ORDER RESTORED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 April 1913, Page 5

ORDER RESTORED.

TURKISH LOSSES. ESTIMATED AT 10,000. (Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.) ADRIANOPLE, March 31. General Ivanoff hag restored order in the city. The Turkish looses are estimated « f 10,000. BULGARIANS AND SERVIANS r UNDER FIRE. HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. (Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.) .->• BELGRADE, March 31. Servian soldiers" state that the sufferings of the Adrianople besiegers were the worst in January and Febmary, 'when there was six feet of snow. Many were frost-bitten in, the sharp ice, but they stormed the first entrenchment and captured eright bundired while three thousand Turks Surrendered <W> they wrere unable to advance, owing to the concentrated fire;;, from three foits. They remained entrenched at .night, after which three attempts were made storm Rapastepe by (scaling the ••vulje, under the fire of twenty-four Turkish machine guns. Pap'astepe wag captured on Wednesday morning. r .. '••• • -, ' Early on Tuesday the Danubian division wa.s within five hundred yards, when the Turfci discovered them. A terrible fuisilade from machine guns forced the''Servians to entrench under fire, one battalion losing .thirty per cent., though the Turkish fire lacked precision. The Danubians at eleven o'clock at night, renewed the attack, though the Bulgarians at first refused, owing to their terrible losses. Servian bomib-throwens, with officers,' ten pace s in front of the companies, crept cat-like. The Turks discovered them' when too ' late, and the 'bomb-throwers rushed the trenches. The Turks were reinforced, aji<J expelled the Bulgarians, who lost all their officers. Commanded by non-commissioned officers, the Bulgarian retirement was exposed. The Servians, who retreated to Maritza, were unable to escape, owing to a bridge being broken. Meanwhile the Timok division was :n a serious plight at Fort Sepelar. When five hundred ya,rds distant the mines exploded, killing hundreds. A regiment of Bulgarians retreated;, leaving the Servian salone, and in great danger. The Turks brought eight machine guns within fifty yards, and thrice counter attacked, until they were forced on Wednesday to fire the stores and ammunition and abandon Fort Sepelar.