MORE STORIES OF MASSACRE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8264, 29 October 1912, Page 1

MORE STORIES OF MASSACRE

TURKS FLEE IN DISORDER BEFORE THE SERVIANS. BELGRADE, October 28. Tho Turkish prisoners nom Rumanovu ore in a pinnule couuiuoa. Many are bootless. A witness of the massacres describes the finding of eleven persons in one house with their throats out, including one woman. Two thousand Servian volunteers fought beside the regulars. The Servians' entry prevented the massacring of Servian notables imprisoned in Kumanova. Prior to the fighting the Turks butchered Servian peasants requisitioned ae transport drivers. The Turks at Uskub were seized with panic and retired in disorder before the Crown Prince’s army. Prisoners report that their comrades had been foodiess for two days. The Turks are now retiring towards According to private advices the Czar has congratulated King Peter on the capture of Uskub. , Albanians are surrendering as the Servians advance. When Prishtina was occupied a Servian sentinel was ordered to guard the Sultan Murad’s tomb. . , _ . The Servians have occupied i onzovitoh, a stragetic position commanding the Kotchanik Pass. WITH THE BULGARS TO ISHTIB. HOSPITALS FULL OF TURKISH WOUNDED. ' A QUEEN AS NURSE. (Received October 29, 1 a*m.) SOFIA, October 28. ■ Tho Bulgarians found the KochanaIshtib road littered with discarded Turk, ish clothing. , , , Torrential rain and boggy roads greatly impeded tho advance. . Qu-een Eleonora, dressed as a Red Cross nuree, spends many hours daily in the military hospitals at Philippopolis, assisting in dressing wounds. Corpses of Bulgarian soldiers captured by the Turks have been found with their noses and ears cut off and deep knife outs on the bodies. The Turks leave their own killed and wounded on the battlefield, and the latter are nowbeing treated in the Bulgarian hospitals, which are overflowing with woupded Turkish officers and men.

A Bulgarian officer's divorced wife was conrtmartialled on a charge of espionage, and shot with two Macedonian spies on proofs of her complicity being found. Fugitives from Vlahi, twenty-eight miles southward of the border, report that the Turks before retiring when tho Bulgarians approached massacred a hundred inhabitants. ,