THE SPOIL OF KIRK KILISSE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 29 October 1912, Page 5

THE SPOIL OF KIRK KILISSE.

BULGARIANS' GREAT HAUL

| SOFIA, Oct. 27. ! The Bulgarian spoil at Kirk Kilisse included seven batteries of quickfirers with ammunition waggons, 18 field guns, twejtve howitzers, provisions, and tents.

Mukhtar Pasha, when fleeing, abandoned a portion of his private baggage. Twelve hundred Turkish soldiers at Kirk Kilisso are prisoners.

Gen. Ivanoff is steadily closing the Bulgarian cordon round Adrianople and is, strengthening his positions by earthworks. There was a heavy bombardment from the north-west and a fresh sortie was made by the Turks towards Arnaut Koej, but it was repulsed, the Turks suffering heavily. The Bulgarians at Kirdjaali seized a million cartridges, many shells, and quantities of food. The Bulgarians operating in the Bregalnilza valley had a sanguinary encounter, but captured Kochana, together with a hundred prisoners, a battery of field artillery, a mountain battery .and a quantity of ammunition.

Tho population in the Djumaya district are in full revolt against the Turks, and the Bulgarians' hands are being greatly strengthened by parties of well-equipped peasants who have sent their cattle to Bulgaria. They also ruined their corn crops in order to prevent tho Turks capturing them.

Professor Claimont's Austrian ambulance section has arrived. It consists of five well-known doctors (including two military doctors), and 14 nurses.