25,000 TURKS WERE ENGAGED.
i TURKS LOSE 5,000. Received 5 p.m., October 27. BELGRADE, October 25. i Details of tho fighting round Kumanovo show that 25,000 Turks were engaged in the conflict, which was continui ous throughout Tuesday and Wednesday i and part of Thursday. Tho Crown Princo Alexander led the • ; Servians, and captured twelve guns and ■ i an enormous amount of ammunition. ■ I It is reported that tho Turks lost ! 5,000. j , (Kumanovo is a town in Turkey, 16 miles N.E. of TJskub. on the railway be- • tween TJskub and Nish, Servia. * It's population in 1905 was 14,500. The ; main road from Macedonia into Bulgar- ! ia leaves the lino of tho railway at Kumanovo.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 28 October 1912, Page 5
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