THE DEFENCE OF ADRIANOPLE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, October 28
Tho commander at Adrianople lias issued a proclamation that tho soldiers, having heroically dono their duty outside tho town, must now defend tho town n« their fathers defended Plevna.
Military authorities declare- that Aclrianoplo is impregnable. Frequent sallies inflict heavy loss on the Bulgarians.
A portion of tho Adrianople garrison has retreated to Dimotika.
(Adrianople, capital of tho province of Adrianople, Turkey; 137 miles by rail from Constantinonlo. about 20 miles 1>" rail from Bulgarian frontier. Pop. (1905) about 80,000', of whom half are Turks1, and half Greeks, Jews, Bulgars. Armenians, etc. Adrianonlo 'ranks, after Constantinople and Salonika, as the third city of European Turkey. It is the chief fortress near tho Bulgarian frontier, being defended by a ring -of powerful modern f^rts. Tt occupies both banks nf tho r'ver Tnn'a at its confluence with tho Maritza, which is navigable to this point. Tn appearance it is thoromrhly Onental —a rna^s of mean, irregular bii'ldings threaded by narrow, tort nous *tre?t<s with a. fow hotter buildin as. Tlio city h;is an active general trade, 'find t^o surrounding country "s extremely fertile.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 30 October 1912, Page 5
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