sight truckloads of powder for Bulgaria has been stopped. TRAITORS SHOT. SOFIA, October 24. A Red Cross hospital nurse was shot for selling information to tho Turks, A Government official who gave a receipt for forty tons of cheese when he had only bought thirty, was also shot. "A PARCEL OF BANDITS!" LONDON. October 24. The "Pall Mall Gazette's" Berlin correspondent states that German opinion strongly sides with the Turks, and views uie Balkan Allies as a parcel of bandits instigated by Russia, while England is credited with playing for Crete, or at feast Suda Bay, in tho north of Crete.